About 250,000 Europeans stranded by Covid-19 still trying to get home

Brussels — More than 250,000 EU citizens are still trying to get home as the number of people stranded by the coronavirus outbreak remains high, despite the EU having already repatriated about 350,000 people, its top diplomat said on Friday.

The EU initially put the number of those in need of repatriation in mid-March at 80,000 and then said on March 20 the number was closer to 300,000. As a last resort, the bloc has used its crisis recovery aircraft programme when no commercial airlines are willing to fly, bringing about 10,000 EU citizens home, although many countries are too far away to be eligible.

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