{"id":340384,"date":"2020-03-04T12:46:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T07:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=340384"},"modified":"2020-03-04T12:46:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T07:16:34","slug":"dgca-orders-airlines-airports-to-take-specific-measures-to-combat-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dgca-orders-airlines-airports-to-take-specific-measures-to-combat-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA orders airlines, airports to take specific measures to combat coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) asked airlines and airports on Tuesday to equip ground handling staff, aircraft crew members, and other staff with protective gear such as surgical masks and gloves to protect themselves from the corona virus (COVID-19). It added that passengers should also be provided with personnel protective equipment (PPE) inside the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Airports and airlines have also been ordered to ensure that each aircraft arriving from South Korea, Japan and Italy are properly disinfected before the boarding begins for the next flight. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll ground handling staff entering inbound and outbound international flights shall be provided with personnel protective equipments (PPEs) and such PPEs shall be disposed of&#8230; after each flight,\u201d the circular said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) asked airlines and airports on Tuesday to equip ground handling staff, aircraft crew members, and other staff with protective gear such as surgical masks and gloves to protect themselves from the corona virus (COVID-19). It added that passengers should also be provided with personnel protective equipment (PPE) inside the aircraft. Airports and airlines have also been ordered to ensure that each aircraft arriving from South Korea, Japan and Italy are properly disinfected before the boarding begins for the next flight. \u201cAll ground handling staff entering inbound and outbound international flights shall be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}