{"id":453001,"date":"2021-12-01T08:32:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T03:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=453001"},"modified":"2021-12-01T09:25:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T03:55:38","slug":"why-is-india-not-banning-international-flights-kejriwal-asks-pm-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/why-is-india-not-banning-international-flights-kejriwal-asks-pm-modi\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is India not banning international flights, Kejriwal asks PM Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of emergence of a new Covid-19 variant &#8212; Omicron, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ban international flights as most of them land in the national capital. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many countries have stopped incoming flights from Omicron-affected countries. Why are we not following their suit? In the first wave also, we had taken time to stop foreign flights,&#8221; Kejriwal said in a tweet, adding that most of the foreign flights come to Delhi, which is the most affected state. <\/p>\n<p>He requested the prime minister to &#8220;kindly stop flights immediately.&#8221; The AAP leader had quoted a media report: &#8220;A South Africa returnee has tested positive for COVID-19 in Chandigarh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of emergence of a new Covid-19 variant &#8212; Omicron, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ban international flights as most of them land in the national capital. &#8220;Many countries have stopped incoming flights from Omicron-affected countries. Why are we not following their suit? In the first wave also, we had taken time to stop foreign flights,&#8221; Kejriwal said in a tweet, adding that most of the foreign flights come to Delhi, which is the most affected state. He requested the prime minister to &#8220;kindly stop flights immediately.&#8221; The AAP leader [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453001","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=453001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}