INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KATHMANDU: The airplane, which will bring Nepali students home from Hubei Province of China, has taken off.
Government has sent a chartered
Nepal Airlines plane to Wuhan, the epicentre of coronavirus outbreak, to evacuate Nepali students who have been stranded there since the
outbreak as the city has been under a lockdown to prevent the spread of infection.
The aircraft is scheduled to land at Wuhan Tianhe
International Airport at 9:00 pm (China time)
Three pilots, six crew members, an engineer, a loadmaster and a health team comprising a doctor, nurses and paramedics from Nepal Army will
be flying to Wuhan.
A total of 185 Nepalis will reach Kathmandu on Sunday, according to the Nepali Embassy in China
They will land at Tribhuvan International Airport at 2:15 am on Sunday.
Evacuees from Hubei to reach Nepal tomorrow
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