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This article lists evacuations conducted as a result of the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
The SARS-CoV-2 was first identified in the city of Wuhan, Hubei, China in mid-December 2019, when a group of people developed a pneumonia without clear causes, and existing treatments were found to be ineffective. The novel coronavirus has similar characteristics to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). Within a number of weeks, several thousand people in Hubei's provincial capital of Wuhan were infected, and the Chinese central government imposed strict containment measures, including a lockdown of Hubei itself.
Due to the effective lockdown of Wuhan and Hubei, and the continued growth of the outbreak in these locations, several countries planned to evacuate their citizens and/or diplomatic staff from the area. This was done primarily through chartered flights of the home nations, which were provided prior clearance by Chinese authorities. Japan, India, the United States, France, Australia, Sri Lanka, Germany and Thailand were among the first to plan the evacuation of their citizens. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] Pakistan has said that it will not be evacuating any citizens from China due to lack of domestic facilities to help treat Pakistanis who may be infected. [8] [9]
Organizing country/ies | Citizens evac. | Others evac. | Total evac. | As of | Ref |
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51,723 | 5,850 | 57,573 | 2020-04-22 | [10] | |
52,931 | 2020-04-10 | [11] | |||
47,500 (est.) | 800 | 48,300 | 2020-04-02 | [12] |
The Peace Corps evacuated all volunteers, estimated at over 7,000 [lower-alpha 2] and suspended all volunteer programs. [14]
Departure date | Organizing country/ies | Evacuees | Nationalities [lower-alpha 3] | Departure airport | Arrival airport | Notes |
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2020-01-30 to 2020-03-17 | Beijing, Moscow, Minsk, Istanbul | Turkmenabat Airport [15] | Turkmenistan removed all its citizens from countries with coronavirus. [16] [17] | |||
2020-01-24 to 27 | 200 | Da Nang International Airport Cam Ranh International Airport | Vietnam permitted four exceptional flights to take tourists and others from Wuhan home in the period 24–27 January, [18] and organised a flight to evacuate citizens and diplomats. [19] | |||
2020-01-29 | 300 (est.) | On 29 January, Australia and New Zealand announced that they would cooperate in the evacuation of their citizens from Wuhan. There are between 50–82 New Zealanders in Wuhan and 600 Australians in Hubei including 140 Australian children in Wuhan. [20] [21] The New Zealand Government chartered a Boeing 777-200ER aircraft from the national carrier Air New Zealand to assist in evacuation efforts, subject to approval from Chinese officials. [22] [23] [24] While prioritising New Zealand nationals, Australian and Pacific Island citizens were also be carried. [25] | ||||
2020-01-29 | 195 | March Air Reserve Base | First US evacuation flight, with a fuel stop in Anchorage. [26] | |||
2020-01-29 | 206 | Tokyo Haneda Airport | This was Japan's first evacuation flight. Three passengers later tested positive for the virus, with two of them becoming Japan's first asymptomatic cases. [27] | |||
2020-01-30 | 210 | This was Japan's second flight from Wuhan. [28] | ||||
2020-01-30 | 92 | Singapore Changi Airport | Singaporeans were evacuated from Wuhan via a special Scoot flight, crewed by volunteers from the airline after co-ordination between Singapore and Chinese authorities facilitated the flights. However, not all Singaporeans were evacuated as some displayed symptoms before the flight. Two of the evacuees were later confirmed as the first Singaporeans to have the virus. Both were asymptomatic during the flight but were found to have a fever upon arrival. [29] | |||
2020-01-31 | 149 | Tokyo Haneda Airport | Japan's third flight from Wuhan. [30] | |||
2020-01-31 | 368 [31] | |||||
2020-01-31 | 110 [32] | Royal Air Force Brize Norton | Passengers left Wuhan with military medics from the UK, arriving at RAF Brize Norton in England. The British passengers were quarantined at a segregated block of Arrowe Park Hospital on the Wirral; all passengers were tested before and during the flight, with none having the virus. The other EU nationals were flown on to Spain from Brize Norton. More Britons (up to 150) were supposed to be on the flight, which was planned to leave a day earlier, but China initially declined permission, and then anyone who had a Chinese passport (including infants and a newborn to British parents) were told they could not leave. Shortly before the flight departed, this decision was reversed, but it was too late for people to get to the airport even though the plane was also delayed for several hours. The British government plans to send another plane if necessary. [33] [34] [35] | |||
2020-01-31 | 180 [36] | Istres-Le Tubé Air Base | ||||
2020-01-31 | 76 [37] | Wuhan Tianhe International Airport | ||||
2020-01-31 | 124 [38] | |||||
2020-01-31 | 111 [39] | |||||
2020-01-31 | 124 [40] [41] | Frankfurt Airport | The German Air Force plane was denied a stopover in Moscow after its starting point in Wuhan, according to the German Minister of Defence. Originally, the plane had received approval for a layover in Moscow to stop for refuelling and a change of crew personnel. The aircraft evacuated 102 German and 26 non-German citizens. The plane made a stopover in Helsinki on its way to Frankfurt Airport. The German Minister of Health stated that all passengers showed no symptoms of the coronavirus. [42] On its way to Wuhan, the aeroplane carried 10,000 suits of protective equipment as requested by the Chinese government. [43] Two passengers later tested positive for the virus. [44] | |||
2020-02-01 | 333 | South Korea's second flight, operated by Korean Air. [45] | ||||
2020-02-01 | 33 | Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport | A special Sri Lankan Airlines plane flew from Wuhan after co-ordination between the Sri Lankan Government and Chinese authorities. After arrival all passengers were quarantined at a segregated block at Diyatalawa Garrison of the Sri Lanka Army. [46] | |||
2020-02-01 | 324 | Indira Gandhi International Airport | This was India's first evacuation flight. [47] There were three minors, 211 students and 110 working professionals, and the flight was operated by Air India. [48] [49] | |||
2020-02-01 | 42 | Ankara Esenboğa Airport | A cargo plane delivered medical equipment to China before taking the evacuees to Ankara. All passengers were quarantined in an local disused hospital. [50] | |||
2020-02-01 | 71 | Queen Alia International Airport | Flown by Royal Jordanian, making it the first Wuhan evacuation flight by a flag carrier. [51] | |||
2020-02-01 | 31 | Chinggis Khaan International Airport | The flight was operated by MIAT Mongolian Airlines for the government. Passengers were quarantined at the National Center for Communicable Diseases. [52] | |||
2020-02-01 | 59 | Mandalay International Airport | Myanmar National Airlines operated the flight. [53] [54] | |||
2020-02-01 | 312 [55] | Shahjalal International Airport | Using a chartered Boeing 777-300ER of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, the government evacuated many people in Wuhan, mostly students studying there. After arrival they were taken to hajj camp which was turned into quarantine near Dhaka airport for 14 days. 3 people who had high temperature was taken to CMH hospital. [56] | |||
2020-02-01 | 167 | Mostly students and staff of the country's embassy to China. Passengers were quarantined for 20 days instead of the standard 14. [57] | ||||
2020-02-01 | 89 [58] | Wuhan Tianhe International Airport | ||||
2020-02-02 | 238 | Hang Nadim International Airport | Indonesian government chartered a Batik Air aircraft with 18 crews and 30 medics to evacuate around 200 Indonesian citizens from Hubei. [59] [60] [61] Of the 245 Indonesians in Wuhan, 4 refused to leave and 3 failed the screening test by the Chinese authorities. [62] The seven Indonesians who remain in Hubei will continue to be monitored and in contact with the Embassy. [63] Before landing in Batam, "All had been declared healthy according to WHO standards". [64] All passengers were then transferred to Raden Sadjad Air Force Base, in Ranai, Natuna Island using one Boeing 737 and two C-130 Hercules from Indonesian Air Force. [65] [66] [67] | |||
2020-02-02 | 330 | Indira Gandhi International Airport | This was India's second flight. All passengers were quarantined in Delhi and Manesar, Haryana. [68] | |||
2020-02-02 | 46+ | Flown by Air Algérie. Also delivered supplies to China. [69] | ||||
2020-02-02 | 10 | King Khalid International Airport | Mostly students, flight to Riyadh operated by Saudia. [70] | |||
2020-02-03 | 56 [71] | Italians and Poles | Pratica di Mare Air Base | Flown by a specially equipped KC-767. [72] | ||
2020-02-03 | 254 | Istres-Le Tubé Air Base | The flight had 65 French nationals on board as well as residents of 29 other countries. [73] | |||
