Vande Bharat Mission flight from Qatar lands at M’luru

Mangaluru: The first Vande Bharat Mission flight from Hamad International Airport, Qatar, carrying 185 passengers on board, landed at Mangaluru International Airport, at 6.50pm on Friday.
Yatish Ullal, assistant commissioner, Puttur, who is in charge of Vande Bharat Mission and repatriation flights, said that the flight reached on time, and passengers comprised senior citizens, pregnant women, children, the ailing and those on visit visas. All the passengers underwent health screening, after which they were sent for institutional quarantine for seven days. Their throat swabs will be collected and tested for Covid-19 after five days.
The Mangaluru International Airport has handled many repatriation flights this week. As many as 248 stranded passengers from Kuwait and Muscat arrived in two separate flights, which landed at the airport on Wednesday. On June 16, a chartered flight from Sharjah, UAE, arranged by Praveen Shetty, chairman of Fortune Group of Hotels, UAE, and president of Karnataka Non-Resident Indian Forum, landed with 174 passengers on board.