Coronavirus: Jet Sent To Repatriate EU Citizens From Wuhan

Coronavirus: Jet Sent To Repatriate EU Citizens From Wuhan.

An A380 jet left Portugal on Thursday to repatriate more than 300 EU citizens from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, Portuguese broadcaster Sic Noticias reported.

“We estimate around 350 passengers to come back. They are all European and many nationalities, including Portuguese,” the flight’s Greek captain Antonios Efthymiou told Sic Noticias before the flight left Beja airport some 170 kilometres south of Lisbon. Portuguese daily Publico reported the French government had chartered the aircraft, adding it would make a stopover in Paris to receive medical personnel and then headfirst to Hanoi, Vietnam, before going on to China on Friday.

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