Bengaluru, May 22: Evacuation planes from Male in Maldives and Doha in Qatar landed in Bengaluru with returnees from Karnataka after they were stranded for two months due to suspension of international flights since March 23 and the extended lockdown, an official said on Friday.
"An Air-India flight (#0266) with 152 passengers from Male and its subsidiary Express flight (IX-0822) with 177 returnees and 5 infants from Doha landed here safely at 6.50 pm. and 9.05 pm respectively," an airline official told media persons in Bengaluru.
Both the flights are first from their respective countries to Bengaluru, bringing in returnees to the southern state in the second phase of the Vande Bharat mission, being carried out to evacuate Indians stranded the world over.
"As per the standard operating procedure and guidelines of the state health department, all the passengers were screened with thermal device and tested to ensure they were asymptomatic before leaving the airport," a nodal officer said.
The returnees were given a spare mask to wear all the time and a sanitiser to wash their hands.
"The luggage of all passengers was screened and disinfected before handing over to them after they completed formalities such as filling the self-declaration form and downloading of the Quarantine App for contact tracing later,” said the official.
The passengers were ferried from the airport in state-run buses in batches for 14-day institutional quarantine in hotels and resorts across the city.
The flights were the 6th and 7th flights to Karnataka, of the national carrier and its Express arm, which are operating the service to repatriate thousands of Indians, including distressed workers, migrants, students, senior citizens and tourists, stranded overseas.
Five flights have flown about 650 returnees till date from May 18-21 under the mission's second phase to Bengaluru and Mangaluru on the west coast. The passengers have been brought from Dubai in the UAE, Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, Muscat in Oman, Dammam in Saudi Arabia and San Francisco in the US.
The remaining flights to Karnataka will land in Bengaluru and Mangaluru over the next 12 days till June 3 from 9-10 more destinations the world over.
In the first phase of the mission from May 7-17, the airline and its arm flew 6 flights to the state from May 11-15, bringing in 800 passengers, including 623 to Bengaluru and 177 to Mangaluru from London, Singapore, San Francisco and Dubai.
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He is definately hired by sangh parivar. Hope this person will get a seat in election and will be glorified by bjp alongwith |Shahnawaz and Naqvi. Dont worry Sadik, yuo will get ache din soon. You should also support Modi for his anti islamic activities ie. putting leg in sharia law.
Beta do not day dream Real muslim never will become his fan.. he is only by name Muslim.
well done sadiq .. keep it up ... I know u will be targeted by your own community for sure and its visible here... not only him ... there are lakhs of muslims who are fans of modi ...
See his Auto!!! He is not only a fan of Modi!!!! ha ha ha
10 trip 100 people? strange!!!...Paid person by BJP.
Looks like hired for two month... because there is no Indian left in India who is supporting Modi ji, only bhakth who had no ........ lol.....
Most of Modi fans belong to this auto driver's category: A class VIII drop out.
He might be a member of Muslim Rastriya Manch that is a branch of RSS and BJP. He might be gets paid from BJP to make publicity of FENKU. Not only in DK all over india people's pocket are empty. How come this guys have money to put petrol to his rikshaw?? Something strange.
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