COVID-19: International flights to restart from 27 March, announces Centre

With COVID-19 cases declining, the Centre has decided to resume scheduled commercial international flights to and from India from 27 March, the ministry of civil aviation said.

Taking to Twitter, Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya M Scindia said with this step, the sector will reach new heights.

Scindia tweeted:

After deliberation with stakeholders &keeping in view the decline in the #COVID19 caseload,we have decided to resume international travel from Mar 27 onwards.Air Bubble arrangements will also stand revoked thereafter.With this step,I’m confident the sector will reach new heights!

— Jyotiraditya M. Scindia (@JM_Scindia) March 8, 2022

According to ANI, the ministry further said that the suspension of scheduled commercial international passenger services to and from India, thus, stands extended till 2359 hrs IST on March 26, 2022, and air bubble arrangements shall accordingly be extended to this extent only.

In order to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had suspended operations of scheduled international commercial passenger services to and from India with effect from March 23, 2020.

India reported 3,993 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours informed the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Tuesday. The government data shows that the active caseload of the country has risen to 49,948 at present which accounts for 0.12 per cent of total cases.

As per a report by ANI, the daily positivity rate stands at 0.46 per cent while the weekly positivity rate is 0.68 per cent.

Meanwhile, a total of 8,055 people have been recovered from the COVID-19 infection in the past 24 hours, taking the cumulative recoveries to 4,24,06,150. The recovery rate now is at 98.68 per cent.

In the past 24 hours, as many as 108 people have succumbed to coronavirus infection, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, ANI said.

With 8,73,395 tests conducted to detect COVID-19 infection in the past 24 hours, the total number of tests conducted so far has gone up to 77.43 crore. A total of 179.13 crore vaccine doses have been administered so far to eligible beneficiaries under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive. Notably, India’s vaccination drive against the virus commenced on 16 January 2021.

With inputs from ANI

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