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Philippines evacuates 30, including infant, from virus-hit Wuhan

Published 02/09/2020, 11:25 AM
Updated 02/09/2020, 11:32 AM
Philippines evacuates 30, including infant, from virus-hit Wuhan

MANILA, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Thirty Filipinos returned to the
Philippines on Sunday from Wuhan City in China's Hubei province,
the epicentre of a coronavirus outbreak that has killed more
than 800 in the mainland, the Department of Foreign Affairs
(DFA) said.
Twenty-nine adults and an infant flew on a chartered flight
arranged by the foreign affairs and health departments which
landed in Clark Air Base, located about 40 miles northwest of
the capital, Manila.
The returning passengers and a 10-member government team
were transferred from the plane into buses that brought them to
the nearby Athlete's Village in New Clark City in Tarlac
province for a 14-day quarantine, the DFA said in a statement.
There were about 300 Filipinos in Hubei, based on the
Philippine government's estimate, but it said not all had wanted
to be evacuated.
The Philippines has reported three positive cases of the
coronavirus infection in the country, including a 44-year-old
Chinese man who had travelled from Wuhan and died in a
government-run hospital in Manila after developing severe
pneumonia. There were more than 230 "patients under investigation" for
coronavirus infection in the country as of Saturday, including
around 100 in Manila, according to the health department.

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