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COVID-19: Bengal asks Centre to stop domestic flights from worst-hit states, requests resumption of Kolkata Metro for essential staff

COVID-19: Bengal asks Centre to stop domestic flights from worst-hit states, requests resumption of Kolkata Metro for essential staff

Kolkata/IBNS: At a time when India, as well as West Bengal, have been witnessing a sharp surge in Covid-19 cases, Bengal Chief Secretary Rajiva Sinha on Tuesday wrote to the Union Civil Aviation Secretary, P. S. Kharola, requesting him to stop domestic flights to West Bengal from five worst-hit states, including Delhi, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu.