10:01 am: The last British plane, with 38 French and French, landed near London
A second and “last” London-chartered plane to repatriate around 200 Britons and other foreign nationals still in Hubei province, the epicenter of the new coronavirus epidemic, landed in the UK on Sunday morning. Some 200 people are on board, British or other nationalities, “including our team who facilitated the flight and medical staff,” said the Foreign Ministry on Saturday in a statement.
The French Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn, indicated on Friday that 38 French and French people would be repatriated on this British flight. The returnees will be isolated for fourteen days. London had previously advised the estimated 30,000 Britons in China to leave the country to minimize their exposure to the virus that appeared in December. The UK had already repatriated 94 Britons from Wuhan, 83 of them on a first flight chartered by British authorities in cooperation with the Spanish authorities, and 11 who came on a French flight co-funded by the European Union.
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