22 Oct
The relief flight of Air India landed at Yangon International Airport yesterday afternoon, carrying 63 Myanmar nationals who wanted to return to home from India during COVID-19 outbreak. A relief flight of Myanmar National Airlines also brought 30 Myanmar nationals back from Thailand in the same evening.
In addition, 90 Myanmar seamen who were stranded in UAE returned home by the Myanmar Airways International (MAI) relief flight under the arrangement of Myanmar Embassy in Riyadh on the same day. As they arrived in Yangon, the officials from the Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population, the Ministry of Health and Sports, and the Yangon Region government helped for immigration process, medical tests, and arrangement for their 7-day quarantine at the specific areas or the designated hotels, and 7-day quarantine at home.
For the repatriation of Myanmar citizens and seamen who were stranded in foreign countries by relief flights and chartered flights in accordance with the instructions from National-Level Central Committee on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs cooperated with the relevant ministries and Myanmar embassies from respective countries.
MNA (Translated by Khine Thazin Han)
