Suspension of flights with Portugal is absurd decision by the UK By TPN/Lusa, in News · 15-01-2021 11:28:00 · 5 Comments
Portuguese Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva considered, on 15 Januar, the United Kingdom s decision to suspend flights with Portugal absurd and illogical , a sudden and unexpected measure whose grounds he said he did not know.
In our opinion, this is illogical. In the first place it is a sudden and unexpected measure and this is a first element of negative surprise. Secondly, it is a measure that hits hard on people who have not been properly warned. It was announced at 5pmon one day to come into force at 4am the next , said the head of Portuguese diplomacy.
PMC intensifies contact tracing of patient +ve with new COVID strain
ByVicky PathareVicky Pathare / Updated: Jan 6, 2021, 06:00 IST
Following discovery of the new variant in London, the Indian government had banned air travel to and from the UK since December 23 (FILE PHOTO)
Civic body wrote to the director of health services, asking details of all the co-travellers in the flight.
The state health department is on its toes to ensure that the new
COVID strain reported from the United Kingdom doesn’t spread in the state. They are getting to every contact of the travellers who have tested positive for it. The urgency has dominated the scenario as the new strain is deemed highly infectious and transmissible. The health officials, however, have calmed the subsequent panic by stating that the viruses are known to mutate.