{"id":411460,"date":"2021-04-22T10:12:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T04:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=411460"},"modified":"2021-04-22T11:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T05:52:19","slug":"britains-heathrow-airport-turns-down-requests-for-extra-flights-from-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/britains-heathrow-airport-turns-down-requests-for-extra-flights-from-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s Heathrow Airport turns down requests for extra flights from India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Heathrow Airport has refused to allow extra flights from India before the country is added on Friday to Britain&#8217;s &#8220;red-list&#8221; of locations from which most travel is banned due to a high number of COVID-19 cases, the airport said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The move by Britain comes after it detected more than 100 cases of a coronavirus variant first identified in India, Health Minister Matt Hancock said on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve made the difficult but vital decision to add India to the Red List. This means anyone who is not a UK or Irish resident or a British citizen cannot enter the UK if they&#8217;ve been in India in the previous 10 days,&#8221; Hancock had told parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Heathrow Airport has refused to allow extra flights from India before the country is added on Friday to Britain&#8217;s &#8220;red-list&#8221; of locations from which most travel is banned due to a high number of COVID-19 cases, the airport said on Wednesday. The move by Britain comes after it detected more than 100 cases of a coronavirus variant first identified in India, Health Minister Matt Hancock said on Monday. &#8220;We&#8217;ve made the difficult but vital decision to add India to the Red List. This means anyone who is not a UK or Irish resident or a British citizen cannot enter [&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":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411460","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\/411460","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=411460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}