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India-UK flight service, suspended over mutant strain, to resume from Jan 8
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India-UK flight service, suspended over mutant strain, to resume from Jan 8

| @indiablooms | 01 Jan 2021, 09:34 pm

New Delhi/IBNS: The Civil Aviation Ministry on Friday announced that the India-UK flight service, which was suspended since Dec 23 over fears of the spread of the mutant coronavirus strain, will resume from Jan 8.

Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri in a tweet informed: "It has been decided that flights between India & UK will resume from 8 Jan 2021. Operations till 23 Jan will be restricted to 15 flights per week each for carriers of the two countries to & from Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru & Hyderabad only. @DGCAIndia  will issue the details shortly."

The Centre had initially announced the ban on air service between India and the UK from Dec 23 to Dec 31. It later extended the same up to Jan 7.

The new strain, which is believed to be 70 per cent more infectious, was first detected in the United Kingdom in September.

The strain was first detected in India last week after a traveller who had returned from the UK was tested for coronavirus.

So far, the Asian country has registered a total of 29 cases of the mutant strain.

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