Jaipur, Jul 16 (PTI) A total of 13 more flights have been deployed this month under the Vande Bharat mission to bring back Rajasthan residents stranded abroad amid the COVID-19 lockdown, an official said on Thursday.

The first of these proposed flights landed in Jaipur on Thursday, bringing back 177 Rajasthan residents from Sharjah while the last one of these flights will arrive here on July 30, said an official.

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Additional Chief Secretary Subodh Aggarwal said out of the 13 flights proposed under the Mission, four flights will bring Rajasthani natives from Kuwait, three from Sharjah, two from Biskhek and one each from Doha, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Muscat till July 30.

Agarwal said the first flight bringing Rajasthan residents from abroad came from London on May 22, bringing 149 of them to Jaipur.

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He said the migrant Rajasthanis are lso reaching Jaipur on Thursday by chartered flights, besides those under the Vande Bharat mission.

He said that according to the health protocol, all arrangements have been made at the Jaipur airport to receive passengers from abroad and put them in quarantine.

Apart from Jaipur, isolation arrangements have also been made in districts of Jaipir, Udaipur, Nagaur and Churu, he added.

He said the migrant Rajasthanis of the districts of these divisions are being sent to their districts on Rajasthan Roadways buses for institutional quarantine. PTI AG RAX RAX 07162329 NNNNe that underscored the importance of the subject matter.

“We had already thought that we wanted to warn for a new unknown disease," he told The Associated Press ahead of the opening. "Nobody knows where it will break out or when, but we do know, we've learned that from history, that there will always be a new disease. And we wanted to warn for that and then suddenly we don't need it. We didn't need to warn anymore because there was an outbreak.”

The exhibition was to have opened April 15, but the museum put it on ice in March as the government introduced lockdown restrictions to rein in the spread of the coronavirus.

Haarhuis said the exhibition — and its timing — have already sparked a lot of interest. He believes it can prove useful to help visitors assess the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. "Now I do feel that the exhibition can help people also to reflect on what has happened to us in the past months, to put it in context. Looking back at history,” he said. (AP)

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