Cairo airport sources said that a plane belonging to EgyptAir departed today, Tuesday, for Kuwait at the beginning of an air bridge to return the thousands of Egyptians stranded there.
The sources pointed out that the returning Egyptians will be transferred to some university cities to spend a 14-day quarantine period as a precautionary measure to confront the Corona virus.
The Kuwaiti Ministry of Interior had said in the early hours of Monday dawn that the security services had broken up "riots and chaos" for a number of those in shelters designated for violators of the residence law, who were calling on the Egyptian authorities to return them to their country.
The ministry stated that representatives from the Egyptian embassy in Kuwait came to the site and informed their nationals that they would start preparing the return flight schedules and evacuating them to their country this week.
She said that a number of protesters had been arrested and "transferred to the competent authority to take legal measures against them."
The sources said at Cairo Airport that the first flight that departed this morning will return "with more than 300 Egyptians stranded in Kuwait, in coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where priority will be given to returning women, children and the elderly who are stranded."
She added that a second plane will leave today for Kuwait "to return more than 300 others who are stranded, where they will be examined medically and transferred to the university cities of Al-Azhar for a period of 14 days."
The air bridge to return the stranded in Kuwait comes in the framework of flights excluded from the decision to suspend international flights in Egypt, which have been in effect since March 19, to confront the Corona virus, and the air bridge flights that Egypt began April 21 to return Egyptians stranded abroad.
During the last period, the Ministry of Tourism, in coordination with the Ministry of Health, allocated 11 hotels and a tourist village in Marsa Alam in the south of the Red Sea to receive Egyptians returning from abroad to subject them to quarantine for 14 days to ensure that they are free of the Corona virus.
Egypt: An air bridge to return thousands of stranded people in Kuwait and transfer them to university cities
2020-05-05T10:30:14.260Z
Sources at Cairo Airport said that a plane belonging to Egypt Air left today, Tuesday, for Kuwait at the beginning of an air bridge to return the thousands of Egyptians stranded there. The sources indicated that the returning Egyptians will be transferred to some university cities to spend the quarantine period for 14 days within
Source: emara