Two Myanmar students evacuated from Wuhan on Indian Air Force plane

Sub-title: 

The pair were unable to return with a previous batch because one was ill and the other was travelling

Description: 

"The Indian Air Force has evacuated two Myanmar students from the Chinese city of Wuhan after they were declared free of coronavirus. The pair were unable to join 61 students who flew back to Myanmar early this month because one was ill and another was travelling outside of Wuhan, a Myanmar embassy official in Beijing told Myanmar Now, requesting anonymity. They joined dozens of mostly Indian nationals on the Air Force flight to New Delhi, which departed around 2am on Thursday morning local time. “They will be quarantined for 14 days and will be brought to Myanmar,” the official said. Myanmar was making plans to bring them home when India contacted several embassies with an offer to allow some foreign nationals on the return flight of a plane carrying medical supplies to the city. The two evacuees had been doing further studies under a Myanmar foreign ministry programme in Wuhan when the city became the epicenter of a global panic around the new flu-like virus that emerged there in late December. India’s Globemaster plane was carrying 76 Indians, 23 Bangladeshis, and nationals from the Maldives, the US, China, and South Korea, on the flight out of the city, Indian ambassador to China Vikram Misri wrote on Twitter..."

Creator/author: 

Khin Moh Moh Lwin

Source/publisher: 

"Myanmar Now" (Myanmar)

Date of Publication: 

2020-02-28

Date of entry: 

2020-02-29

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  • Individual Documents

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Countries: 

Myanmar

Language: 

English

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text

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    • Good