Ranchi: Following a recent spike in cases being reported in Maharashtra and in Kerala, the state government has decided to test all incoming passengers at airports and railway stations for Covid-19. “We have already installed testing facilities at airports and railway stations as per government orders. If required, we might ramp up testing in other areas of the state as well,” Dr Ravishankar Shukla, MD (Jharkhand unit) of National Health Mission, said on Friday.
In addition to this, the state health department is also planning to roll out fresh and modified protocols to keep the infection spread in check before the relaxations announced by chief minister Hemant Soren on Thursday come into effect from March 1. The proposed modification in protocols might include increased testing in several districts and announcement of additional precautions for containing the spread, sources said.
E484K is the new variant of coronavirus which is found in Japan. Variants of this new strain is claimed to have come from overseas while 2 fresh cases also have been found at the airport. Talking about COVID-19, Japan has till now 400,000 cases of the epidemic and over 7000 deaths.
Air Force Training Jet Crashes in Alabama, Killing 2
The T-38 was assigned to the 14th Flying Training Wing at Columbus Air Force Base in Mississippi and went down in a wooded area near the Montgomery Regional Airport, officials said.
Firefighters approached the site of a military plane crash near Montgomery, Ala., on Friday evening.Credit.WSFA
Feb. 19, 2021
An Air Force training plane flying from Columbus, Miss., to Tallahassee, Fla., crashed in a wooded area near the Montgomery Regional Airport in Alabama on Friday evening, killing the two people aboard, officials said.
It was not immediately clear what had caused the plane to crash. It was a T-38 trainer aircraft assigned to the 14th Flying Training Wing, which is based at Columbus Air Force Base in Mississippi, the Wing said in a statement.
Copa Airlines to increase flights between Panama and Venezuela
Copa Airlines to increase flights between Panama and Venezuela
Text and FotosPL: Osvaldo Rodríguez
Panama, Feb 20 (Prensa Latina) Copa Airlines informed here on Saturday that, as part of the resumption of its operations in Venezuela, it will resume flights between Panama City and Maracaibo as of March 2 and double the number of its flights to Valencia. The Civil Aeronautics National Institute of Venezuela (INAC) authorized the airline to carry out two flights a week, in both directions, that will connect La Chinita International Airport, in Maracaibo, with Tocumen International Airport, in this capital, and will increase to two the flights the route to Arturo Michelena Airport in Valencia, Copa Airlines revealed in a press release.