Guwahati News Desk: Urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi to stop the flights coming to India from countries affected by the new Covid variant, with immediate effect, the Chief Minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal wrote a letter on Sunday.
The letter read as, “Our country has fought a tough fight against corona for the last one and half years. With great difficulty and due to the selfless service of millions of our Covid warriors, our country has recovered from coronavirus.”
It added, “We should do everything possible to prevent the new variant of concern, recently recognised by the WHO, from entering India… I urge you to stop flights from these regions with immediate effect. Any delay in this regard may prove harmful, if any affected person enters India.”
Moreover, a number of countries, including the European Union, have been affected by the the new Covid variant named as ‘Omicron.’
Furthermore, the Delhi government has called a meeting of the Delhi Disaster Management Authority on Monday to discuss steps that need to be taken in view of the threat posed by the new Covid-19 variant.
