NEW DELHI: The Association of Private Airport Operators (APAO) has asked the health ministry to include all airport employees in the priority list for Covid vaccination drive \u201cto ensure the wellbeing of both the staff members as well as the traveling public.\u201d
\nPointing out that people working at airports \u201chave been frontline warriors \u2026 even as they faced dual risks of infection and social ostracism given the panic in the broader society during the time (early months of Covid),\u201d the association has told the government \u201cinoculating airport staff would help minimise possible risk of infection during air travel due to asymptomatic carriers.\u201d
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\nScheduled domestic air travel is beginning to revive and international operations are happening under air bubble arrangements wither 20 countries and Vande Bharat Mission. \u201cWith the government\u2019s focus on unlocking the broader economy, there has been an increasing trend in air travel as well\u2026 daily footfalls at the nation\u2019s airports (are) consistently exceeding 4 lakh in recent days,\u201d APAO secretary-general Satyan Nayar has said in a letter to Union health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: The Association of Private Airport Operators (APAO) has asked the health ministry to include all airport employees in the priority list for Covid vaccination drive \u201cto ensure the wellbeing of both the staff members as well as the traveling public.\u201d Pointing out that people working at airports \u201chave been frontline warriors \u2026 even as they faced dual risks of infection and social ostracism given the panic in the broader society during the time (early months of Covid),\u201d the association has told the government \u201cinoculating airport staff would help minimise possible risk of infection during air travel due to […]<\/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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396539","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=396539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}