India sent out a military transportation airplane with an expert medical group on board to Iran on Monday night to restore Indians stranded in the coronavirus-hit country.
According to the Indian Flying Force, its C-17 Globemaster military aircraft left for Iran from the Hindon airbase at 8.30 p.m.
” An IAF C-17 ‘Globemaster’ airplane got air-borne today at 2030 hrs from Hindan airbase to airlift Indian residents from Iran. The aircraft has a specialist medical group on board. Indian citizens will be flown to Hindan where medical centers including quarantine have actually been established,” the IAF tweeted.
The C-17 airplane “will return to India in the early hours tomorrow [on Tuesday] early morning. IAF is guaranteeing the required operational and medical procedures remain in place for an expeditious and safe return of Indian citizens from Iran,” it stated in another tweet.
About 2,000 Indians are residing in Iran, a nation that has actually seen increasing varieties of COVID-19 cases in the last few days.
According to latest reports, 237 people have actually passed away of the virus infection in Iran while the variety of positive cases stands at around 7,000
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Monday made a surprise check out to Kashmir and satisfied parents of students stranded in coronavirus-hit Iran as well as tourism industry representatives, assuring both groups that the government was seized of their issues and all would be well.
Mr. Jaishankar, whose go to was kept under a veil of secrecy, drove directly from the airport to the Kashmir International Convention comple