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India suspends all flights from #UK until December 31 as a new #COVID19 strain emerges

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Indian government has suspended all flights from the #UnitedKingdom after reports that the country has seen a new strain of #COVID19, which has been termed as a "super spreader".

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The Ministry of Civil Aviation also announced that as a precautionary measure all passengers arriving from the #UK in transit flights that will reach India before December 22, will have to take mandatory RT PCR tests on arrival.

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On December 19, UK’s Prime Minister #BorisJohnson had spoken about the new variant of the Sars-Cov-2 which scientists believed was “70% transmissible”.

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Within a day, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Austria and Italy had all suspended flights from the UK. They were followed by France, Bulgaria, Belgium, the Irish Republic, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Switzerland and Canada, who have now all suspended their flights from the #UK.

Earlier, Delhi Chief Minister #ArvindKejriwal too had urged the central government to ban all incoming flights from the country "immediately".

Health Minister Harsh Vardhan had also said that there is no need to panic as the government is alert on the issue.

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