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Kerala: When India’s main evacuation mission for stranded Indians, the Vande Bharat Mission entered its second day, two flights carrying a total of 335 people from the Gulf countries landed at both Kerala airports on Friday night .
The first flight from Riyadh carried 153 passengers, including 84 pregnant women, 22 children and four babies. The flight landed at Kozhikode airport at 8 p.m. Friday night, another Air India Express flight from Bahrain with 177 passengers, including 5 babies, arrived at Kochi airport at 11.32 p.m.
– India in Saudi Arabia (@IndianEmbRiyadh) May 8, 2020
Passengers were screened for COVID-19 symptoms at the airport before boarding. 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.
The passengers were also subjected to thermal tests at the aerobridge after landing at Kozhikode airport, the sources said. Ten passengers from neighboring Karnataka and Tamil Nadu states also traveled on the flight from Riyadh, the sources said.
Sharing information about successful evacuations under the Vande Bharat Mission Minister of Aviation, Hardeep Singh Puri, he said that 182 Indians from Bahrain, 234 from Singapore, 168 from Dhaka and 152 from Riyadh have landed in India.
The Vande Bharat mission is accelerating.
182 Indians from Bahrain, 234 from Singapore, 168 from Dhaka and 152 from Riyadh are returning today on several flights.
Great effort to @airindiain, our missions abroad and @MEAIndia. pic.twitter.com/EjSQVZxIta
– Hardeep Singh Puri (@HardeepSPuri) May 8, 2020
A total of three flights with stranded Indians landed in India on Friday. An Air India AI 381 flight, with 234 passengers, landed in New Delhi from Singapore. An AI 1242 flight from Dhaka landed at Srinagar and the third Riyadh flight landed at Kozhikode, Kerala. Two flights had landed in Kochi and Kozhikode on Thursday from Abu Dhabi and Dubai, respectively.
Through the Vande Bharat Mission, 64 flights and three Navy ships will repatriate nearly 15,000 Indians stranded abroad due to the coronavirus pandemic.
(With PTI input)
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