Ambassador: We are working to bring Malaysians home from Wuhan
People walk past the closed Hankou Railway Station after the city was locked down following the outbreak of a new coronavirus in Wuhan January 23, 2020. — China Daily via Reuters
Malaysian Ambassador to China, Raja Datuk Nushirwan Zainal Abidin said all of them have been identified based on information received by the embassy including from the social media. Nushirwan said the embassy had communicated with the Chinese Foreign Ministry representative today to discuss on flying Malaysians home with a commercial flight soon.
Previously Foreign Minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah said that China has disallowed the use of military aircraft to evacuate Malaysians trapped in the province.
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