{"id":321047,"date":"2020-03-15T04:12:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T04:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321047"},"modified":"2020-03-15T04:12:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T04:12:51","slug":"coronavirus-air-india-flight-evacuates-211-students-stranded-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/coronavirus-air-india-flight-evacuates-211-students-stranded-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Air India Flight evacuates 211 students stranded in Italy"},"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-321048 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/stranded-students.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"715\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/stranded-students.jpg 715w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/stranded-students-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/stranded-students-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/stranded-students-696x513.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/stranded-students-570x420.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\" \/>A special Air India flight carrying 211 Indian students and seven compassionate cases, who were stuck in Italy after flights were cancelled due to the coronavirus, outbreak departed for India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201c211 students &amp; 7 compassionate cases departed by AI flight #Milan all those who helped us through this difficult situation. Special to @airindiain team &amp; Italian authorities. Consulate will continue to ensure welfare of all Indians in northern #Italy,\u201d Indian Consulate in Milan tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Another batch of 234 Indians stranded in Iran have also arrived in India. These included 131 students and 103 pilgrims, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201c234 Indians stranded in #Iran have arrived in India; including 131 students and 103 pilgrims. Thank you, Ambassador, @dhamugaddam and @India_in_Iran team for your efforts. Thank Iranian authorities,\u201d Jaishankar tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in India has risen to 93, according to the Health Ministry website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Indian Government has taken a number of proactive and timely measures such as travel restrictions, universal screening of passengers at airports and seaports, suspension of visas and self-quarantine measures to effectively prevent, contain and manage COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The identification of additional quarantine facilities, development of isolation wards, training of health workers &amp; doctors, ensuring adequate equipments, PPEs, medicines, masks etc., are being strengthened further in all States and UTs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">To check the shortages and black-marketing, Government has declared masks and hand sanitizers as essential commodities under Essential Commodities Act up to June 30, 2020. Under the Essential Commodities Act, States can ask manufacturers to enhance their production capacity of these items, to make the supply chain smooth.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special Air India flight carrying 211 Indian students and seven compassionate cases, who were stuck in Italy after flights were cancelled due to the coronavirus, outbreak departed for India. \u201c211 students &amp; 7 compassionate cases departed by AI flight #Milan all those who helped us through this difficult situation. Special to @airindiain team &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":321048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[12762,12470,2334],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321047"}],"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=321047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321049,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321047\/revisions\/321049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/321048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}