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India’s massive repatriation operation to bring back stranded Indians in the wake of the coronavirus crisis began on Thursday. On the first day, the national airline Air India and its subsidiary Air India Express operated flights to the United Arab Emirates and Singapore from Cochin, Kozhikode and New Delhi.
The mission’s first flight, carrying 181 people from Abu Dhabi, landed in Kochi around 10 p.m. Thursday. The second 182-passenger flight from Dubai landed in Kozhikode approximately 20 minutes later.
When the passengers disembarked from the flight, many were seen wiping away tears.
These were the first of 64 flights that the two airlines will operate from May 7 to 13 to bring back 14,800 stranded Indians from 12 countries.
Another Air India flight from Bangladesh will arrive in India on Friday. A student, returning to India from Bangladesh, thanked the Indian embassy. “I very much appreciate the efforts they have made. They gave me all the help, ”the student is heard saying in a video posted on Twitter by the Indian Embassy in Bangladesh just before boarding the flight.
“Today we are preparing to send home our stranded students in Bangladesh. Air India’s first flight from Dhaka will take them home to Srinagar on 8/5/20. More flights are also being prepared, “the embassy tweeted on Friday morning.
The first batch of Indian students has arrived at the airport to board #Air india flight back to India. They are being assisted in completing the formalities by @ihcdhaka
Operation #VandeBharat@HardeepSPuri @listenshahid @diprjk @airindiain pic.twitter.com/zgLa85ZoI6
– India in Bangladesh (@ihcdhaka) May 8, 2020
In addition to the one-way ferry service, Air India has also invited passengers, who qualify under the new international government travel rules, to request passage from India to various destinations. The airline will send your plane to perform evacuation flights.
In accordance with government regulations, evacuated citizens will be sent to institutional quarantine facilities established by various state governments.
Pregnant women, people in need of immediate treatment, those returning to attend ceremonies related to the death of a close relative, older people in need of ongoing assistance, and children under the age of 10 will be able to go home where they will be. under strict house quarantine (-isolation) for 14 days, authorities said.
India has been under blockade since March 25 to curb the coronavirus pandemic.
All national and international commercial passenger flights have been suspended during the three-phase blockade that began on March 25 and will continue until May 17.
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