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India resumes flight for UK amid concerns over new COVID-19 strain

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Indian government has resumed flights from the United Kingdom which were closed in the last week of December. As per their official Twitter handle, two Air India flights – one from Delhi and one from Mumbai, will fly for London flew on January 6, 2020.

Earlier on Tuesday, Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said that the government is reviewing the situation and it has allowed limited resumption of civil aviation with the United Kingdom.

“We took a decision on limited resumption of civil aviation traffic between India and the United Kingdom based on an assessment of available facts as available with our medical professionals. We decided that RT-PCR test which was done 72 hours ahead of travelling was not enough,” he told news agency news agency.

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