A total of 132 Myanmar seamen stranded in foreign countries because of the suspension of commercial flights returned home by relief flight yesterday.

Myanmar Embassy in Riyadh and Myanmar Seafarers’ Employment Services Federation jointly organized the relief flight of Myanmar National Airlines to repatriate the Myanmar nationals from Dubai. The flight landed at Yangon International Airport in late evening.

The Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population, the Ministry of Health and Sports and the Yangon Region government provided them with proper medical tests and arranged 7-day quarantine at specific places or designated hotels, followed by the 7-day home quarantine.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been working with Myanmar embassies in foreign countries, local ministries and shipping companies/organizations to bring back Myanmar citizens stranded abroad in accordance with the guidance of the National-Level Central Committee on Prevention, Control and Treatment of COVID-19.

MNA

(Translated by Kyaw Zin Tun)

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