A relief flight of Myanmar Airways International (MAI) landed at Yangon International Airport yesterday, bringing back 164 Myanmar nationals stranded in Jordan and Israel under the arrangement of Myanmar Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel. Among them, 104 were from Jordan and 60 from Israel.

As they arrived in Yangon, officials from the Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population, the Ministry of Health and Sports, and the Yangon Region government helped for their 14-day facility quarantine period and 7-day home quarantine period in line with the regulations of immigration and medical checks.

To bring back the Myanmar citizens who are stranded in foreign countries by relief flights and chartered flights following the instructions of National-Level Central Committee on Prevention, Control and Treatment of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs cooperated with the relevant ministries and Myanmar embassies from respective countries.

So far, five relief flights had been conducted to pick up Myanmar nationals stuck in Jordan to date. Myanmar nationals from Israel were also brought back in the same flight yesterday.

MNA

(Translated by TTN)

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