INDIA, March 27 -- Thousands of tourists stranded in South Asian nations in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic are being evacuated on special flights. Germany and France has pulled out their citizens from India. India has suspended both international and domestic flights after a nationwide lockdown to fight the spread of coronavirus.
Similar operations were carried out from Nepal, the gateway to Mt. Everest visited by thousands of trekkers and the Maldives, famous for its pristine beaches.
According to media reports, a plane chartered by Germany took 304 people out of Nepal's capital city Kathmandu in the first of a series of flights aiming to ferry more than 10,000 people stuck in this Himalayan nation.
As South Asia is fast emerging a...