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About 90,000 Indians to be repatriated from UAE by June end

More than 450,000 Indians working in UAE have applied with the consulate in Dubai and embassy in Abu Dhabi to return home

Thursday June 18, 2020 8:40 PM, ummid.com News Network

Dubai: About 90,000 Indians will be repatriated by special chartered and Vande Bharat flights from Dubai, Indian envoy said.

"Starting from June 20 until June 30 we have loads of chartered flights as well as four Vande Bharat flights every day", Vipul, India’s consul general in Dubai, told The National.

"By the end of this month, I anticipate we will have sent 85,000, maybe 90,000 people", he added.

More than 450,000 Indians working in UAE have applied with the consulate in Dubai and embassy in Abu Dhabi to return home after Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

More than 80 chartered flights and at least 35 flights are expected on the Vande Bharat or Salute India mission on government carriers over the next 10 days.

People keen to return to their families include the elderly, pregnant women, unemployed, people with medical conditions and those who arrived on visit visas.

India had detected the first Coronavirus case in January. As number of positive cases surged, it decided to suspend all international flights since March to contain the further spread of the deadly virus.

However, the intensity of virus ceases to slow down even after more than two months of the lockdown. As of Thursday, the country has recorded over 3.66 lakh positive cases and 12,237 deaths.

Corona cases in UAE are also increasing. It has detected 43,752 cases in the country since the first case on January 29. Some 30,241 of them have recovered.

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