45,000 stranded Pakistanis will be brought back weekly from June 20: Moeed Yusuf.

ISLAMABAD -- Special Assistant to Prime Minister Moeed Yusuf said on Wednesday that from June 20, around 45,000 international passengers will be brought back each week, adding that the corona tests of all the passengers returning to Pakistan will be conducted.

The SAPM on national security said that as promised by Prime Minister Imran Khan, the government has made the arrangements for the overseas Pakistanis awaiting repatriation.

'Starting from 20th June, we would be bringing approx. 45,000 international passengers per week. This is three times the current 14,000 a week,' he said.

He said that since the reopening of the Pakistani airspace from April 3, more than 75,000 people have repatriated.

"Symptomatic passengers will be tested and quarantined until test results; with [the] option of paid/government quarantine facilities as earlier...