LONDON: Between 50 and 60 Indian tourists, business travellers and students are stranded in Poland despite chartered aircraft travelling to Delhi to pick up Poles.The Indian nationals rushed to Warsaw airport on Monday hoping to get on a chartered aircraft home after Poland closed its airspace on Sunday to commercial flights.But no Indian national has been allowed to board any of the chartered LOT Polish Airlines flights departing Warsaw since Monday.Yash Dhagat, from Rajkot, Gujarat , is a student at the University of Opole . He and his Indian friends want to leave Poland because of the lockdown due to the novel coronavirus.“Less people understand English. One of my friends had a cough and he went to the hospital and was told to fill in loads of forms and come back in 10 days. He was not tested,” Dhagat said.“Our parents are there and we have medical facilities in India. If something to happens us and we get the virus, what will we do? We have no one here. We have friends, that’s it. We know cases will increase. We were at the airport since Monday trying to board a flight. Although some of us had tickets for the 17th they said they did not have permission from the Indian authorities so they could not board us. Some people had checked in online and even had boarding passes. Two students bought one-way tickets for 4,000 zloty (Rs 71,000.) The flight on the 17th took off and we could not board it.”On Friday they were sent back to Opole, a city on the Oder river.“We are now in isolation together — 11 in small houses, six in one and five in the other,” Dhagat said. “No one can travel here and we can’t travel anywhere. The Indian student relations officer is bringing us food. We know the situation in Delhi so we are trying to convince ourselves that wherever we are we are safe.”“The Polish airline asked the DGCA for permission to get entry but did not get approval to land with passengers,” said Amit Lath, vice-president of the Indo-Polish Chamber of Commerce and Industry. “These students don’t understand they could infect themselves during the flight or after landing. I think this was the right decision as they could have infected India. It is people from Europe and the US flying back who have been spreading the virus. The Indian tourists are being taken care of by the Indian community in Poland. There are 10,000 Indian students here and only some want to leave. I think their parents have been pressuring them to return,” he said. “Some are now trying to see if they can get back via neighbouring countries.”