UK announces 12 more chartered flights to evacuate its citizens from India amid Covid

Following up on its mission to evacuate British nationals stranded in India amid COVID-19 pandemic, United Kingdom on Friday anunced 12 ditional charter flights. This anuncement by British High Commission comes shortly after it anunced its first batch of 7 charter flights back on April 6 to evacuate British nationals from Delhi, Mumbai, and Goa.  se 19 flights will evacuate a total of 5000 people from India. As of April 6, re were over 35,000 British Nationals stranded in India. Meanwhile, first charter flight from India reached London Stanste on Thursday morning with 317 British nationals on board from Goa.

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"We are doing all we can to get thousands of British travellers in India home. This is a huge and complex operation which also involves working with Indian Government to enable people to move within India to get on se flights," said UK Minister of State for South Asia and Commonwealth, Lord (Tariq) Ahm of Wimbledon

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Schedule of flights

embassy also anunced schedule of 12 flights. Three of 12 flights will take off from Amritsar on April 13, 17 and 19. Two flights are scheduled to embark from Ahmedab on April 13, 15 and two from Goa on April 14, 16.One flight each will take off from Goa, Thiruvananthapuram Hyderab, Kolkata and Chennai during time period from April 15 to 20. "Over 300 people arrived from Goa on Thursday morning, 1,400 more will arrive over Easter weekend and se 12 flights next week will bring back thousands more," ded UK Minister. 

(With ncy Inputs)

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