Hardeep Singh Puri schools Delhi CM over new COVID-19 strain tweet; Singapore refutes his claim

The BJP alleged that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal would not examine details earlier than talking.

It seems that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted in a haste concerning the new COVID-19 pressure allegedly present in Singapore. Kejriwal yesterday mentioned {that a} new pressure of COVID-19 present in Singapore is claimed to be extraordinarily harmful for kids and it can lead to a 3rd wave in India. He went on to attraction to the central authorities to right away cancel air providers with Singapore and to work on precedence to make vaccine choices accessible for kids.

Nevertheless, his tweet attracted a response from sudden quarters. Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri schooled him on the air providers between the 2 nations. “Kejriwal ji, worldwide flights have been banned since March 2020. We don’t even have any air bubble with Singapore. Only some Vande Bharat flights are being operated between the 2 nations to convey again Indians trapped there. They’re our personal individuals. We nonetheless have our eye on the state of affairs and all precautions are being taken,” tweeted Purin in Hindi.

केजरीवाल जी, मार्च 2020 से ही अंतर्राष्ट्रीय उड़ानें बंद हैं। सिंगापुर के साथ एयर बबल भी नहीं है।

बस कुछ वन्दे भारत उड़ानों से हम वहाँ फँसे भारतीय लोगों को वापस लाते हैं। ये हमारे अपने ही लोग हैं।

फिर भी स्थिति पर हमारी नज़र है। सभी सावधानियाँ बरती जा रही हैं। pic.twitter.com/wOZMX0Q5CK

— Hardeep Singh Puri (@HardeepSPuri) May 18, 2021

Even the Singapore Embassy in India responded to Kejriwal’s tweet and refuted the claims made by Kejriwal. “There isn’t a reality within the assertion that there’s a new COVID pressure in Singapore. Phylogenetic testing has proven that the B.1.617.2 variant is the prevalent pressure in lots of the COVID circumstances, together with in kids, in current weeks in Singapore,” mentioned Singapore’s mission in India.

There isn’t a reality within the assertion that there’s a new COVID pressure in Singapore. Phylogenetic testing has proven that the B.1.617.2 variant is the prevalent pressure in lots of the COVID circumstances, together with in kids, in current weeks in Singapore.https://t.co/uz0mNPNxlE https://t.co/Vyj7gyyzvJ

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— Singapore in India (@SGinIndia) May 18, 2021

The BJP alleged that Delhi Chief Minister doesn’t examine details earlier than talking. Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor mentioned in a tweet that Kejriwal has invited worldwide insult by making such claims.

Delhi Congress president Anil Kumar mentioned in a press release that the CM was attempting to shirk his personal accountability on the best way to counter a brand new Singapore variant of the Covid virus as a behavior.