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Merge 104.8 | 21 June 2020
The Indian Embassy in Oman has announced that an incoming Air India Express flight from Kochi has touched down at Muscat International Airport today [Sunday, June 21], returning 73 health workers to the Sultanate.
In a statement issued online, the Embassy confirmed that the 73 healthcare professionals, employed with the Ministry of Health, had been unable to return to resume their duties amid the pandemic and can now help boost Oman’s fight against COVID-19.
Also departing on the aircraft’s outbound leg from Muscat are Indian citizens being repatriated back to Kochi under Phase 2++ of the Republic’s Vande Bharat mission to bring home its nationals abroad.
As per the Embassy, a total of 23 flights from Oman to India have been scheduled as part of the mission between June 9-30.
Indian authorities in the southern state of Kerala have also announced on Friday [June 19] that compulsory PCR testing for Indian citizens in the Gulf wishing to return on chartered and Vande Bharat mission repatriation flights will now come into effect on Wednesday, June 24.
(Also read: India to operate two flights from Oman today, COVID-19 tests now mandatory for Kerala.)
