{"id":367259,"date":"2020-08-11T09:24:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T03:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=367259"},"modified":"2020-08-11T09:36:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T04:06:29","slug":"coronavirus-flights-suspended-from-six-cities-to-kolkata-till-august-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coronavirus-flights-suspended-from-six-cities-to-kolkata-till-august-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Flights suspended from six cities to Kolkata till August 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to contain the novel coronavirus in Kolkata, the West Bengal government has extended the suspension of flights from six major cities&#8211; Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Pune, Nagpur and Ahmedabad till August 31. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kindly refer to my earlier letter no. 371\/HS\/PA\/20 dated 3-07-20 under reference to Chief Secretary&#8217;s letter No 282-CS\/2020 dated 17-7-20 regarding the suspension of flights to Kolkata from High Covid prevalence cities (vis, Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Chennai and Ahmedabad). I am further directed to inform you that the suspension of flights from the aforesaid cities to Kolkata will continue till 31st August 2020,&#8221; the letter from Home Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay reads. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Union Health Ministry, West Bengal has so far recorded 26,375 number of Covid-19 cases. Out of the total, 15,35,743 have been migrated and 2,059 have died after contracting the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to contain the novel coronavirus in Kolkata, the West Bengal government has extended the suspension of flights from six major cities&#8211; Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Pune, Nagpur and Ahmedabad till August 31. &#8220;Kindly refer to my earlier letter no. 371\/HS\/PA\/20 dated 3-07-20 under reference to Chief Secretary&#8217;s letter No 282-CS\/2020 dated 17-7-20 regarding the suspension of flights to Kolkata from High Covid prevalence cities (vis, Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Chennai and Ahmedabad). I am further directed to inform you that the suspension of flights from the aforesaid cities to Kolkata will continue till 31st August 2020,&#8221; the letter [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367259","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=367259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}