It will leave Hanoi's Noi Bai Airport at 5:50 p.m.

To book a seat, people have to register with the Indian embassy, which said a ticket costs $370.

On arrival in India, passengers will have to undergo a 14-day mandatory quarantine, either in a hospital or an institutional facility.

Last year India organized dozens of flights to repatriate its citizens stranded in Vietnam.

Vietnam suspended all international flights in March last year and a large number of foreigners remain in the country.

It has been grappling with a new coronavirus wave that began in late April, and there have been nearly 814,000 cases.