Repatriation flight of Air India lands at Karippur airport

MALAPPURAM: As part of the massive repatriation exercise named 'Vande Bharat Mission' to evacuate stranded Indian nationals in other countries, IX344

Air India Express

flight carrying a total 182 expatriates including five infants from Dubai(UAE) landed at Karippur International

Airport

around 10.35pm.


Among the passengers the most number of people are from Malappuram district. Others are from

Kozhikode

, Palakkad, Wayanad, Kannur, Kasargod, Kottayam, Alappuzha and Thiruvananthapuram districts.

According to the official sources, those who require emergency medical care, pregnant women, children below ten and four persons who are senior citizen would be allowed home quarantine. They would be under the surveillance of health authorities. The asymptomatic persons from the district would be shifted to

Covid Care

Centre arranged at Safa Hospital in

Kalikavu

near

Nilambur

, where 100 isolation rooms are ready to accommodate pravasis. The passengers from other districts would be shifted to their home districts in KSRTC buses and taxi vehicles.

Meanwhile, the Malappuram natives who landed in Nedumbassery airport in Abudhabi-Kochi Air India Express flight would be sent to isolation centre arranged in Calicut University hostel in Thenhipalam.

Adressing media at Malappuram on Thursday, higher education minister, KT Jaleel said that those who are under observation in isolation rooms in Covid Care Centres would be allowed to go back home after seven days, if they have no symptoms of virus infection. They would be in self quarantine at home for seven more days and they would be under surveillance of health authorities during this period.

Meanwhile, Malappuram district administration has taken over seven more hotels and tourist homes at Karippur to set up Covid Care Centres, apart from 212 existing centres. Plaza International hotel, Hotel Benzy Palace, Le Castle Tourist Home, Paradise Lodge, Riya Residency, Sahir Residency, Blue Wave and Pulikkal Tower hotel near Karippur airport were taken over on Thursday.