Tokyo, Jul 15 (Bureau) Japanese airlines are planning to arrange special flights to evacuate their nationals from Indonesia, where resurgence of the Delta variant of the coronavirus has been detected, media reported, citing the Japanese embassy in Jakarta.
The Kyodo news agency cited the embassy as saying that it has started contacting Japanese nationals in Jakarta to ask if they want to be returned to Japan. As of Wednesday night, about 330 Japanese were reportedly infected with COVID-19 in Indonesia, 14 of whom died of the disease.
An estimated 50 Japanese expatriates and their family members have already been evacuated from Indonesia on a chartered plane on Wednesday, according to the report. The evacuation flights will be carried out by the Japan Airlines and the All Nippon Airways, the embassy said, as cited in the report.