NE NEWS SERVICE
MILAN, MARCH 15
A special Air India flight carrying 211 Indian students, who were stuck in Italy after flights were cancelled due to coronavirus outbreak, departed for India on Saturday.
The flight which took off from Milan also has seven compassionate cases, according to Indian consulate in Italy.
The evacuation by India was carried out after the World Health Organisation declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic and said that Europe is the new epicentre of the lethal virus.
Italy on Saturday (local time) reported 175 deaths from coronavirus, raising the toll to 1,411.
Earlier, Air India had announced the cancellation of all flights to Kuwait and Italy till April 30.
India has carried out evacuations from several countries in the past few weeks. It has brought back its citizens from China, Japan and Iran as the numbers of cases of coronavirus continue to surge in these countries.
