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Covid-19: 25,000 Indians to be repatriated from US, says Ambassador Sandhu

The first flight will be from San Francisco to Mumbai and Hyderabad on Saturday with 200 passengers on board

Medics screen passengers after an Air India Express flight brought stranded Indian nationals from Abu Dhabi, UAE, as part of the repatriation exercise ‘Vande Bharat Mission’, at the airport in Kochi. Photo: PTI
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On May 10, an Air India flight from New York with 300 passengers on board will come to Mumbai and Ahmedabad

ANI Washington D.C.
Around 25,000 Indians have registered with the country's mission in the US for repatriation flights that will begin operating from Saturday (local time), Ambassador Taranjit Singh Sandhu said, adding that in the first week, seven flights will take-off and a "continuous work" will be in progress to evacuate Indian nationals from here.

In an exclusive interview to ANI, Sandhu said: "So, we have a total of 25,000 people who have registered in the first week, we are going to take seven flights, and this will be a continuous work in progress, depending upon how the requirements come where the people wish