{"id":353230,"date":"2020-05-26T11:37:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T06:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=353230"},"modified":"2020-05-26T12:09:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T06:39:21","slug":"coronavirus-lockdown-maharashtra-says-no-to-opening-airports-in-red-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coronavirus-lockdown-maharashtra-says-no-to-opening-airports-in-red-zones\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Lockdown: Maharashtra says no to opening airports in red zones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Maharashtra government on Sunday reiterated that it would not be able to open airports in red zones for domestic flights from Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s extremely ill-advised to reopen airports in red zone,&#8221; state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said. <\/p>\n<p>Three big airports of Maharashtra &#8211; the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Airport in Mumbai, and the airports in Pune and Nagpur &#8211; all fall under red zone areas.<br \/>\n&#8220;Mere thermal scanning of passengers inadequate without swabs. Impossible to have buses,  taxis,  autos plying at this stage,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Adding a positive passenger will add to the COVID-19 stress to the red zone, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Getting passengers to come from a green zone to a red one will put them under the risk of exposure, doesn&#8217;t make sense,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maharashtra government on Sunday reiterated that it would not be able to open airports in red zones for domestic flights from Monday. &#8220;It&#8217;s extremely ill-advised to reopen airports in red zone,&#8221; state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said. Three big airports of Maharashtra &#8211; the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Airport in Mumbai, and the airports in Pune and Nagpur &#8211; all fall under red zone areas. &#8220;Mere thermal scanning of passengers inadequate without swabs. Impossible to have buses, taxis, autos plying at this stage,&#8221; he said. Adding a positive passenger will add to the COVID-19 stress to the red zone, he [&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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353230","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=353230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}