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NEW DELHI: Seven flights are expected to arrive in India on Saturday with hundreds of Indians stranded in various countries due to the coronavirus pandemic under the gigantic repatriation operation from India called Vande Bharat.
The flights arriving on Saturday are from the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bangladesh, Oman and Malaysia. They are expected to arrive in New Delhi, Lucknow, Chennai, Hyderabad and Trichy, according to an Indian government program.
Two more flights are expected, from the United Kingdom and Qatar, in the early hours of Sunday. These flights would arrive at Mumbai and Kochi airports.
Priority has been given to bringing back “asymptomatic” migrant workers or overseas workers who have been laid off, short-term visa holders face visa expiration problems, people with medical emergencies, pregnant women, the elderly, students and those they must return. to India due to the death of a family member.
These flights are part of the first phase of Vande Bharat’s massive mission that started on May 7 and runs through May 13. It involves bringing people back from the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, the United Kingdom, and the US. USA In 64 flights. Some 15,000 people will be taken home during the week during the mission expected to eclipse India’s largest repatriation mission to date, undertaken during the first Gulf War in the early 1990s, when New Delhi transported by Air to 177,000 of its people from Iraq and Kuwait.
According to people familiar with the development, India will expand the scope of the Vande Bharat mega mission starting May 15 to bring stranded citizens from countries such as Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Germany, Spain and Thailand to their homes.
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