NSTworld 'The number of patients began increasing rapidly at a certain point. That was very worrying' Coronavirus Wuhan Japan
A total of 206 Japanese citizens landed at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Wednesday morning, with health professionals carrying out checks on board and at the airport, but no mandatory quarantine was planned.
Takeo Aoyama, a Nippon Steel employee who arrived on the evacuation flight, described confusion in Wuhan, with travel restrictions intended to contain the virus making it hard for those in the epicentre to know what was happening. Takayuki Kato, who worked in Wuhan for the firm Intec, said the atmosphere inside the city had changed as the scale of the crisis became clear.
Around four medical officials were also on board to monitor returning passengers and administer health questionnaires.All passengers will be tested for the new strain of coronavirus, which has killed more than 130 people and infected thousands. Japan's health ministry has so far confirmed seven cases of the virus in the country, including one man who had not travelled to China.
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