234 INDIANS REACH INDIA FROM CORONAVIRUS-HIT IRAN
Bureau,Odishabarta
DELHI: At least 234 Indians, including students and pilgrims, who were stranded in coronavirus-hit Iran, reached India early on Sunday. This was informed by external affairs minister S Jaishankar.
A Mahan Air flight carrying the Indians onboard landed in Mumbai. Among the 234 people, 131 of them are students and the rest are pilgrims.
S Jaishankar thanked Iranian authorities for helping India in the evacuation of its nationals. In the past few days, India has carried out several evacuations of Indians nationals from Iran.
Iran is among the worst affected country from the coronavirus with 12,729 cases and 611 deaths so far.
The first batch consisting of 58 nationals were brought back in a C17 military transport aircraft on Tuesday followed by another evacuation of 44 individuals on Friday.
Meanwhile, 84 positive cases of coronavirus have been reported so far from across India.
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