{"id":322989,"date":"2020-05-05T03:56:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T03:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322989"},"modified":"2020-05-05T03:56:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T03:56:23","slug":"three-ships-sent-to-bring-back-indians-from-maldives-uae-defence-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/three-ships-sent-to-bring-back-indians-from-maldives-uae-defence-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Three ships sent to bring back Indians from Maldives, UAE: Defence Official"},"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-322990 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/INS-shardul.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"547\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/05\/INS-shardul.jpg 547w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/05\/INS-shardul-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/05\/INS-shardul-100x70.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" \/>India has sent three naval ships to bring back its citizens from Maldives and UAE who have been stranded there due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a defence spokesperson said on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The warships &#8211; INS Shardul, INS Magar and INS Jalashwa have been deployed to evacuate Indians stranded in Maldives and UAE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The evacuation of lakhs of Indian citizens stranded abroad due to COVID-19 lockdown will begin from May 7 in a phased manner, the government said on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Government of India will be facilitating the return of Indian nationals stranded abroad on compelling grounds in a phased manner. The travel would be arranged by aircraft and naval ships, the Ministry of Home Affairs said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Medical screening of passengers would be done before taking the flight. Only asymptomatic passengers would be allowed to travel. During the journey, all these passengers would have to follow the protocols, such as the Health Protocols, issued by the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Civil Aviation, the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has sent three naval ships to bring back its citizens from Maldives and UAE who have been stranded there due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a defence spokesperson said on Tuesday. The warships &#8211; INS Shardul, INS Magar and INS Jalashwa have been deployed to evacuate Indians stranded in Maldives and UAE. The evacuation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":322990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[574,13015],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322989"}],"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=322989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322991,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322989\/revisions\/322991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/322990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}