No fewer than 312 Indian citizens have departed Nigeria back to their country due to the coronavirus pandemic.
It was gathered that the aircraft departed the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos on Sunday morning.
The about 10-hour flight is expected to land at the Cochin International Airport in Kerala later today barring any challenge.
The High Commission of India in Abuja confirmed this in a tweet, noting that the flight was operated by a Nigerian airline, Air Peace.
The Commission added that two more flights were scheduled for June 13 (Lagos-Delhi) and June 14 (Lagos-Mumbai) while advising citizens based in other parts of the country and West Africa, who intend to go home, to consider joining the flights in Lagos.
India recently eased the world’s biggest lockdown.
The world’s second-most populous nation has recorded over 180,000 confirmed cases with almost 7,000 deaths.
