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Delhi CM Kejriwal urges Centre to extend India-UK flight ban till Jan 31

January 7, 2021, 4:29 PM

Sneha Shah | New Delhi

Arvind Kejriwal

Arvind Kejriwal

Amid concerns over the rising cases of new COVID-19 strain in India, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, on Thursday, urged the Central government to extend the India-United Kingdom flight ban till January 31.

Centre has decided to lift the ban and start UK flights. In view of extremely serious COVID situation in UK, I would urge central govt to extent the ban till 31 Jan, Kejriwal tweeted.

?With great difficulty, people have brought COVID situation in control. UKs COVID situation is very serious. Now, why lift ban and expose our people to risk, he further tweeted.

After Centre’s partial lift on the India-UK flight ban, the first flight from UK would arrive in India on January 8.

The number of flights allowed to operate between India and UK has been revised by the Civil Aviation Ministry from 70 to 30, till January 23. A detailed guideline has also been issued by the Union health ministry for passengers arriving in India from the UK.

Meanwhile, a total of 73 people in the country have tested positive for the new UK variant of COVID-19.

All the positive patients have been kept in an isolated room in designated healthcare facilities by respective state governments.

Also read : ?Flight services from India to UK to resume on Jan 6; check guidelines

Their close contacts have also been quarantined, the Union Health Ministry informed.

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Active COVID cases near 30,000 mark in Nagpur

Published

4 years ago

January 25, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally, on Tuesday, January 25, reached 5,43,064 (till 5 pm) as 4028 (972 from rural and 2956 from city) new cases were recorded in a single day.

Also, active COVID cases, as on Tuesday, could be seen inching closer to 30,000 mark in the district.

Six people lost their lives (one from rural and five from city) on Tuesday. Till now, 10,183 people have lost their lives due to COVID-19 in the district. Total tests taken were 11,377.

While patients who recovered on Tuesday were 2519, the total number of recovered patients stood at 503729.

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Nagpur reports 90 COVID cases in past 24 hours

Published

4 years ago

January 2, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally on Sunday, January 2 reached 4,94,193 (till 5 pm) as 90 (73 city, nine rural) more people tested positive for the virus.

Also, five patients recovered on Sunday taking the number of recoveries to 4,83,664.

Till now, 10123 people have lost their lives due to COVID in the district. As of now, there are 406 active COVID patients in the district.

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ALARMING! Nagpur reports 88 COVID cases in past 24 hours

Published

4 years ago

December 31, 2021

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur registered 88 (81 from city) new COVID-19 positive cases on Friday, December 31. Nagpur previously had recorded as minimum as six cases on December 24.