A total of 191 overseas Myanmar citizens; 150 from Singapore and 41 from Thailand, who were stranded abroad due to the suspension of commercial flights, returned home by relief flight yesterday.

Myanmar National Airways (MNA)’s relief flight that carried the Myanmar nationals from Singapore and Myanmar Airways International (MAI)’s flight that brought back the nationals from Thailand landed at the Yangon International Airport in the evening. Yesterday’s flights are nineteenth batch of repatriation from Singapore and ninth batch of repatriation from Thailand.

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 14-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 and local ministries concerned to bring back citizens stranded abroad due to the suspension of international commercial flights, in accordance with the guidance of the National-Level Central Committee on Prevention, Control and Treatment of COVID-19. Until now a total of 16,651 Myanmar nationals abroad were repatriated by relief flight and special flight.

MNA (Translated by Kyaw Zin Tun)

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Ref; The Global New Light of Myanmar