New Delhi: Domestic flight operations resumed this morning, two months after a nationwide lockdown was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to break the coronavirus chain of transmission. Ahead of air travel being restarted – a development Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, among others, voiced concerns about – states have issued guidelines over quarantine and isolation of incoming passengers. These come after lengthy discussions between the centre and states, with the latter worrying about an accompanying surge in new COVID-19 cases. Notice of resumption of air travel was delivered by a tweet on Wednesday from Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, who, on two occasions last week, said short-haul passengers need not be quarantined.
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