Japan flies out citizens from Wuhan
A chartered aircraft operated by All Nippon Airways preparing to leave for Wuhan, central China, at Haneda airport in Tokyo, Japan, yesterday. The chartered flight is scheduled to evacuate some 200 Japanese nationals living in the coronavirus affected city of Wuhan. – EPA pic, January 29, 2020.
JAPAN today airlifted about 200 of its nationals from ground zero of China’s virus epidemic that has killed more than 100 people, and the US readied a similar flight. More than 50 million people have been locked down in and around Wuhan, the central industrial city where the outbreak first began, in a bid by authorities to stop an infection that has since spread to more than 15 countries.
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