UK Mission In India Gets Ready To Evacuate Britons Stuck Amid Lockdown
India had imposed a 21-day national lockdown on March 24. (Document)
New Delhi:
The UK project in New Delhi on Tuesday requested its nationals stranded in India amid coronavirus lockdown to ship their main points as London introduced international flight bundle to evacuate British folks from other international locations.
In a video message on Twitter, performing UK Prime Fee to India, Jan Thompson, requested British nationals to make sure that they’re in a position with their passports and go back and forth paperwork in a position for departure. She mentioned that the timings and departure places of the flights from India will likely be introduced within the coming days.
“British Govt has introduced a global partnership between the United Kingdom Govt and airways to repatriate British Nationals stranded because of the extraordinary global go back and forth and home restrictions in position on account of coronavirus pandemic,” she mentioned.
India had imposed a 21-day national lockdown on March 24 in a bid to struggle the unfold of coronavirus. It additionally banned all global passenger flight operations until March 14.
On Saturday, British overseas minister Dominic Raab held talks with Indian International Minister S Jaishankar and mentioned joint efforts to convey folks again house.
The Union Well being Ministry mentioned the dying toll because of COVID-19 has risen to 32 and the selection of overall coronavirus instances to at least one,251 as on Monday. There are 1,117 lively instances within the nation with the state of Kerala contributing the absolute best selection of instances which stands at 202.
