National / Refugees from Kabul who landed in Delhi, among them 2 tested positive for Covid-19

Zoom News : Aug 23, 2021, 06:45 PM

Two individuals who landed in Delhi on Monday after being evacuated from Afghanistan’s capital Kabul had been nice for coronavirus disease (Covid-19), the information corporation reported. Sub-divisional magistrate Rajendra Kumar informed the information corporation that the 2 passengers had been despatched to the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan (LNJP) Hospital.


The inflamed passengers are the various 2d batch of 146 Indian nationals who landed in Delhi from Qatar’s capital Doha on Monday. They had been evacuated to the middle-eastern country from the war-torn Kabul earlier. “Bringing Indians returned from Afghanistan. [The] the second batch of 146 Indian nationals, who had been evacuated from Afghanistan to Doha, are being repatriated these days to India. Thank all people concerned for their support,” the Embassy of India in Qatar tweeted on Sunday.


Nearly 400 people, which includes Afghan lawmakers and Nepalese nationals had been delivered to India in 3 independent flights on Sunday as a part of the country's venture to evacuate its residents in addition to Afghan companions from Kabul.


A general of 168 passengers, which includes extra than 100 Indians and 23 Afghan Sikhs and Hindus, had been evacuated from Kabul to the Hindon airbase close to Delhi in a C-17 Indian Air Force (IAF) aircraft. Separately, 87 Indian residents and Nepalese nationals had been returned to Delhi from Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe in a special Air India flight, information corporation  reported.

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