{"id":379749,"date":"2020-10-21T12:01:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T06:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=379749"},"modified":"2020-10-21T12:44:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T07:14:38","slug":"covid-test-rule-changed-for-fliers-from-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/covid-test-rule-changed-for-fliers-from-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid test rule changed for fliers from London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers on Air India\u2019s flight from London to Calcutta will no longer have to show a Covid negative certificate before boarding the aircraft but they will have to undergo a test and wait for about six hours after arriving here.<\/p>\n<p>The Calcutta airport authorities have created a waiting facility for such passengers at the old domestic terminal building that is lying unused. The facility has been created after the state government issued a revised SOP for passengers arriving from London.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers of the direct Air India flight from London not carrying a Covid-19 negative report \u201cwill be required to get an RT-PCR test conducted on payment basis from the state authorised designated testing facility at the airport,\u201d the new SOP stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers on Air India\u2019s flight from London to Calcutta will no longer have to show a Covid negative certificate before boarding the aircraft but they will have to undergo a test and wait for about six hours after arriving here. The Calcutta airport authorities have created a waiting facility for such passengers at the old domestic terminal building that is lying unused. The facility has been created after the state government issued a revised SOP for passengers arriving from London. Passengers of the direct Air India flight from London not carrying a Covid-19 negative report \u201cwill be required to get [&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-379749","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\/379749","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=379749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}