About 2000 Koreans leave for their country amid lockdown


About 2000 Korean nationals have flown out of India for their country of origin using specially arranged chartered flights amid COVID-19-induced lockdown here.
Nine chartered Korean Air flights flew from airports in New Delhi (4), Mumbai (2), Chennai (2), and Bengaluru (1) between April 5 and 27.  India has imposed a ban on the operations of scheduled passenger flights domestic or international till May 31. Only the cargo and evacuation flights are in operation at present.

India has a total strength of about 15,000 Korean nationals staying in various cities across India – New Delhi, Gurugram, Noida, Chennai, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, and others. Delhi and NCR towns host about 4,000 Koreans while the rest of them are scattered across other cities in India. Read more...

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