BRUSSELS — As many as 300,000 European Union citizens are seeking repatriation due to the coronavirus outbreak, with Latin America and Southeast Asia two regions from where it is proving tough to get people home, the EU's top diplomat said on Friday. "We are coordinating the operations to repatriate thousands of Europeans who are stranded abroad. We are talking about 100,000 who are registered (with embassies), but there are many more, maybe close to 300,000," EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told reporters by telephone. "Little by little, we are trying to bring people home," he said. With Spaniards stuck in countries such as Peru, the EU is relying on commercial airlines - many of which are scaling back flights due to the virus - to pick them up because Latin America is too far away for the bloc's crisis recovery aircraft.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 20, 2020 15:45 UTC