{"id":392418,"date":"2020-12-30T16:23:24","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T10:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=392418"},"modified":"2020-12-30T16:23:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T10:53:24","slug":"india-extends-ban-on-uk-flights-till-jan-7-details-to-be-announced-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-extends-ban-on-uk-flights-till-jan-7-details-to-be-announced-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"India extends ban on UK flights till Jan 7, details to be announced soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India has extended the ban on UK flights till January 7, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thereafter strictly regulated resumption will take place for which details will be announced shortly,&#8221; Puri said in a tweet. There are over 60 weekly flights between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>The government suspended flights to\/from the UK from December 24 for one week to prevent the entry of the new variant of Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>This was followed by tracking and testing of 33,000 passengers who returned to India between November 24-December 23. As of now 20 cases of the new variant have been detected among the returnees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has extended the ban on UK flights till January 7, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri announced on Wednesday. &#8220;Thereafter strictly regulated resumption will take place for which details will be announced shortly,&#8221; Puri said in a tweet. There are over 60 weekly flights between the two countries. The government suspended flights to\/from the UK from December 24 for one week to prevent the entry of the new variant of Covid-19. This was followed by tracking and testing of 33,000 passengers who returned to India between November 24-December 23. As of now 20 cases of the new variant have [&hellip;]<\/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-392418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392418","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=392418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}