Massive India repatriation begins with flights from UAE

Massive India repatriation begins with flights from UAE

An Indian woman carries a sleeping child as she waits at the Dubai International Airport before leaving the Gulf Emirate on a flight back to her country, on May 7, 2020, amid the novel coronavirus pandemic crisis.. DUBAI: The first wave of a massive exercise to repatriate hundreds of thousands of Indians stuck abroad began Thursday, with two flights departing from the United Arab Emirates.. "We have one or two flights planned every day now for the next five or six days," Consul General Vipul told AFP at Dubai airport.. A flight planned for Thursday from Qatar has been postponed until the weekend.. "There are so many people who have lost their jobs - they're literally going hungry," Yasin, a 50-year-old restaurant manager who is now out of a job, told AFP as he checked in for his flight.. Qatar's migrant workers 'beg for food' amid coronavirus outbreak /node/1671066/middle-east. LONDON: Migrant workers in Qatar are having to beg for food as the country struggles to cope with one of the world's highest rates of coronavirus infections.. Revealed: How coronavirus outbreak is shining a light on violations inside Qatar's labor camps. Amnesty slams Qatar's expulsion of migrant workers during coronavirus