New Delhi: Amid the spike in Covid-19 cases in China, government sources have told ANI news agency that no decision has been taken to stop flight operations “to and from China”.
Several opposition leaders and medical experts have demanded the government immediately stop all international flights from China in order to prevent another Covid wave in India.
However, the agency confirmed that so far the government has not taken any such decision yet.
“We don’t have any direct flights from China to India or from India to China but as of now, there is no such order issued to stop connecting flights to India which are arriving via China. The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) is an executing ministry, the final decision will come from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW),” government sources told ANI.
In the last six months, India has reported four cases of the BF.7 Omicron sub-variant, the same strain that is driving China’s current surge of infections.
