New Delhi (NVI): An Indian Air Force plane today brought back another batch of 76 Indians stuck in coronavirus-hit Wuhan, the third special flight sent to the neighbouring country for the evacuation of citizens.
With this, India has so far evacuated 723 Indians and 43 foreign nationals from Wuhan.
IAF’s C-17 Globemaster III plane that landed in Delhi today also had 36 nationals from 7 countries – Bangladesh, Myanmar, Maldives, China, South Africa, USA and Madagascar.
The plane had departed from Air Force Station, Palam yesterday carrying 15 tonnes of medical supplies to Wuhan, as a goodwill gesture by the Indian Government.
Wuhan, which falls in Hubei Province in China, emerged as the epicentre of the epidemic outbreak that has claimed 2,744 lives so far.
Earlier, two AI flights, one on January 31 and the other on February 1, 2020 were organised to evacuate the Indian citizens.
The first flight on January 31 carried 324 Indians, most of them students, who were taken to Indo-Tibetan Border Police Chhawla camp in Delhi and an army facility at Manesar in Haryana for medical observation.
The second flight on February 1 brought 323 Indian citizens and 7 Maldives citizens from Wuhan and were taken to two quarantine facilities.
