Kolkata: The state government on Thursday wrote to the Ministry of Civil Aviation, announced his decision to temporarily suspend direct flights between Kolkata and London starting January 3 and Covid tests for all passengers who came in mind the increased cases of omicron globally in India.
The last flight from London to touch in Kolkata before the prohibition will be on Sunday, 2.
Also until now, only passengers come from the UK who are categorized as ‘risky’ countries because of the high prevalence of omicron cases as notified by the Ministry of Health Union is needed to undergo covid tests on arrival.
Additional Chief Secretary of BP Gopalika wrote to the Civil Aviation Union Secretary Rajiv Bansal to deliver the sidewalk on Indian air flights once in weeks that operate between Kolkata airport and Heathrow and testing protocols for international leaflets.
The letter was sent for hours after Minister of Chief Justice Mamata Banerjee sounded alarm on the high incident Omicron cases among bound leaflets and emergency meetings that followed at the State Secretariat on this issue.
Kolkata C Pattabhi Airport Director was present at the meeting.
In Kolkata, five of the 10 omicron cases tested in the state have returned from abroad.
In the last flight from England arrived on boxing day, four people were tested positive for Covid.
Their samples have been sent for genome sequencing to check if they have contracted the Omicron variant.
“I like English.
But it is seen that the majority of Omicron cases come from passengers from British flights.
Omicron spreads quickly and mostly spread through international flights.
Let’s see what the Civil Service Ministry is doing now,” CM in Gangasagar before raising the helicopter to Kolkata.
Prohibition decisions have left airlines and travel agents in place.
With all flights in January were ordered to near the capacity, it would be the assignment of Herculean to accommodate them on the flight bound England departing from Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Amritsar and Ahmedabad.
“This will be a logistical nightmare,” AI official said.
The letter to the Ministry of Civil Aviation also announced that all international passengers from non-risky countries must also undergo covid tests.
While 90% will take a quick antigen test, the rest must undergo a fast PCR or RT-PCR.
All passengers must require pre-book tests before going up to reduce the waiting time upon arrival that must be determined by the airline before allowing up.
After the announcement, Pattabhi said the rat kit was being obtained to obey the government’s orders.
“We will collect samples when passengers queue for immigration and have the results ready when they clean up immigration.
In the event of a delay, there is a seating setting for 350 people we can submit further,” said Pattabhi.
Travel trade industry officials say while the leisure travel will stop after the sidewalk and ride infections around the world, those with emergency travel needs will continue to fly through Delhi, Mumbai and other airports.