{"id":374845,"date":"2020-09-23T11:25:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T05:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=374845"},"modified":"2020-09-23T12:22:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T06:52:58","slug":"hong-kong-suspends-air-indias-incoming-flights-after-string-of-covid-positive-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/hong-kong-suspends-air-indias-incoming-flights-after-string-of-covid-positive-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong suspends Air India\u2019s incoming flights after string of Covid-positive cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when India is negotiating setting up of air bubbles to gradually scale up international flight operations from the country, state-owned airlines Air India and its low-cost subsidiary Air India Express are witnessing flight suspensions for carrying Covid-19 positive passengers on at least four different flights.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest development, the Hong Kong administration has banned Air India from flying to its airport for two weeks till October 3 after six passengers, from Delhi into Hong Kong on a September 18 Air India flight, tested positive upon arrival. This was preceded by Air India Express flying one passenger each to Dubai from Delhi and Jaipur on August 28 and September 4, respectively, with Covid-19 positive test certificates. Prior to this, Air India carried 11 Covid-19 positive passengers on a single flight from Delhi to Hong Kong on August 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when India is negotiating setting up of air bubbles to gradually scale up international flight operations from the country, state-owned airlines Air India and its low-cost subsidiary Air India Express are witnessing flight suspensions for carrying Covid-19 positive passengers on at least four different flights. In the latest development, the Hong Kong administration has banned Air India from flying to its airport for two weeks till October 3 after six passengers, from Delhi into Hong Kong on a September 18 Air India flight, tested positive upon arrival. This was preceded by Air India Express flying one passenger [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374845","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=374845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}