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More repatriation plan details due today

Stranded Island residents to be brought home

Details of a plan to repatriate Island residents stuck abroad due to the coronavirus pandemic are due to be revealed today.

Chief Minister Howard Quayle announced a scheme was being worked on during Friday's extraordinary sitting of Tynwald, which was conducted remotely.

At a sitting earlier that week, the government had been accused of abandoning those who found themselves unable to return to the Island due to the lockdown.

On Friday, Mr Quayle said that was not the case:

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