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KATHMANDU
In doing so, national flag carriers, Nepal Airlines Corporation and Himalaya Airlines along with other foreign airlines are conducting chartered flight services from August 17 to bring back Nepali from foreign destinations.
Nepal Airlines will make charter rescue flights up to 31 August while Himalaya Airlines has made public its willingness to operate the service upto 30 August. Following the rapid spread of coronavirus infection in different parts of the country including the federal capital Kathmandu, the government has reviewed its earlier decision to resume the operation of domestic and international flights from 17 August. Taking into consideration the recent situation, the government has decided to put off the commercial flights up to 31 August.
However, rescue flights to repatriate Nepalis from different destinations will continue. The government has already decided to repatriate 500 Nepalis daily through chartered flights. Among them 200 would be repatriated at government cost whereas 300 others would have to pay on their own.
As many as 51,441 Nepali have already been repatriated from different counties as of 14 August according to the COVID-10 Crisis Management Centre.
According to the Tribhuvan International Airport, Nepal Airlines is scheduled to conduct rescue flights from Doha, Himalaya Airlines from Kuala Lumpur and Doha and Fly Dubai from Dubai today to repatriate Nepali from the destination countries.
