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US State Department charter flight departs China amid coronavirus outbreak
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/28/health/coronavirus-cdc-us-evacuate-americans-china-tuesday/index.html
By Amir Vera, CNN
Updated 6:41 PM ET, Tue January 28, 2020
(CNN)A California-bound flight chartered by the US State Department left the China city at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak on Wednesday morning local time, a department spokesman said.
About 240 Americans could be on the flight from Wuhan Tianhe International Airport. It will stop to refuel in Anchorage, Alaska, before arriving early Wednesday in Ontario, California, about 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, according to Alaska Department of Health and Social Services spokesman Clinton Bennett.
About three dozen US diplomats and their families are expected to be on board, a US official with knowledge of the matter told CNN. The State Department has said American citizens could board on a reimbursable basis if space is available.
Priority was been given to US citizens who are "most at risk for contracting coronavirus" if they stay in city, a State Department official said. There are about 1,000 Americans living in Wuhan.
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By Amir Vera, CNN
Updated 6:41 PM ET, Tue January 28, 2020
(CNN)A California-bound flight chartered by the US State Department left the China city at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak on Wednesday morning local time, a department spokesman said.
About 240 Americans could be on the flight from Wuhan Tianhe International Airport. It will stop to refuel in Anchorage, Alaska, before arriving early Wednesday in Ontario, California, about 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, according to Alaska Department of Health and Social Services spokesman Clinton Bennett.
About three dozen US diplomats and their families are expected to be on board, a US official with knowledge of the matter told CNN. The State Department has said American citizens could board on a reimbursable basis if space is available.
Priority was been given to US citizens who are "most at risk for contracting coronavirus" if they stay in city, a State Department official said. There are about 1,000 Americans living in Wuhan.
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I'd been wondering about the status of this flight.
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