INS Jalashwa Sets Sail from Male to Kochi with 698 Indians as Part of Vande Bharat Mission

“Total 595 males and 103 females have boarded INS Jalashwa. 19 women are pregnant. The ship has departed from Male,” the Navy officers added.

When the ship arrived on the port of Male, the Defence Attache visited it to debate and coordinate procedures for embarkation, they stated.

“Baggage disinfection stations, medical screening and reception desks at the jetty were set up to ensure safe embarkation while following social distancing norms,” the officers stated.

Priority was accorded to pregnant girls and youngsters to embark the ship first and bunk allocation was additionally undertaken by the ship’s crew catering to age and medical necessities, they added.

Air India will function 64 repatriation flights between May 7 and May 14 whereas the Navy has deployed two ships as India rolled out an enormous evacuation operation on Tuesday to deliver again 1000’s of its nationals stranded overseas as a result of coronavirus-triggered lockdown.

From the Gulf international locations to Malaysia and the UK to the US, the multi-agency operation christened Vande Bharat Mission will see the state-owned airline function non-scheduled industrial flights until May 14 to ferry round 15,000 Indian nationals from 12 international locations.

Inside this mission, the Navy had launched Operation Samudra Setu (Sea Bridge) below which it dispatched two ships to Male to begin the primary section of the evacuation operations from May 8.