Chennai: With the spike in Coronavirus cases weighing heavily upon it, the Tamil Nadu government is not in favour of restarting domestic air services connecting cities in the state till this month-end and might take up the matter with the Centre, an official said on Friday.
As the union civil aviation ministry gears up to resume the services from Monday, Tamil Nadu wants the plans deferred for now.
Officials in the State Secretariat said that the stand taken by Chief Minister K Palaniswami against resumption of regular air services till May 31 remains.
"The government may take up the issue with the Centre," an official told PTI.
The immediate concern of the government is to screen all the passengers arriving to the state and keep track of the infected, if any.
The sheer volume of passengers at the airports would make the health machinery concentrate more on the inbound visitors, officials said.
Since the last ten days, the state health department detected 66 positive cases among returnees from abroad by flights and other states by trains.
They were all quarantined.
As per the government guidelines on COVID-19 prevention and management, all entering the state should be scanned for the virus and if found to have symptoms, would be taken to government facilities for treatment.
Those who don't show symptoms would be home quarantined.
During his interaction with Prime Minister Narendra Modi through video conferencing on May 11, Palaniswami had pitched against restarting air and rail services in Tamil Nadu till May end.
22/05/20 PTI/New Indian Express
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As the union civil aviation ministry gears up to resume the services from Monday, Tamil Nadu wants the plans deferred for now.
Officials in the State Secretariat said that the stand taken by Chief Minister K Palaniswami against resumption of regular air services till May 31 remains.
"The government may take up the issue with the Centre," an official told PTI.
The immediate concern of the government is to screen all the passengers arriving to the state and keep track of the infected, if any.
The sheer volume of passengers at the airports would make the health machinery concentrate more on the inbound visitors, officials said.
Since the last ten days, the state health department detected 66 positive cases among returnees from abroad by flights and other states by trains.
They were all quarantined.
As per the government guidelines on COVID-19 prevention and management, all entering the state should be scanned for the virus and if found to have symptoms, would be taken to government facilities for treatment.
Those who don't show symptoms would be home quarantined.
During his interaction with Prime Minister Narendra Modi through video conferencing on May 11, Palaniswami had pitched against restarting air and rail services in Tamil Nadu till May end.
22/05/20 PTI/New Indian Express
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