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.
He was speaking after welcoming a chariot (ratha) spreading awareness on the Vishwa Tuluvere Aayano' (World Tulu Conference) to be held at Badiadka near Kasaragod from December 9 to 13. He later flagged off the chariot near Rajangana.
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Who is mother in law ?
\ Beary\" is grand papa"
Konkani is your mother in law....
hi..
kannada is mother, tulu is father.. then who is cow? not anymore Gomatha????
India is Mother,
Cow is Mother,
Karnataka Is Mother,
Father only one TULU...
Iddu yentha vipariyaasa kanri. Thai ge belene illwa kanri.
Kandu kandavarennalla Thai Antharalri Ivaru...
Adakke kanri namma VIREN Sahibru Thai land nalli kuthiruudu.
Humans have their own human mothers
Animals have their own mothers
COW is the mother of CALF
U Were silent When Cheddis were killing the human in the name of Cow mother
Please dont make another fake mothers to create trouble in the society
People have started thinking now
They dont want FAKE MOTHERS
They want to take care of their OWN MOTHER who gave birth to them...
WE RESPECT U BUT please dont think WE ARE ALL STUPID TO FOLLOW WHATEVER U SPILL...
IS IPHONE 7, WHICH RELEASED YESTERDAY, IS ALSO UR FATHER??
iphone 7, the father is released yesterday.
:)......
Please do not add one more to ur parents list. We are confused what and who are your parents.. Already there are many.. now pls do not add more..
I thought Cow is ur mother. totally how many mothers and fathers u people have.
Kannnada occupied mother's place. What about poor cow? fed up with cows?
Joke of the day!
Mother, Father.
Mother, Father.
Mother, Father.
Each and everything is a Father or Mother.
But, finally ignore real mother and father.
They end up on roads or old age homes.
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