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COVID-19: America starts airlifting citizens from India

Chartered planes will fly from New Delhi to San Francisco and from Mumbai to Atlanta as the US has begun airlifting its citizens from India

The US has started airlifting American nationals from India who are stranded because of the coronavirus lockdown. 96 people travelled from Amritsar to New Delhi by flight. From there they will take their flight to America. The chartered planes will fly from New Delhi to San Francisco and from Mumbai to Atlanta.

 

Reports state that the New Delhi flights are for those in northern and eastern states and that the US has also planned flights from Kolkata, Dehradun, Amritsar, and Chandigarh to connect to the San Francisco chartered flight.