Domestic flights in India have been suspended with effect from 11:59 pm on Tuesday amid the coronavirus outbreak in India, the Aviation Ministry informed on Monday.
Airlines will have to land all their domestic passenger flights at destinations by 11:59 pm on March 24. Operations of domestic cargo flights will however, continue as normal.
India had banned all international commercial flights on Sunday for one week, starting on Monday.
The Union health ministry on Monday told Indian airlines that passengers with "home quarantined" stamps on them should not be allowed to board any domestic flight.
The ministry had on Sunday asked the airlines to let the passengers with stamps of "home quarantine" on them board domestic transit flights so that they can reach their final destination.
The government has directed that every asymptomatic passenger coming from abroad must stay in home quarantine for 14 days. Such passengers are stamped with "home quarantined" stamps on their hand before leaving the airport.
COVID cases in India rose to 415, the health ministry said, as much of the country locked down on Monday with the Centre warning of legal action against those violating the restrictions enforced to curtail the pandemic, which has claimed more than 14,500 lives globally. In India, seven people have died due to the disease.
(With inputs from PTI.)
