Flights between India and the United Kingdom, suspended since December 23 to check transmission of the new, more contagious strain of the novel coronavirus detected in that country, will resume on January 8, the government said on Friday evening.
There will be only 15 flights per week for the first two weeks, the government said.
Twenty-nine samples have so far tested positive for the UK variant of SARS-CoV-2 in India, the Union Health Ministry said on Friday.
“It has been decided that flights between India & the UK will resume from 8 Jan 2021. Operations till 23 Jan will be restricted to 15 flights per week each for carriers of the two countries to & from Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru & Hyderabad only. DGCA will issue the details shortly,” Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri posted on Twitter.
