Coronavirus: Air India rescue flight reaches Wuhan; to leave for home on Saturday

A special Air India jumbo flight has landed in Wuhan to evacuate a large number of Indians stranded at China’s coronavirus-hit Wuhan city.

According to Sanjeeva Kumar, the Special Secretary (Health) to Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 366 Indians are to be brought from China to India tomorrow.All of them will be kept in isolation for 14 days at the ITBP center in Chhawla. Safdarjung Hospital has kept 50 beds for critical patients.

Indian Government has taken proactive measures to rescue Indians from Wuhan and keep them at an isolated place for a fixed period as a preventative measure,for which Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) has created a residential facility in delhi.

AI flight that departed from Delhi has arrived at Wuhan’s Tianhe International Airport on Friday evening for the evacuation of Indians.  

 

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