Kathmandu, Feb. 15: The wide-body aircraft of the national flag carrier, Nepal Airlines has taken off from Hubei, China with 175 Nepalis on board.
Of the 175 nationals, 170 are students, one employee, two visitors and two children.
Health of all 175 people was checked before they boarded the aircraft.
As per the press release issued by the Embassy of Nepal, Beijing, out of 185 Nepalis who had filled up the evacuation form, four decided to stay back while six couldn’t board the plane due to medical reasons.
The returnees will be kept at a quarantine set up at the premises of training centre of Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), for 14 days.
