Air India Flight Evacuating 324 Indians From China’s Wuhan Lands In Delhi
Mumbai: Officials said India’s Jumbo B747 aircraft landed here on Saturday morning, evacuating 324 Indian nationals from the coronavirus-hit Wuhan in China.
The plane reached Delhi at 7.30 am. There were five doctors from Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital and one paramedical staff on board, an Air India spokesperson told to PTI.
The Indian Army has set up a quarantine facility at Manesar near Delhi to keep people evacuated from China’s Hubei province.
Officials said they would be monitored for any signs of infection for two weeks by a qualified team of doctors and staff members.
An Air India spokesperson said on Saturday, “A special flight from Wuhan to India with 324 passengers has taken off. It can reach Delhi at 7.30 am”.
The flight departed from Delhi airport at 1.17 pm on Friday to evacuate Indian citizens from China, where more than 250 people – none of the Indians – died of the novel coronavirus.
On Saturday, officials said that death toll from the novel coronavirus outbreak in China has risen to 259 with total confirmed cases surging to 11,791 amid stepped-up efforts by a number of countries to evacuate their nationals from Hubei province, the epicentre of the virus.
Air India has done such evacuations earlier also from countries such as Libya, Iraq, Yemen, Kuwait and Nepal.
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