NEW DELHI : China on Monday announced it would evacuate its citizens, including students, tourists and businessmen, from India who are facing "difficulties" in the country due to the coronavirus pandemic.
A notice on the Chinese embassy website said Monday said those who wanted to return home could book tickets in special flights.
The move to evacuate Chinese citizens from India comes in the wake of the country entering the list of top 10 worst hit nations by the novel coronavirus pandemic with 150,000 infections and 4,100 deaths.
The disease which first surfaced in China;s Hubei province has now infected 5.4 million people worldwide and caused more than 345,000 deaths, according to the US based Johns Hopkins University tracker of the