close Video Pompeo: State Department working to bring thousands of Americans home during pandemic Fox News senior foreign affairs correspondent Greg Palkot reports. Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. The State Department is ramping up efforts this week to repatriate thousands of Americans stranded abroad, contracting private aircraft and sending military planes to retrieve those unable to return home amid the global coronavirus pandemic. “Our repatriation flights continued through the weekend, and I am pleased to report that we have thus far brought home over 25,000 Americans from over 50 countries,” a State Department official told Fox News on Monday. “We are tracking over 100 additional flights over the next week, and we have identified an additional 9,000 U.S. citizens who have indicated interest in those flights. There is still space for more on those flights, though.” The Defense Department is chartering a flight to Nigeria this coming Thursday to fly 150 passengers into Dulles International Airport in Virginia, outside of Washington, D.C., Gen. Stephen R. Lyons, of the U.S. Transportation Command, said in a press conference. “Never in the department’s 230-year history have we led a worldwide evacuation of such enormous geographic complexity and such… Read full this story
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