Thiruvananthapuram: Amid the nation-wide lockdown, the rst ight from Kerala to the UK took off on
Wednesday evening with 268 tourists who had been stranded in south India since the coronavirus
pandemic put a check on public transportation.
The British Airways plane left the state capital at 7:30pm with London as the destination and Kochi as a stopover to pick up 158 passengers. As many as 110 tourists boarded from here, a press release said on Wednesday night.
The passengers included seven who had tested positive for COVID-19 and were treated successfully in Kochi. They were part of a group of 19 Britons.
This is the third aircraft to repatriate stranded passengers in Kerala from Europe since the lockdown. An Air India aircraft with 232 passengers left for Germany on March 31. Four days later, the second aircraft ew 112 people to France.
Deputy High Commissioner, British Deputy High Commission, Bengaluru, Jeremy Pilmore-Bedford was at the Kochi airport supervising the repatriation operations.
Out of the 268 tourists, there are a few from Austria, Canada, Portugal, Ireland, Lithuania among others. The spread of COVID-19 had led Kerala to impose a state-wide shutdown on March 23. The next day, the Union government announced a similar exigency across the country for three weeks and subsequently till May 3.
16/04/20 Manorama Online
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Wednesday evening with 268 tourists who had been stranded in south India since the coronavirus
pandemic put a check on public transportation.
The British Airways plane left the state capital at 7:30pm with London as the destination and Kochi as a stopover to pick up 158 passengers. As many as 110 tourists boarded from here, a press release said on Wednesday night.
The passengers included seven who had tested positive for COVID-19 and were treated successfully in Kochi. They were part of a group of 19 Britons.
This is the third aircraft to repatriate stranded passengers in Kerala from Europe since the lockdown. An Air India aircraft with 232 passengers left for Germany on March 31. Four days later, the second aircraft ew 112 people to France.
Deputy High Commissioner, British Deputy High Commission, Bengaluru, Jeremy Pilmore-Bedford was at the Kochi airport supervising the repatriation operations.
Out of the 268 tourists, there are a few from Austria, Canada, Portugal, Ireland, Lithuania among others. The spread of COVID-19 had led Kerala to impose a state-wide shutdown on March 23. The next day, the Union government announced a similar exigency across the country for three weeks and subsequently till May 3.
16/04/20 Manorama Online
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