<span style="color: #222222;">Kerala gets ready to welcome Non-Resident Indians from abroad, as four flights carrying expatriates are expected to arrive on Thursday. AIR Correspondent reports that<b><i> </i></b>out of the four flights scheduled to arrive in Kerala on Thursday , two will be coming from UAE and one  flight each from Qatar and Saudi Arabia.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Flights from UAE are scheduled  to Kochi and  Karipur airport , whereas flights from Qatar and Saudi Arabia is scheduled to Kochi international airport on the first day of arrival. Two hundred passengers are expected in each flight. The State Government expects nearly 15,000 expats to arrive in the state in the first phase of the evacuation.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Meanwhile,  three Naval ships are also being send  to evacuate  citizens stranded in the Maldives and UAE .</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">INS Jalashwa  and  INS Magar being  send to  Maldives  and INS Shardul that is being send  to Dubai , is expected to return to Kochi by next week. The District Administration have made the necessary arrangements,  in all major airports and ports, for medical screening of passengers, quarantine facilities and Covid care centre  , with enough facilities of isolation beds and medical arrangements including ventilators.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">High level meeting is going on in Thiruvananthapuram under the Chief Minister to take stock of the preparations and to implement the Centre's guidelines ,considering the situation in the State. Meanwhile, Kerala has not reported any fresh COVID- 19 cases in the last two days. Presently 34 active COVID-19 cases are there in the State.</span><br />