{"id":341474,"date":"2020-03-11T12:24:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T06:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=341474"},"modified":"2020-03-11T12:51:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T07:21:39","slug":"iaf-aircraft-to-leave-for-coronavirus-hit-iran-tonight-to-bring-back-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iaf-aircraft-to-leave-for-coronavirus-hit-iran-tonight-to-bring-back-indians\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF aircraft to leave for coronavirus-hit Iran tonight to bring back Indians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian Air Force transport aircraft will be sent to Iran on Monday night to bring back Indians stranded in the coronavirus-hit nation, official sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The C-17 Globemaster military aircraft is expected to depart from the Hindon airbase around 8 pm, they said.<\/p>\n<p>About 2,000 Indians are living in Iran, a country that has witnessed increasing  numbers of coronavirus cases in the last few days.<\/p>\n<p>Three days ago, a Mahan airline plane had brought swab samples of 300 Indians from Iran to India.<\/p>\n<p>The Union Health Ministry was initially considering setting up a laboratory in Iran to test Indians living in the country for coronavirus. However, the plan was shelved due to logistical issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian Air Force transport aircraft will be sent to Iran on Monday night to bring back Indians stranded in the coronavirus-hit nation, official sources said. The C-17 Globemaster military aircraft is expected to depart from the Hindon airbase around 8 pm, they said. About 2,000 Indians are living in Iran, a country that has witnessed increasing numbers of coronavirus cases in the last few days. Three days ago, a Mahan airline plane had brought swab samples of 300 Indians from Iran to India. The Union Health Ministry was initially considering setting up a laboratory in Iran to test Indians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}