UK Mission in India all set to evacuate British Nationals stuck Amid lockdown

Team Udayavani, Mar 31, 2020, 11:59 AM IST

Amid coronavirus lockdown, many British nationals are stranded in India and The United Kingdom mission has asked its nationals to send their details as London announced worldwide flight package to evacuate British people from different countries.

In a video message on Twitter UK High Commission to India, Jan Thompson, asked British nationals to ensure they were ready with their passports and travel documents for departure and the timings and departure locations of the flights from India will be announced in the coming days.

Thousands of UK citizens are said to be stuck in India as PM Narendra Modi announced that the entire population of 1.3 billion people would be banned from leaving their homes for three weeks as all domestic and international flights were grounded.