Plane brings more than 250 foreign nationals from epidemic-hit Wuhan to France
Coronavirus outbreak in China
Morethan250peoplefrom30 countries arrived inFranceon Sunday after being flown out of the Chinese city ofWuhan, the center of an outbreak of a coronavirus,Frenchofficials said.
TheFrenchplanelanded at a military airbase in Istres, southernFrance.
Out of the 254 evacuees, 124 were returning to their home countries,FrenchHealth Minister Agnes Buzyn said.
Sixty-fourFrenchnationalswill be quarantined either at a holiday resort at Carry-le-Rouet or at theFrenchNational Fire Officers' Academy near Aix-en-Provence.
Sixty non-Europeannationals, includingfromMexico, Brazil, Rwanda, and Georgia, we're staying inFrancefor a 14-day quarantine. Twenty evacuees presented some coronavirus symptoms and stayed at the military airbase until tests show if they had the virus.
ForeignMinister Jean-Yves Le Drian said theplanecarriednationalsof 30 countries.
The Czech Republic said it had five citizens onboard and that that they would fly on to Brussels to be taken home on a Czechplane.
Sweden said about 10 of itsnationalswere on the flight and would be taken on to Sweden. Some Britishnationalswere also on board.