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India extends UK flights ban till Jan 7, 2021 over new Coronavirus strain
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India extends UK flights ban till Jan 7, 2021 over new Coronavirus strain

| @indiablooms | 30 Dec 2020, 11:40 am

New Delhi/IBNS: The central government on Wednesday extended the suspension of India-UK flight services till Jan 7, 2021 in the wake of the new Coronavirus strain that broke out first in Britain.

After Jan 7, the flight services will resume but with strict regulations.

India's Aviation Minister Hardeep Puri tweeted, "Decision has been taken to extend the temporary suspension of flights to & from the UK till 7 January 2021. Thereafter strictly regulated resumption will take place for which details will be announced shortly."

The flights to and from the UK were earlier banned till Dec 31, 2020.

With 14 more people detected with the new coronavirus strain, the total number of such cases in India rose to 20, the government said on Wednesday morning.

The Union Health Ministry said that the UK returnees' swab samples, who came between November 25 and December 23 and were tested positive for the virus, were sent to different labs of Insacog for further investigation.

So far, 6 out of 10 labs have tested the swabs. Highest eight samples tested positive in Delhi-- eight in NCDC, Delhi & one in IGIB, Delhi-- followed by seven samples in NIMHANS, Bengaluru, two in CCMB, Hyderabad, one in NIV, Pune and one in NIBG, Kalyani (West Bengal).

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