Domestic Flights: Airline major SpiceJet plans to launch 20 new flights on its domestic network in a phased manner from December 5, the company said on Tuesday.
Issuing a statement, the airline announced the addition of Ranchi as its latest domestic destination. The airline has introduced non-stop flights connecting the Jharkhand capital with the key metros of Delhi and Mumbai.
In the statement, the airline stated that it will operate daily flights on the Delhi-Ranchi-Delhi sector and the Mumbai-Ranchi-Mumbai sector.
Apart from this, SpiceJet will also connect Shirdi, a major pilgrimage center in Maharashtra with Delhi, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad with new daily non-stop flights.
“The airline has also introduced a host of new flights connecting Ahmedabad. These flights will operate on Ahmedabad-Jammu-Ahmedabad, Ahmedabad-Guwahati-Ahmedabad and Ahmedabad-Kochi-Ahmedabad sectors,” it said.
“While the flights between Ahmedabad and Kochi will operate daily, flights on Ahmedabad-Jammu-Ahmedabad sector will operate on all days except Sundays whereas flights on Ahmedabad-Guwahati-Ahmedabad will operate on Monday, Wednesday and Friday,” it added.
Mean-while, On Tuesday, India reported a significant drop in the number of fresh Covid-19 cases. Its case tally now stands at 9,499,710. The country’s death toll has mounted to 138,159. With 1,828,826 cases, Maharashtra has the highest number of coronavirus cases, followed by Karnataka 886,227, Andhra Pradesh 868,000, Tamil Nadu 783,319 and Kerala 608,357. Delhi recorded 4,006 fresh Covid-19 cases, taking the infection tally in the national capital to over 574,000, while 86 more fatalities pushed the toll from the disease to 9,260.
In the wake of reporting of two adverse events that occurred with the volunteers during the vaccine trial, the fear and hesitation among the people to take the vaccine are growing. However, the union health ministry on Tuesday said that the government doesn’t intend to immunize each individual with the Covid-19 vaccine.
World coronavirus update: The global tally of coronavirus cases stands at 64,167,294. While 44,426,026 have recovered, 1,485,649 have died so far. The US, the worst-hit country, has 14,102,948 cases, and 276,914 have died from the disease there. It is followed by India, which has 9,499,710 cases, Brazil (6,388,526), Russia (2,322,056), France (2,230,571).
