{"id":415765,"date":"2021-05-19T10:09:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T04:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=415765"},"modified":"2021-05-19T10:52:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T05:22:40","slug":"govt-taking-precautions-hardeep-singh-puri-on-new-covid-variant-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-taking-precautions-hardeep-singh-puri-on-new-covid-variant-in-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Govt taking precautions&#8217;: Hardeep Singh Puri on new Covid variant in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hours after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal urged the Centre to ban flights to and from Singapore in view of a new Covid variant, Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said the Centre is taking all precautions and keeping an eye on the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to Kejriwal on Twitter, Puri said, &#8220;Kejriwal ji, all international flights have been stopped since March 2020. We have no air bubble with Singapore either.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Only a few flights are being operated between the two countries under Vande Bharat Mission to bring stranded Indians back, Puri added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are still keeping an eye on the situation. All precautions are being taken,&#8221; the Union Aviation Minister noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hours after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal urged the Centre to ban flights to and from Singapore in view of a new Covid variant, Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said the Centre is taking all precautions and keeping an eye on the situation. Responding to Kejriwal on Twitter, Puri said, &#8220;Kejriwal ji, all international flights have been stopped since March 2020. We have no air bubble with Singapore either.&#8221; Only a few flights are being operated between the two countries under Vande Bharat Mission to bring stranded Indians back, Puri added. &#8220;We are still keeping an eye on the situation. [&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-415765","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\/415765","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=415765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}