Coronavirus: A team of Indian health officials is in Iran, says Jaishankar

Over the last few days, the government has been making fo­cussed efforts for the safe return of the stranded Indians

Mr Deputy Chairman, Sir, I rise to apprise this august House of some recent developments pertaining to Indians stranded in Iran as a result of the coronavirus situation. The House is already aware of the efforts the government had made to bring back Indians from Wuhan in China by mounting three flights to that city. Thereafter, we also brought back the crew and passengers of a cruise ship off Japan that was affected by coronavirus. These evacuations also included some foreign nationals.

Our focus since has shifted to Iran, in view of the sharp in­crease of coronavirus in that country. As