Coronavirus outbreak: Air India’s B747 plane to depart from Delhi airport today
Air India’s 423-seater jumbo B747 plane will depart from Delhi airport at 12.30 pm on Friday to Beijing to evacuate Indian nationals who are in China as the neighbouring country deals with novel Coronavirus outbreak.
“The B747 plane is all set to depart from Delhi at 12.30 pm. It came from Mumbai on Friday morning only,” said a senior airline official.
Five doctors from Health Ministry will be going in B747 aircraft to China, said the Air India CMD. The official also said that the B747 plane will be at Beijing airport for about two or three hours.
The Government has reached out to over 600 Indians living in China’s Hubei province, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak, to ascertain their willingness to be brought back to India.
