COVID-19: UK announces 12 additional flights to leave stranded nationals from India

The United Kingdom on Friday announced 12 additional licence flights to leave a nationals who are stranded in India amid transport restrictions overdue to a coronavirus crisis. The proclamation was done by a British High Commission. The additional flights’ proclamation comes days after UK High Commission pronounced that 7 licence flights will leave Britishers from Goa, Mumbai and New Delhi. These 19 flights will leave in sum 5000 people from India, a UK High Commission pronounced in a statement.The initial licence moody from India reached London Stanstead on Thursday morning with 317 British nationals on house from Goa.

The embassy also announced a report of 12 flights. Three of a 12 flights will take off from Amritsar on Apr 13, 17 and 19. Two flights are scheduled to embark from Ahmedabad on Apr 13, 15 and dual from Goa on Apr 14, 16. One moody any will take off from Goa, Thiruvananthapuram Hyderabad, Kolkata and Chennai during a time duration from Apr 15 to 20.

“We are doing all we can to get thousands of British travellers in India home. This is a outrageous and formidable operation that also involves operative with a Indian Government to capacitate people to pierce within India to get on these flights,” UK Minister of State for South Asia and a Commonwealth, Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon “Over 300 people arrived from Goa on Thursday morning, 1,400 some-more will arrive over a Easter weekend and these 12 flights subsequent week will move behind thousands more,” he added.

The British Government had announced a worldwide partnership between a UK Government and airlines to repatriate nationals stranded due to a rare general transport and domestic restrictions in place as a outcome of coronavirus outbreak.

India had imposed a 21-day national lockdown on Mar 24 in a bid to fight a widespread of coronavirus. It also criminialized all general newcomer moody operations.

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