Daijiworld Media Network – Mangaluru (AM)
Mangaluru, May 18: National carrier Air India's second special flight to Mangaluru from Dubai landed at Mangaluru International Airport with 178 passengers on Monday, May 18 at 7.45 pm.
As many as 178 passengers - 99 male, 67 female, 11 children and one infant, landed at the airport.
Deputy commissioner Sindhu B Rupesh, police commissioner Dr P S Harsha, airport director V V Rao, additional deputy commissioner M J Roopa, IAS officer Rahul Shinde, district health officer Dr Ramachandra Bayari and senior officials of health department were present.
As informed by the airport director earlier, porter service is arranged at the airport to help passengers in loading luggage.
Money transfer, SIM distribution, ration kit distribution and food arrangement was done for the passengers at the airport. After completing the formalities, including immigration check and filling the self-declaration form, the passengers were screened and tested to ensure they were asymptomatic and free from the Covid-19 virus.
Bus facility was arranged to take the returnees for the 14-day institutional quarantine in hotels and other places in the coastal city. Swab samples of the returnees will be collected on Tuesday, May 19.
Passengers will also be asked to download the mandatory Quarantine app, the Aroygya Sethu app and Apthamitra app before leaving the airport for contact tracing later.
As part of the Indian government's evacuation programme 'Vande Bharat Mission’, flights from India are bringing back stranded Indians from different parts of the world in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. The first special flight from Dubai to Mangaluru landed in the city on May 12 with 177 passengers.