200,000 Indians abroad have registered for repatriation and that the final number could be twice that. FMTNews Covid19 GulfStates UAE
26 flights will bring Indians home from the Gulf region while others will fly from Southeast Asia, Britain and the US.
India banned all incoming international flights in late March as it imposed one of the world’s strictest virus lockdowns, leaving hundreds of thousands of workers and students stranded abroad. The first of 64 flights over the next week were due to leave the United Arab Emirates – home to more than three million Indians – and Qatar on Thursday bound for the southern state of Kerala.
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