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Rules to stop Covid-19 variant lead to chaos, long queues at airports

Like many countries, India has suspended flights from Britain, where cases have soared because of the variant.

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Despite pre-booking a test, passengers coming from Britain had to wait for their turn for nine hours after arrival and they had to further wait at the airport for the result

Shilpa Jamkhandikar & Devjyot Ghoshal | Reuters Mumbai
Passengers flying into the country’s biggest airports on Wednesday complained of long waits and confusion as authorities sought to impose rules to try to stop the spread of a new more transmissible variant of the coronavirus.
 
Like many countries, India has suspended flights from Britain, where cases have soared because of the variant.
 
People arriving from Britain before the ban came into force on Wednesday were being tested, including Kamini Saraswat whose plane landed in New Delhi just before midnight.
 
Despite pre-booking a test, her turn came nine hours after arrival and she told Reuters she was