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Coronavirus: Ship from Maldives arrives with 588 passengers

| @indiablooms | May 17, 2020, at 07:11 pm

Kochi/UNI: As many as 588 Indian nationals stranded in the Maldives due to COVID-19 induced international travel restrictions were brought home on Sunday on an Indian Navy warship.

The passengers including 70 women and 21 children, were brought here on board Navy vessel INS Jalashwa as part of the repatriation drive Operation Samudra Setu, official sources said.

There are 568 repatriates of Kerala, 15 of Tamil Nadu and three belonging to Telangana and two persons from Lakshadweep.

This is the third naval ship operated as part of the Vande Bharat mission to the city. On May 10, the vessel had brought home 698 Indian nationals from the Maldives.

Two days later, another Navy ship INS Magar had evacuated 202 Indian citizens from the Maldives to here.

In a tweet, High Commission of India in the Maldives has expressed its gratitude to the government of the island nation for ensuring safe repatriation of stranded Indian citizens.  

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