Attention flyers! Delhi Airport to shut operations at T-2 terminal from Monday midnight due to COVID-19

All flights, from Monday midnight, will probably be dealt with on the T 3 terminal solely.

Delhi Airport: Consideration flyers! IGI Airport’s Terminal 2 to close down because of COVID-19. The Indira Gandhi Worldwide airport within the nationwide capital will shut down its T 2 terminal from Monday midnight because the variety of flight providers has considerably diminished because of the ongoing second COVID-19 pandemic wave. In keeping with the sources quoted in a PTI report, all flights, from Monday midnight, will probably be dealt with on the T 3 terminal solely. At current, Delhi Airport is dealing with round 325 flights per day, they mentioned. Earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic, the worldwide airport used to deal with round 1,500 flights per day.

The sources quoted within the report mentioned within the month of February, the typical passenger visitors on the IGI airport was round 1.15 lakh per day, which has now diminished to round 30,000 per day proper because of the second covid wave. The choice of the IGI Airport has come at a time when the nation in addition to its aviation sector have been hit badly by the second wave of COVID-19. In keeping with the Civil Aviation Ministry’s knowledge, throughout the previous couple of weeks, the variety of every day home air passengers within the nation has come down from greater than 2.2 lakh to about 75,000 proper now. Equally, the second wave of the pandemic has additionally affected worldwide air visitors.

In keeping with Union Well being Ministry knowledge, the COVID-19 tally in India mounted to 2,49,65,463 circumstances on Monday with 2,81,386 recent circumstances of novel coronavirus, the bottom in 27 days. Whereas the dying toll climbed to 2,74,390 with as many as 4,106 fatalities. The variety of lively covid optimistic circumstances in India, at current, stands at 35,16,997, accounting for 14.09 per cent of the entire COVID-19 infections. The nationwide restoration fee of COVID-19 sufferers has improved to 84.81 per cent, the info up to date at 8:00 AM confirmed, the report added.