{"id":320422,"date":"2020-02-27T03:07:24","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T03:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320422"},"modified":"2020-02-27T03:07:24","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T03:07:24","slug":"iaf-relief-flight-from-china-brings-back-76-indians-36-nationals-from-7-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/iaf-relief-flight-from-china-brings-back-76-indians-36-nationals-from-7-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF relief flight from China brings back 76 Indians, 36 nationals from 7 countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-320423 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IAF.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1006\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/IAF.jpg 1006w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/IAF-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/IAF-768x397.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/IAF-696x360.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/IAF-813x420.jpg 813w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1006px) 100vw, 1006px\" \/>An Indian Air Force special aircraft brought back a group of 112 Indians and foreign nationals from the coronavirus outbreak epicentre, Wuhan, early on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Indian Ambassador to China Vikram Misri earlier in a tweet said, \u201c76 Indian nationals are returning home on this flight, which also has on board 23 nationals from Bangladesh, 6 from China, 2 each from Myanmar and Maldives and one each from South Africa, USA and Madagascar. Wish them all a safe journey and good health.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The C-17 Globemaster military aircraft delivered more than 15 tons of medical assistance comprising masks, gloves and other emergency medical equipment the virus-hit Chinese city of Wuhan and on its return, the flight has brought back 76 Indians and 36 nationals from seven countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar in a tweet said, \u201cOn its return from Wuhan, the IAF flight has brought back 76 Indians &amp; 36 nationals from 7 countries &#8211; Bangladesh, Myanmar, Maldives, China, South Africa, USA and Madagascar. Appreciate facilitation by Chinese government.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">All evacuated passengers undergo 14 days quarantine on arrival in India. All those on the first two flights have tested negative for COVID-19 and have since left the quarantine facilities. The passengers on board the third flight will also undergo similar quarantine on arrival in India, the release said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Indian government has been closely following the developments in China in the wake of the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic in December 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian Air Force special aircraft brought back a group of 112 Indians and foreign nationals from the coronavirus outbreak epicentre, Wuhan, early on Thursday. Indian Ambassador to China Vikram Misri earlier in a tweet said, \u201c76 Indian nationals are returning home on this flight, which also has on board 23 nationals from Bangladesh, 6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":320423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[2047],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320424,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320422\/revisions\/320424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/320423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}