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India to lift ban on UK flights from 8 Jan in a limited manner amid new Covid strain: Details here
Passengers wearing protective face masks wait to exit upon arrival at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport after India cancelled all flights from the UK.
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India on Friday said that it has decided to lift the temporary ban on flights from the UK and will resume operations from 8 January in a limited manner amid concerns of the new and highly infectious covid-19 strain spread, which was first identified in Britain.
New Delhi, December 30
The government on Wednesday announced extension of the temporary suspension of passenger flights between India and the UK till January 7. Thereafter, they will resume their operations under a “strictly regulated” scheme.
Announcing this, Minister for Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri in a Twitter post said, “Decision has been taken to extend the temporary suspension of flights to & from the UK till January 7, 2021.”
The Minister went on to add that thereafter “strictly regulated resumption will take place for which details will be announced shortly”.
The Civil Aviation Ministry had last week suspended all flights between the UK and India from December 23 to 31 as a mutated variant of the coronavirus was detected there.
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By ITV News Producer in Delhi
India has banned all flights from the UK until the end of the year after the discovery of a new and more infectious variant of coronavirus in south-east England.
The ban will come into effect from midnight on Tuesday until December 31.
People arriving in India before then will be subject to a mandatory Covid test at the airport.
Indian minister of Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri said in a series of tweets that if any arrivals in India had the new Covid variant, it could pose a critical risk to people in the country.
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