Domestic passenger flights will resume across the country from today, two months after the lockdown announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, bringing big relief to the aviation sector that was on the brink of collapse.
Quoting the aviation industry sources, news agency PTI reported that Delhi-Pune and Mumbai-Patna flights will be among the first to take off.
The West Bengal government said that domestic flight operations will not be resuming in the state from Monday as the state will remain busy with relief work in the aftermath of cyclone Amphan.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has claimed damage of Rs 1 lakh crore to infrastructure and crops due to the cyclone which tore through the state on Wednesday. "It's just been two days since the catastrophe. We are all working day and night. Please be patient. We are trying to restore everything as soon as possible," she said at a news conference on Saturday.
India registered the biggest-single day jump in the number of coronavirus cases as 6,767 new patients were reported in the last 24 hours. This is the third consecutive day that India has reported more than 6,000 COVID-19 cases with a record number of new patients each day. The county has officially logged 1,31,868 cases, 3,867 deaths linked to the highly infectious illness since the pandemic began. Of these, 147 patients died in the last 24 hours.
Europe is the worst-affected continent, with 2,003,510 cases and 173,186 deaths, while the United States is the worst-hit country, with 1,604,879 cases and 96,125 deaths.
