The flight, departing from the Indian capital of New Delhi, landed at the Can Tho International Airport in the Mekong Delta early in the morning. Passengers onboard include people in very difficult situations, stranded tourists, engineers, businessmen and nearly 200 monks and nuns who’d gone for retreats at Buddhist institutes in India.

340 Vietnamese repatriated from India after long wait, arduous journeys.

All passengers are being quarantined in Can Tho.

The green light from the Vietnamese government for carrying out the repatriation came last Thursday, Nguyen Sanh Chau, Vietnam's ambassador to India, Nepal and Bhutan. 

He said the launch of the repatriation flight at this time was extremely difficult as the country of 1.3 billion people with a large area and complex procedures had been placed under a nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of the Covid-19 epidemic.

The final flight, between New Delhi and Can Tho, took four hours and 30 minutes.

In the last few months, several special flights have repatriated thousands of Vietnamese from several countries and territories including Canada, France, Japan, Russia, the UAE and the U.S., and other Southeast Asian countries. Passengers paid their own fares.

Civil aviation authorities have said another 4,000 or so Vietnamese citizens are to be repatriated by mid-June.

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Source: VnExpress