With the arrival of flight UL 1188 which brought 125 Sri Lankan students from Kolkata on Thursday (30), the operation to bring home 1065 Sri Lankan students based in the South Asian region over 10 days, has reached a successful conclusion, says the Ministry of Foreign Relations.
Commencing on 21 April 2020, a total of 9 Sri Lankan Airlines special flights were used to destinations in India (Punjab, Mumbai, Coimbatore, Bangalore, New Delhi and Kolkata) Pakistan (Karachi and Lahore), Nepal (Kathmandu) and Bangladesh (Dhaka), to repatriate the Sri Lankan students who had expressed their desire to return to Sri Lanka in the wake of the COVID 19 Pandemic, the Foreign Ministry said in a media release.
Those repatriated also included public and military officials who had completed study and training programmes in the respective countries and had to return to take up official duties back in Sri Lanka.
Currently, all returnees are undergoing mandatory quarantine at facilities afforded by the Sri Lankan government, the release read further.
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