RETURN: China Airlines would dispatch a charter flight to transport 200 Taiwanese in the first stage of evacuation once officials iron out the details, the government said
Taipei Times
Date: Feb 03, 2020
By: Lu Yi-hsuan , Lee I-chia and Dennis Xie / Staff reporters, with staff writer
Taiwanese who have been stranded in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of a coronavirus
The title and logo of the Mainland Affairs Council are seen on a podium at the council’s Taipei offices in an undated photograph.
Photo: Chung Li-hua, Taipei Times
More than a dozen countries, including the US, the UK, France, Japan, Australia, India, Indonesia and South Korea, have evacuated or are planning to evacuate their citizens from China.
Taiwan had tried to arrange a charter flight to repatriate Taiwanese who have expressed a desire to return home, but Chinese authorities refused the request until yesterday.
The Taiwanese have been stranded in Wuhan since Jan. 23, when China locked down the city to prevent the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infection. [FULL STORY]
