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Two flights with a total of 335 people from the Gulf countries landed at both Kerala airports on Friday night, when India’s Vande Bharat Mission to carry their stranded nationals due to the closure of Covid-19 in various countries entered on the second day.
While an Air India repatriation flight from Riyadh with 153 passengers, including 84 pregnant women, 22 children and four babies, landed at Kozhikode airport at 8pm on Friday night, another Air India Express flight from Bahrain with 177 passengers, including 5 babies, arrived at Kochi airport at 11.32 pm.
Two flights had landed in Kochi and Kozhikode on Thursday from Abu Dhabi and Dubai, respectively.
According to sources at the Kozhikode airport, the flight from Riyadh took five people who had some health problems and would be transferred to the hospitals of the Manjeri and Kozhikode medical school.
Ten passengers from neighboring Karnataka and Tamil Nadu states also traveled on the flight from Riyadh, the sources said.
The passengers underwent thermal tests at the aerobridge itself before allowing them to undergo customs and immigration controls, sources at the Kozhikode airport said.
Official sources said that all passengers would undergo the Covid-19 rapid test at the airport before transferring them to their respective destinations in special taxis and KSRTC buses.
Under the rules, all pregnant women and children would be transported home and others would be transferred to coronavirus care centers in their home districts.
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