NEW DELHI: A dozen flights are expected to ferry Indians stranded abroad from countries like the Philippines and Singapore to the US on the sixth day of mission Vande Bharat on Tuesday, according to a schedule from the Indian government.
This will be largest number of flights coming in from different countries since 7 May when India started the mammoth repatriation exercise to bring in Indians stranded abroad due to the novel coronavirus pandemic that has caused 4.1 million infections and claimed more than 286,000 lives worldwide.
While four of Tuesday’s flights are bringing Indians from the Gulf region, five are to come in from Southeast Asia. The other three flights are expected from the UK, US and Bangladesh.