The Indiangovernment on Monday asked all the domestic passenger airlines to suspend theiroperations by midnight tomorrow as the country tightens lockdown to prevent thespread of novel coronavirus disease.
“The operations ofdomestic scheduled commercial airlines shall cease operations effective fromthe mid night 23.59 IST hours on 24/3/2020,” said the civil aviation ministry,according to the Press Information Bureau.
“Airlines have toplan operations so as to land at their destination before 2359 hours on24/3/2020. The restrictions shall not apply to solely cargo carrying flights,”it added.
Last week, thegovernment banned the operations of international flights till the end of Marchas part of its efforts to prevent the spread of novel coronavirus disease,which has so far claimed seven lives in India and infected over 400 people.