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Covid-19: First repatriation flight with 181 passengers from Oman to India takes-off

Among the first passengers were pregnant women, patients and stranded citizens.

TAS News Service

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Saturday, May 9, 2020

MUSCAT: A total of 181 stranded Indian passengers took-off from Muscat International Airport on Saturday in the first flight of the evacuation exercise taking place due to COVID-19 pandemic.

The Air India Express IX 0442 flight took-off from Muscat at 5:24 pm.

According to the list monitored by The Arabian Stories, there are 77 medical emergency cases, 48 pregnant and elderly passengers, 30 passengers visitors, 22 workers and four infants in the flight.

The Air India Express flight will arrive in Kochi airport at 10:08pm (India time).

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