WEB DESK
Air India will operate a special flight from Colombo to Mumbai next Friday for repatriating Indian nationals stranded in Sri Lanka. This will be the first flight from the neighboring country since the lockdown began over two months ago.
Indian High Commission in Colombo said more such flights can be expected in near future. It said, priority will be given to compelling cases in distress including migrant workers who have been laid off, medical emergency, students and those suffering personal losses.
There are over one thousand Indian nationals stuck in Sri Lanka due to COVID crisis and have been waiting for returning back home. Around hundreds of them are tourists who came for holiday for few days but got stuck due to stopping of international flights. Indian nationals constitute the maximum number of tourists to the neighboring country.
