{"id":390787,"date":"2020-12-22T11:08:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T05:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=390787"},"modified":"2020-12-22T11:08:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T05:38:23","slug":"india-suspends-all-uk-flights-till-31-december-fearing-mutated-coronavirus-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-suspends-all-uk-flights-till-31-december-fearing-mutated-coronavirus-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"India suspends all UK flights till 31 December fearing mutated coronavirus variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : The Indian government on Monday banned all flights originating from the United Kingdom till 31 December, due to the spread of a new strain of coronavirus identified in the European country, which is considered up to 70% more infectious than the original strain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Considering the prevailing situation in the UK, (the) Govt. of India has decided that all flights originating from UK to India (will be) suspended till 31st December 2020 (23.59 hours),&#8221; the ministry of civil aviation said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This suspension to start w.e.f. 23.59 hours, 22nd December 2020. Consequently flights from India to UK shall stand temporarily suspended during (the) above said period,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : The Indian government on Monday banned all flights originating from the United Kingdom till 31 December, due to the spread of a new strain of coronavirus identified in the European country, which is considered up to 70% more infectious than the original strain. &#8220;Considering the prevailing situation in the UK, (the) Govt. of India has decided that all flights originating from UK to India (will be) suspended till 31st December 2020 (23.59 hours),&#8221; the ministry of civil aviation said in a tweet. &#8220;This suspension to start w.e.f. 23.59 hours, 22nd December 2020. Consequently flights from India to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390787","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}