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Indian citizens stranded in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak disembark from the INS Jalaswa when they arrive from the Maldives to …read more
KOCHI / MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: the first naval ship carrying almost 700 Indian evacuees from Maldives It arrived in Cochin port on Sunday when another ship arrived in Male, while Air India operated around two dozen flights on the fourth day of the Vande Bharat Mission to bring back stranded citizens abroad due to the coronavirus blockade.
A Port Trust The statement said 698 people evacuated from the Maldives arrived at 9:30 a.m. by ‘INS Jalashwa’ of the Indian Navy. Among the passengers were 14 children under the age of 10 and 19 pregnant women.
While 440 people were from Kerala, 187 were from Tamil Nadu and four from Delhi. The rest are from 17 other states and Union Territories.
At the same time, INS Magar arrived in Male on Sunday, under the exercise baptized Operation Samudra Setu, to bring nearly 200 more stranded Indian citizens from the Maldives, the Indian Navy said.
Passengers showing symptoms of COVID-19 were first disembarked from INS Jalashwa, followed by others in small groups, according to the district, a Port Trust official said, adding that the luggage was also disinfected.
Customs and Immigration procedures were carried out inside the Terminal, where BSNL arranged for the distribution of SIM cards and the installation of Aarogya Setu on passengers’ mobile phones, the official said.
The state government has secured arrangements to continue the journey to hospitals or institutional quarantine centers and home quarantine by deploying ambulances, state transportation buses and taxis, the official said.
Up to 572 Indians arrived in Mumbai on two Air India flights from London and Singapore on Sunday morning.
A total of 329 people who were stranded in the UK arrived on the first flight from the country.
While passengers belonging to Mumbai were kept under mandatory institutional quarantine in hotels near the airport, those from other cities were taken to their respective places where they will be kept in isolation in hotels occupied for that purpose, said a government official from Maharashtra.
The first Air India flight to evacuate Indians from the US USA It took off from San Francisco on Saturday to Mumbai and Hyderabad and will arrive on Monday morning.
Since May 9, Air India has scheduled seven unscheduled commercial flights from the US. USA To India to facilitate the return of Indian citizens, who were unable to travel due to COVID-19 restrictions.
The Air India flight from Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey is flying on Sunday.
Another flight from Newark will fly to Delhi and Hyderabad on May 14. All passengers must undergo a medical examination before boarding the flight and only asymptomatic passengers may travel.
All passengers arriving in India will be medically examined and would have to download and register the Aarogya Setu app.
In addition, all passengers will be required to undergo a mandatory 14-day quarantine upon arrival in India at institutional facilities for a fee, according to protocols framed by the Government of India.
Highly located sources at the Indian Consulate in New York said “it has been relentless and uninterrupted work” to coordinate the repatriation exercise and the authorities “go out of their way to ensure that not a single seat on the flight becomes vacant.” “given that large numbers of Indians are stranded in the United States for various reasons and are” desperate “to return home.
Stranded passengers, terminally ill patients, passengers with medical problems and students are being prioritized.
Sources said that while flights from New Jersey were only supposed to carry passengers from states under the jurisdiction of the Consulate in New York, special arrangements have been made to transport four terminally ill patients from Houston.
In addition to the two flights from New Jersey, two flights are scheduled from Chicago on May 11 (to Mumbai and Chennai) and May 15 (Delhi and Hyderabad).
The solo flight from Washington DC on May 12 will fly to Delhi and Hyderabad.
The first phase of the Mission to evacuate the stranded Indians began on May 7 and will end on May 15. A total of 64 flights are expected with approximately 15,000 returnees from 12 countries, including the Gulf countries, Malaysia, the United Kingdom, and the US. USA at 14 airports across India during the period.
Air India flights simultaneously transport stranded foreigners to their countries.
In the second phase of evacuationIndians stranded in other Central Asian countries and Europe such as Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Germany, Spain, and Thailand will be brought in on May 15.
In accordance with the government’s evacuation policy, Indians with “compelling reasons” to return, such as pregnant women, the elderly, students, and people facing the possibility of deportation, are brought back home.
The 67,833 people who checked in on Friday and mapped flights included 22,470 students, 15,815 migrant workers, 9,250 people facing visa expiration and 5,531 seeking evacuation for medical emergency reasons, sources said.
People registered for the evacuation also included 4,147 stranded tourists, 3,041 pregnant women and the elderly, and 1,112 Indians who want to return due to the death of family members.
Kerala tops the list of repatriation requests at the state level with 25,246, followed by 6,617 from Tamil Nadu and 4,341 from Maharashtra. A total of 3,715 people from Uttar Pradesh requested the evacuation, 3,320 from Rajasthan, 2,796 from Telangana and 2,786 from Karnataka, the sources said.
The Ministry of External Affairs has developed an online platform where applications received by Indian missions from Indian citizens who wish to return are uploaded regularly.
In the first phase of evacuation, a total number of 27 flights will bring back Indians from the Gulf region. This included 11 flights from the United Arab Emirates, five from Saudi Arabia, five from Kuwait and two from Bahrain, Qatar and Oman, the sources said.
From the neighborhood, seven flights are scheduled to bring Bangladesh Indians to carry passengers to Srinagar, Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai.
Similarly, 14 flights will evacuate stranded Indians from Southeast Asia. Of these flights, five are from Singapore and the Philippines and four from Malaysia, they said.
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