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Vande Bharat: First flight with 163 lands in Hyd from Kuwait

Vande Bharat: First flight with 163 lands in Hyd from Kuwait
Hyderabad: The first flight to Hyderabad, organised as part of the Vande Bharat Mission, landed at the city’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport from Kuwait, late on Saturday night.
The A320 Air India aircraft, AI 988, that departed at 3.26pm (local time) from Kuwait with 163 passengers on board, touched down at the city facility around 10 pm (IST).
From there, the passengers were ferried to quarantine centres identified by the government.
“About six or seven star hotels in various parts of the city have been turned into quarantine centres, where stranded passengers, being brought to Hyderabad from various countries, will be kept for 14 days,” said an official. “The passengers are being provided this facility at a nominal rate.”
Those unable to pay for the hotels, were accommodated in government hospitals for free. “Though there are three categories of paid quarantine, the least of them of Rs 5,000 has been removed, and instead free quarantine has been assured for workers arriving from the Gulf depending on their financial status. Workers from Kuwait have been made eligible for that,” Emigrants Welfare Forum president Mandha Bheem Reddy told TOI.
Airport sources said all safety precautions were adhered to while facilitating the movement of passengers.
“All arriving passengers and aircraft crew were escorted out of the aircraft in batches of 20 to 25 people. Each passenger was screened by thermal cameras positioned at the aerobridge exit by airport health officials as per the directives of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare prior to immigration formalities. The entire airport was sanitised, including the conveyor belt and trolleys. Social distancing was maintained at every step,” a source said.
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