More than 170 unaccompanied children among Australians stranded in India

Repatriation flights will resume once the travel ban lifts on 15 May, but the government has not set a deadline for rescuing vulnerable Australians

More than 170 unaccompanied children are among the Australians seeking to return from India as it struggles to contain a deadly second wave of Covid-19, officials in Canberra have revealed.

With the Senate's Covid-19 committee turning its attention to the government's controversial temporary ban on travellers from India, officials reported there were now about 9,500 Australians who wished to return home from the country - including 950 classed as vulnerable.