As India continued to set an unprecedented world record for corona victims and the government acknowledged the shock of a new wave of the virus, the media reported that wealthy Indians had fled on private jets.
In the latest news about the outbreak of the coronavirus in India, the flight of the rich people of this country to the UAE and some other countries has made headlines.
The Business Insider website reported on Sunday (today): “While India has once again set a world record (catching the corona virus) with almost 350,000 new cases, India’s richest people are fleeing the country on private jets.”
“According to the American media, the rich Indians are paying tens of thousands of dollars to flee the country, while India set a new record for the corona virus for the fourth day in a row.”
The number of people infected with the coronavirus in India has risen to an unprecedented 349,691 in the past 24 hours; meanwhile, hospitals in the capital New Delhi and other parts of the country are also facing a crisis of bed and oxygen shortages.
Images of patients in hospital corridors in India have been widely reported on social media and social media in recent days, and apocalyptic images of mass cremation of corona victims have been circulating for several days.
The Indian Ministry of Health has announced that the number of people with coronary heart disease in the country has reached 17 million. The number of deaths also set a new record and increased by 2,761 to 192,310.
According to Business Insider, “high figures (morbidity and corona deaths) have made the rich in India pay thousands of dollars for last-minute flights and private jets, while travel restrictions have been enforced.”
A spokesman for India’s Air Charter Service told the Economic Times on Friday last week that the (rich Indian) interest in private jets was “really crazy”.
He (Friday) added in this interview: “We have 12 flights to Dubai tomorrow and each of these flights is full.”
Enthral Aviation, another private jet company, also announced the registration of hundreds of private flights in India in recent days.
According to a company spokesman, “We have asked foreign countries to help meet the demand (for private jets). Renting a 13-seater plane from Mumbai to Dubai costs $ 38,000 and a six-seater plane costs $ 31,000.”
The Sunday Times reported that at least eight private jets flew from Britain to India in the past 24 hours. It is reported that the charter cost of each of these flights may be more than 138 thousand dollars.