{"id":365371,"date":"2020-07-29T12:01:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T06:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=365371"},"modified":"2020-07-29T12:50:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T07:20:18","slug":"bengal-wants-6-city-flight-ban-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bengal-wants-6-city-flight-ban-to-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengal \u2018wants\u2019 6-city flight ban to stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state government is likely to seek continuation of the ban on flights from six cities of high Covid prevalence, including Delhi and Mumbai, to Calcutta beyond July 31, officials said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The government will also request the civil aviation ministry not to operate flights to and from Calcutta on the days of complete lockdown twice a week, the officials said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ban on flights from the six cities in all likelihood will continue because the Covid situation there has not improved. In Bengal, too, the count of fresh cases is not reducing. We will ask the central government for continuation of the ban,\u201d an official of the Bengal government said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state government is likely to seek continuation of the ban on flights from six cities of high Covid prevalence, including Delhi and Mumbai, to Calcutta beyond July 31, officials said on Tuesday. The government will also request the civil aviation ministry not to operate flights to and from Calcutta on the days of complete lockdown twice a week, the officials said. \u201cThe ban on flights from the six cities in all likelihood will continue because the Covid situation there has not improved. In Bengal, too, the count of fresh cases is not reducing. We will ask the central government [&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":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365371","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=365371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}