CORONAVIRUS | Deputy Foreign Minister Kamarudin Jaffar said that Malaysians stranded in Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco arrived safely yesterday.
| More Malaysians returned home safely yesterday through a repatriation process conducted by the Foreign Ministry, after being stranded in several countries in the Middle East due to lack of flights because of the Covid-19 pandemic.said in a statement that Malaysians stranded in Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco had arrived safely at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Friday afternoon.
“While 312 Malaysians stranded in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco arrived here around 1.40 pm aboard a specially chartered Air Asia X aircraft. Passengers from Morocco boarding these flights were flown from Morocco to Algeria to participate in the repatriation mission,” he said. According to Kamarudin, 17 Indonesians, six Singaporeans, nine Japanese and two Koreans were also allowed to board the aircraft in the spirit of solidarity and all of them were scheduled to take connecting flights to return to their respective countries.
He said the Malaysian government would like to thank all the countries that assisted in making this mission successful. In the meantime, the ministry also welcomed the arrival of 371 Malaysians from Egypt who arrived yesterday at 5.25 am. They returned on their own expense by boarding a Zara Zakiah Sdn Bhd aircraft.
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