Bahrainis flown home from UAE, Malaysia and Iran

TDT | Manama

Bahraini citizens were repatriated yesterday from the UAE, Malaysia and Iran. Bahrain’s Embassy in Abu Dhabi, in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, facilitated the return of Bahraini nationals stranded in the UAE through several evacuation flights from Abu Dhabi International Airport and Dubai International Airport.

Bahraini Ambassador Shaikh Khalid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa affirmed the keenness of the embassy to support and facilitate the return of Bahraini citizens following the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19). He added that the embassy has coordinated with Bahrain’s embassy in Japan along with the authorities in the UAE to evacuate six Bahraini students from Japan to Abu Dhabi, and then to Bahrain.

The Ambassador said that they had launched emergency hotlines to evacuate Bahraini citizens, adding that they have received more than 3,500 calls with inquiries about the crisis. He added that a total of around 400 Bahraini nationals have been evacuated from the UAE so far. Meanwhile, Bahrain’s Embassy in Kuala Lumpur has coordinated with the Ministry on the return of citizens from Malaysia. The Ministry posted several pictures of the repatriated Bahrainis on its official account on social networking service Twitter. Bahrain’s citizens from Iran returned to the Kingdom on a Gulf Air-operated flight, according to the Ministry of Health, which posted pictures of their arrival yesterday on Twitter.