{"id":60445,"date":"2020-01-31T15:38:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T07:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60445"},"modified":"2020-01-31T16:01:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T08:01:59","slug":"air-india-special-plane-flying-to-wuhan-to-airlift-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60445","title":{"rendered":"Air India special plane flying to Wuhan to airlift Indians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/air-india-plane_650x400_61474351147.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/air-india-plane_650x400_61474351147.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>NEW DELHI, Jan 31 (NNN-BSS) &#8212; An Air India special flight is ready to depart for Wuhan city in China\u2019s Hubei province for airlifting the Indians trapped in the region amid a raging coronavirus outbreak, official sources said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Boeing 747 will start from Mumbai and make a brief halt in Delhi, from where the Chinese city is six hours away by flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over 325 Indians are waiting to be picked up at Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak that claimed over 200 lives so far, media reports said here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foreign Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar earlier told reporters that the government has established contact with 600 of the estimated 1,200 Indians residing in Hubei province.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flight will include all necessary resources like masks, medical equipment, packed food, prescribed medicines along with a team of five doctors from the health ministry and paramedical personnel from the airline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flight will return to New Delhi Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crews have been instructed to only allow non-infected people into the aircraft equipped with masks, gloves and medicines, media reports said citing official sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India reported its first case of coronavirus infection on Thursday, identifying the patient as a Kerala student from Wuhan University. &#8212; NNN-BSS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Jan 31 (NNN-BSS) &#8212; An Air India special flight is ready to depart for Wuhan city in China\u2019s Hubei province for airlifting the Indians trapped in the region amid a raging coronavirus outbreak, official sources said. The Boeing 747 will start from Mumbai and make a brief halt in Delhi, from where the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":60459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60445"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}