{"id":15933,"date":"2020-07-27T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T07:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=15933"},"modified":"2020-07-27T12:00:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T07:00:14","slug":"india-repatriates-814000-citizens-stranded-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/15933","title":{"rendered":"India repatriates 814,000 citizens stranded abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW DELHI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Indian government has repatriated 814,000 citizens stranded abroad amid the coronavirus pandemic since May, the country&#8217;s civil aviation minister said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than 814K stranded Indians have returned through various means under VBM [Vande Bharat Mission] since 6 May 2020, out of which more than 270K returned on flights from 53 countries. Now we prepare to dovetail Phase-4 of VBM into Phase-5 from 1st August 2020 &amp; bring back more Indian citizens,\u201d Hardeep Singh Puri said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>After the COVID-19 pandemic started this year, the international flight operations suspended globally.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian government in May launched an operation dubbed Vande Bharat Mission to evacuate citizens stranded in many countries due to COVID-19 restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>The government had said \u201cit came as a much needed relief to the Indians abroad and to their near and dear at home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmong other destinations, Ph-5 will connect India with USA, Canada, Qatar, Oman, UAE, Singapore, UK, Frankfurt, Paris, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, New Zealand, Philippines &amp; more. Like we did earlier, more destinations &amp; flights will be added as this phase progresses,\u201d Puri said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDetails about ticket bookings will be shared by @airindiain @FlyWithIX &amp; other airlines shortly. It is our earnest effort to reach out to every stranded &amp; distressed Indian &amp; facilitate their evacuation &amp; outbound travel. I request you to kindly exercise patience &amp; bear with us,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI The Indian government has repatriated 814,000 citizens stranded abroad amid the coronavirus pandemic since May, the country&#8217;s civil aviation minister said on Sunday. \u201cMore than 814K stranded Indians have returned through various means under VBM [Vande Bharat Mission] since 6 May 2020, out of which more than 270K returned on flights from 53 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15935,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15933\/revisions\/15935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}