As many as 1,972 Indians have reached Maharashtra by the Union Government’s “Vande Bharat Abhiyan special flights from 10 countries.
Announcing this, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said here on Tuesday: “Thirteen special flights brought 822 people hailing from Mumbai, 1,025 from rest of Maharashtra and 125 from other States in the country”.
“We expect the Government to operate another 27 special flights to bring back the people from Maharashtra stranded in different countries over the coming weeks,” the chief minister said.
Till date, the highest number of 653 people came from United Kingdom, 243 from Singapore, 150 from the Philippines, 107 from Bangladesh, 107 from San Francisco, 208 from New York and 195 from Chicago (all USA), 201 from Malaysia, 78 from Ethiopia, 16 from Oman, 12 from Afghanistan and 2 from Kuwait, which is the lowest in the list. “All those who have returned from abroad have been sent to precautionary institutional quarantine for 14 days by the state government, including those from other states which are not ready to accept them,” Uddhav said.
“Arrangements have been made to send those from out of Mumbai to their respective districts,” he added.