Delhi Airport alert! T2 temporarily shut - check reason; now flights to operate from this terminal

Amid sharp fall in the passenger traffic, the T2 terminal of the Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) will remain shut temporarily from midnight of 17 May 2021 as the capital continues to witness a sharp surge in the number of Covid-19 cases. 

Terminal 2 of Delhi airport will close temporarily due to a fall in passenger traffic as the number of flights have reduced significantly due to the second wave of the pandemic, a PTI report said. 

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Flight operations will continue only to and from T3 Terminal of the Delhi airport.  

Quoting sources, this report said that the Delhi international airport will shut down its T2 terminal from 17 May 17 as the number of flights have reduced significantly due to the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“From May 17 midnight, all flights will be handled at the T3 terminal only” this report said quoting the sources.
The Delhi airport is currently handling around 325 flights per day as against 1500 flights per day before the onslaught of the coronavirus pandemic began, this report said quoting these sources.  

The decision is in the wake of growing number of cases across the country forcing curbs on the number of flight operations in a day. Several reports have suggested that the airline companies have been badly hit because of the pandemic forcing lockdowns. The second wave has put a dent in the recovery process.
During the last few weeks, the number of domestic air passengers per day have come down from more than 2.2 lakh to around 75,000 right now, according to the Civil Aviation Ministry's data, this PTI report said.
Similarly, international air traffic has also been affected by the second wave of the pandemic, it claimed.
On Tuesday, new cases of coronavirus in India fell to 3.29 lakh after 14 days taking the total tally of COVID-19 infections to 2,29,92,517, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Tuesday. Over 3.5 lakh people recovered during this period.

As per the data updated at 8 am, the total tally of COVID-19 cases in country now stands at 2,33,40,938. The active cases have reduced to 37,04,099 comprising 15.87 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has improved to 83.04 per cent. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 1,93,82,642 while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.09 per cent, the data stated.