As India discusses a possibility of banning flights from the UK in the light of a new fast-spreading variant of the coronavirus, a LocalCircles survey shows a large number of people want the government to suspend flights.<\/p>\n
However, a similar number of people also want the government to continue with flights from the infected countries but with restrictions.<\/p>\n
The survey, which interviewed 7000+ respondents in 203 districts, show about 50% asking for suspension of flights. However, about 41% want flights to continue with restrictions that include a mandatory 14-day quarantine for passengers arriving from infected countries.<\/p>\n
India does not currently mandate quarantine norms in case the passenger has a COVID negative report from his arriving country as well as tests negative for COVID upon arrival.<\/p>\n
Another 6% of the respondents seek no change in flights and continuation of flights from these countries.<\/p>\n
Countries across Europe, which include The Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, and Canada have banned travelers from the UK on Sunday, a day after the country ordered a wholesale lockdown on London and surrounding areas, citing concerns over spreading of the new variant of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n
Countries like the US and India are still discussing the possibility of banning flight connections with the UK.<\/p>\n
A senior Indian government official told ET that discussions are on. \u201cDiscussions are on\u2026 Let\u2019s see,\u201d the official said on a condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n
This new strain of virus has come at a time, when the Indian government is planning to start normal international flights with COVID infections in the country on a declining trend and start of vaccination in the UK and the US. India has also announced that the vaccine will be available from January next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As India discusses a possibility of banning flights from the UK in the light of a new fast-spreading variant of the coronavirus, a LocalCircles survey shows a large number of people want the government to suspend flights. However, a similar number of people also want the government to continue with flights from the infected countries but with restrictions. The survey, which interviewed 7000+ respondents in 203 districts, show about 50% asking for suspension of flights. However, about 41% want flights to continue with restrictions that include a mandatory 14-day quarantine for passengers arriving from infected countries. India does not currently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390683","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}