{"id":8960,"date":"2020-07-24T17:44:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T17:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=8960"},"modified":"2020-07-24T17:44:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T17:44:20","slug":"no-flight-operations-at-kolkata-airport-on-july-25-29-kolkata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=8960","title":{"rendered":"No flight operations at Kolkata airport on July 25, 29 &#8211; kolkata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>All flights operations \u2013 incoming and outgoing &#8212; at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) Airport in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/lucknow\/raise-daily-covid-testing-to-1-lakh-conduct-door-to-door-survey-in-7-districts-yogi-to-officials\/story-joEiI1K91BLuAccJthxM5L.html\" title=\"Kolkata have been c\">Kolkata have been c<\/a>ancelled on July 25 and July 29 because of the bi-weekly lockdown restrictions announced by the West Bengal administration, airport officials said. <\/p>\n<p>The Union Ministry of Civil Aviation has already cancelled flights coming to Kolkata from six coronavirus disease (Covid-19)-hit cities &#8212; Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Nagpur and Ahmedabad &#8212; until July 31, on the request of the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) government. <\/p>\n<p>The state-administration has announced a 24-hour state-wide complete lockdown on at least two days every week, the first of which was enforced on Thursday (July 23). <\/p>\n<p>Even though flights operated on Thursday, all flight operations will be cancelled from the next two lockdown days such as July 25 and 29.<\/p>\n<p>The following week only one-day lockdown will be enforced on July 29, and the government is likely to announce the date of the second bi-weekly restrictions on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>The lockdown dates for every week would be announced on Monday, state government officials have said. <\/p>\n<p>The decision was taken following the apprehension of community spread of Covid-19 outbreak in some parts of the state amid a spike in the daily cases of the contagion.<\/p>\n<p>West Bengal has reported 51,757 Covid-19 cases until Thursday, which recorded the highest single-day spike at 2,436 fresh cases. <\/p>\n<p>The death toll has risen to 1,255, as 34 fresh fatalities were reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><!--   section:kolkata mainSection:cities\/kolkata-->\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/no-flight-ops-at-kolkata-airport-on-july-25-29\/story-pjWzvJ2C1dJh6dSjU2lsMN.html\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All flights operations \u2013 incoming and outgoing &#8212; at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) Airport in Kolkata have been cancelled on July 25 and July 29 because of the bi-weekly lockdown restrictions announced by the West Bengal administration, airport officials said. The Union Ministry of Civil Aviation has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/kolkata-lockdown-covid-19-day-65_f34924b8-cda4-11ea-8f16-bf30a6fcabb3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}