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Only two flights per week allowed from New Delhi; Nepal halts international flights
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Only two flights per week allowed from New Delhi; Nepal halts international flights

| @indiablooms | 04 May 2021, 03:02 pm

Authorities in Nepal have decided to ground all flights from the country barring two flights per week from New Delhi, reported The Himalayan Times. The ban will come into effect from Wednesday.

The exemption was made under the air bubble agreement which the country has had with India.

The new measures came when the Himalayan country has been seeing a dangerous trend in the coronavirus spread. For a week now, the country has been recording over 5000 infections on daily basis, half of them alone reported from its capital, Kathmandu Valley.

Earlier, the health ministry termed the situation “unmanageable”, and called for strict measures to check the trend. Domestic flights have already been halted, and the three districts in the Kathmandu Valley are in lockdown currently.

The surge in cases started soon after Nepali workers from India started coming back to the country. India has currently been grappling with an unprecedented and deadly surge.

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