BEIJING, Jan 31 — China is to send charter planes to bring citizens of virus-hit Wuhan city home from overseas “as soon as possible,” the foreign ministry said today. The move comes as a number of airlines announced they were halting or reducing flights to China as the country struggles to...
Hua Chunying, spokeswoman of China’s Foreign Ministry, speaking at a regular news conference in Beijing, January 6, 2016. — Reuters pic
The move comes as a number of airlines announced they were halting or reducing flights to China as the country struggles to contain the spread of a deadly new virus. “In view of the practical difficulties that Chinese citizens from Hubei, especially Wuhan, have faced overseas, the Chinese government has decided to send charter flights to take them directly back to Wuhan as soon as possible,” said ministry of foreign affairs spokeswoman Hua Chunying.
The topic was trending online today, with over 35 million views and 15,000 discussion posts on China's Twitter-like platform Weibo.Another questioned if they should be brought back if they were not infected.
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