New Delhi: Passenger flights between the UK and India would remain suspended till January 7 and they will resume in a strictly regulated manner thereafter, Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Wednesday.
The Civil Aviation Ministry had last week suspended all flights between the European country and India from December 23 to December 31 as a mutated variant of the coronavirus was detected there.
Puri s announcement has come following a recommendation by the Union Health Ministry to extend the suspension of India-UK flights till January 7.
Puri said on Twitter: Decision has been taken to extend the temporary suspension of flights to & from the UK till 7 January 2021.
New strain of Corona frightened whole world
The fear of the emergence of a new strain of corona has created new tensions and worries in the world.
Lalit Garg
(The writer is a journalist and columnist. He can be reached at lalitgarg11@gmail.com)
The fear of the emergence of a new strain of corona has created new tensions and worries in the world. Concern has also increased because there is a possibility of the rapid spread of this alleged new type of epidemic. The question is whether the apprehensions, anxieties, panic-tense situations are real or blank is imaginary. Whatever the situation, the world needs to be vigilant and careful. Just as we fought the Corona epidemic and defeated it, in the same way, the new form of Corona will also have to be defeated with full morale, patience, determination and restraint, somewhere our fear, tension and cheeky fantasies are the reason for the rise of this epidemic.
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NEW DELHI, Dec 21: The Government is fully alert and there is no need to panic, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said today amid concerns over the emergence of a new Coronavirus strain in the UK.
The Union Health Ministry has called an urgent meeting of its Joint Monitoring Group today to discuss the new strain, which has led to a surge in the infection rate in the UK.
“The Government is fully alert about everything. If you ask me, there is no reason to panic the way we are seeing in this press conference,” the Minister said.
He said the Government had done everything that was important to handle the COVID-19 situation in the last one year. The scientific community, he added, had very ably risen to the occasion, continuously striving and contributing to whatever was needed to combat and understand any aspect of COVID-19.
Updated Dec 22, 2020 | 16:54 IST
Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said that there has been a decrease in average daily new cases in the past seven weeks. Representational Image | Photo Credit: PTI
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New Delhi: The active COVID-19 caseload in the country has slumped below the three lakh-mark after more than five months, Health Ministry said on Tuesday.