Air India flight leaves for China with medical team to evacuate citizens
NEW DELHI : An Air-India flight left on Friday afternoon for the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak, to start evacuating Indian nationals, hours after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the infection a global emergency.
The flight, which is due to return early on Saturday, has onboard a team of five doctors, other medical staff, engineers and security personnel. The flight is equipped with masks, overcoats and packaged food, which are to be kept in seat pockets instead of being served. The aircraft has 423 seats.
An Air India spokesperson said that another aircraft may depart for Wuhan from Delhi on Saturday to bring back a second batch.
