The first of six flights to repatriate some of the 15,000 Canadian passport-holders stranded in India due to the COVID-19 pandemic is scheduled to leave Delhi on Saturday. WATCH | Canadians stuck in India:The thousands of Canadians stuck in India amid a COVID-19 lockdown are starting to lose hope, with no repatriation flights planned to get them out. One flight per day is scheduled to leave Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi starting Saturday through next Tuesday. Two additional flights will depart from Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai, the first on Saturday and another next Tuesday. CBC News asked Global Affairs Canada for more information on the repatriation flights but hadn't heard back at the time of publication.

Source: CBC News March 31, 2020 19:20 UTC