Inside govt plan to tackle new coronavirus variants Sunday May 02 2021 Travellers wait to board their respective flights at Entebbe International Airport on October 1, 2020, after government relaxed travel restrictions that had been imposed due to Covid-19. Photo/ABUBAKER LUBOWA Summary Advertisement In a bid to prevent the spread of new and more deadly variants of Covid-19, the government has suspended all passenger flights from India effective Friday midnight until further notice. Based on the current trend of the Covid-19 resurgence, the Health ministry is categorising countries in relation to the Covid-19 risk they pose. The countries have been categorised according to the presence of variants of concern, high rate of transmission of the disease and number of deaths reported.