{"id":351598,"date":"2020-05-16T11:02:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T05:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=351598"},"modified":"2020-05-16T11:18:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T05:48:27","slug":"need-to-wait-on-resuming-air-travel-niti-aayog-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/need-to-wait-on-resuming-air-travel-niti-aayog-member\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Need to wait on resuming air travel\u2019: Niti Aayog member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India needs to wait for flights to resume because the air that circulates inside the plane\u2019s pressurised cabin may be conducive to the spread of the coronavirus disease, a senior member of the government\u2019s team to combat Covid-19 said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The comments by Dr Vinod Paul, Niti Aayog member and head of the empowered group overseeing the Covid-19 medical emergency management plan, came even as a senior civil aviation ministry official told HT that the ministry was now ready to begin operations, which were suspended when a nationwide lockdown was clamped on March 25. International operations were stopped three days earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India needs to wait for flights to resume because the air that circulates inside the plane\u2019s pressurised cabin may be conducive to the spread of the coronavirus disease, a senior member of the government\u2019s team to combat Covid-19 said on Friday. The comments by Dr Vinod Paul, Niti Aayog member and head of the empowered group overseeing the Covid-19 medical emergency management plan, came even as a senior civil aviation ministry official told HT that the ministry was now ready to begin operations, which were suspended when a nationwide lockdown was clamped on March 25. International operations were stopped three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"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-351598","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\/351598","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}