Nitish requests Centre to begin night ops at Darbhanga airport
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Patna, Dec 23 : Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has appealed to Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri to enable night operations at the newly-opened Darbhanga airport.
Darbhanga airport, which began operations on November 8, does not have facilities for night landing and take-off.
In a letter to Puri, a copy of which is with IANS, Nitish Kumar said that the deficiency bars operations at night as well as during fog in the winter season.
Passengers from UK rigorously traced, tested for COVID-19 symptoms: Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain
The Health Minister said that Delhi has fought difficult battles with coronavirus and that the government will ensure that all the progress made is not reversed due to the new strain
BusinessToday.In | December 23, 2020 | Updated 17:06 IST
Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said on Wednesday that people who have arrived from the UK are being rigorously traced and tested for coronavirus-like symptoms. Jain said that the situation is under control in Delhi with positivity rate dipping to below 1 per cent. He lauded the Centre s move to ban flights from the UK and said that it will help in containing the new strain.
Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Wednesday said people who have arrived here from the UK are being rigorously traced and tested for any COVID-19-like symptoms. He asserted that the coronavirus situation in the city is under control with the positivity rate plummeting to below one per cent. Interacting with reporters, Jain said the suspension of flights to and from the United Kingdom was a prompt move by the Centre and will help in containing the spread of the new coronavirus strain detected in that country. We are alert and watchful at our end. People who have arrived here from the UK in the last several days are being rigorously traced and tested for slightest of COVID-like symptoms, Jain said.
Genestrings is handling coronavirus testing of all passengers at the Delhi airport. In her statement, Agarwal said 50 passengers of the aforementioned four flights have been put under institutional quarantine. As a new coronavirus strain has emerged in the UK, the government on Monday ordered that all passengers coming from there would be tested on arrival at the Indian airports. Since this directive, a total of four UK flights have landed in Delhi, Agarwal said. The government on Monday said that if a passenger on UK-India flight is tested positive for COVID-19 on arrival, then passengers sitting in the same row, three rows ahead and three rows behind will also be put under institutional quarantine.
New coronavirus strain: Trace all who returned from abroad in last 15 days, says UP govt
The order came a day after the Centre announced the suspension of flights between India and the United Kingdom till the year-end following mounting concerns about a new, possibly more transmissible, strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19. December 23, 2020 5:08:46 am
At a high-level meeting organised at the Lok Bhawan, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said quarantine facilities for such people should be arranged along with a helpline number. (Representational)
The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday directed authorities to ensure contact tracing of those who entered the state from foreign countries in the last 15 days. The order came a day after the Centre announced the suspension of flights between India and the United Kingdom till the year-end following mounting concerns about a new, possibly more transmissible, strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus t