Air India to send special flight to Milan today to bring back stranded Indians

Air
India will send a special flight to Milan in Italy today to bring back stranded
Indians. The flight will leave this afternoon and bring back the stranded
persons tomorrow. Additional Secretary, MEA, Dammu Ravi said, around 220
students are in and around Milan and the government’s priority is to bring them
back.

Five
fresh cases of Novel Corona Virus- COVID 19 have been reported in the country.
These are from Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. With
this the total number of COVID 19 cases has gone up to  81.

Joint
Secretary in Health Ministry Lav Agarwal said, out of the total positive cases,
64 patients are Indians, 16 Italians and 1 Canadian national. He said all the
infected patients are stable and there is no cause of worry.  He said, so far Government has evacuated 1031
persons including 48 foreign nationals.

He
said, till date, 890 evacuees from COVID-19 affected countries, have been
discharged after 14 days isolation and having tested negative.

Additional
Secretary in the Home Ministry, Anil Malik said from today, bus and train
services from Bangladesh will remain suspended till 15th April. He said, along
Indo-Nepal border only four check posts will remain operational.