India-UK flights resume; first airplane with 256 passengers lands in Delhi

Weeks after flights between the United Kingdom and India have been suspended following the detection of a extra infectious pressure of the novel coronavirus, air providers between the 2 nations resumed Friday. The first flight carrying 256 passengers from London landed in New Delhi this morning, reported information company ANI.
The authorities had suspended flights on December 23. For the subsequent two weeks, until January 23, solely 15 flights will function between the 2 nations.
The incoming flights will land solely in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad. The authorities has put out the usual working process for travellers getting into India. According to the rules, all passengers must bear obligatory self-paid RT-PCR exams on arrival and shall be saved in isolation if the outcomes are optimistic.
“It has been decided that flights between India and the UK will resume from January 8, 2021. Operations till January 23 will be restricted to 15 flights per week each for carriers of the two countries to and from Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru & Hyderabad only,” Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri posted on Twitter final week.
Meanwhile, no less than 82 folks have examined optimistic for the brand new variant of Covid-19 in India thus far, the Health Ministry mentioned.