2020-02-03 | 243 [74] | Christmas Island Airport | Qantas flight chartered by the Australian government evacuated about 240 people, including 84 children and 5 infants, to the Australian mainland, before they were flown on smaller planes to the Christmas Island Detention Centre for quarantine. [75] [76] The inbound flight delivered medical supplies including masks, protective suits and gloves. [77] | |||
2020-02-03 | 247 | Taoyuan International Airport | Charter flight operated by China Eastern Airlines [78] | |||
2020-02-04 | 144 | 16 from post-Soviet states | Roshchino International Airport | Two military planes evacuated passengers to Tyumen, Siberia for quarantine. [79] | ||
2020-02-04 | 107 | Kuala Lumpur International Airport | Chartered AirAsia flight with Malaysians as well as non-Malaysian family members on board. [80] | |||
2020-02-04 | 190 [81] | Auckland Airport | Aircraft operated by New Zealand Airlines NZ1942. Except for the Australian residents, who were subsequently sent to Australia, others were sent to Whangaparaoa military base, 25 km away from Auckland, for two weeks of quarantine. [75] [82] [83] | |||
2020-02-04 | 144 | U-Tapao International Airport | While the flight left from Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok, it flew to a different airport in order for passengers to be quarantined at nearby Sattahip Naval Base. [84] | |||
2020-02-04 | 84 | Imam Khomeini International Airport | 59 Iranians, 24 Syrians and one Lebanese citizen were evacuated by a flight operated by Mahan Air. [85] | |||
2020-02-04 | 350 (est.) [86] | Travis Air Force Base Marine Corps Air Station Miramar | There were two flights, one of which went to Travis AFB near San Francisco, and the other which refueled there and continued to MCAS Miramar near San Diego. Passengers on both flights were quarantined for 14 days. On February 10, one passenger was confirmed infected and became the 13th case in the United States. [87] | |||
2020-02-05 | 147 | Roshchino International Airport | Two Russian Air Force Il-76TDs evacuated people who were taken to a quarantine base in Tumen rehabilitation center. [88] | |||
2020-02-06 | 176 [89] | Canadian Forces Base Trenton | The flight was operated by an Airbus A330 (registration number 9H-STY), stopped at Vancouver International Airport to refuel, and then flew to CFB Trenton near Toronto. [90] Quarantine was lifted on February 21 and no one was infected. [91] | |||
2020-02-06 | 300 (est.) | Plane 1 Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Plane 2 Lackland Air Force Base Eppley Airfield | Consisted of two flights, one of which had a fuel stop in Vancouver were Canadians disembarked. [92] | |||
2020-02-07 | 198 | Tokyo Haneda Airport | Fourth Japanese flight from Wuhan. [93] | |||
2020-02-07 | 40 | The Brazilian Air Force used two E-190 planes. One had a fuel stop in Las Palmas, where no one disembarked. All non-Brazilians got off in Warsaw. [94] [95] | ||||
2020-02-07 | 2 | Brunei International Airport | Operated by Royal Brunei Airlines and arrived the next day. [96] | |||
2020-02-08 | 61 | Wuhan Tianhe International Airport | A flight chartered by the Chinese Consulate-General picked up 49 adults and 12 children, all Chinese nationals, from Bali's Ngurah Rai International Airport on Saturday to bring them back to Wuhan, the centre of the coronavirus outbreak in China. [97] | |||
2020-02-09 | 30 [98] | Clark Air Base | ||||
2020-02-09 | 258 | Darwin International Airport | Operated by Qantas Airways, with a total of 266 people evacuated including 8 Pacific Islanders. [99] Everyone was quarantined in an unused mining camp near Darwin. [100] | |||
2020-02-09 | 174 | Changi International Airport | SIngaporeans were flown home on another special Scoot flight, numbered TR5121. [101] On February 16, one passenger was diagnosed with the virus. On February 21, another confirmed diagnosis was announced. [102] | |||
2020-02-09 | 200 | 95 others | Royal Air Force Brize Norton | Second British flight from Wuhan. [103] | ||
2020-02-10 | 35 | Istres-Le Tubé Air Base | ||||
2020-02-10 | 185 [104] | Canadian Forces Base Trenton | ||||
2020-02-10 | 30 | Noi Bai International Airport | Flight to Hanoi operated by Vietnam Airlines. [105] | |||
2020-02-11 | 140 [106] | |||||
2020-02-16 | 175 | Tribhuvan International Airport | The flight to Kathmandu was operated by Nepal Airlines. The original number of Nepalese to be evacuated was 185, however, 4 of them decided to stay back and 6 were barred to board the flight due to medical reasons. [107] [108] | |||
2020-02-17 | 65 | Tokyo Haneda Airport | Fifth evacuation by Japan from Wuhan. [109] | |||
2020-02-17 | 380+ | Travis Air Force Base Lackland Air Force Base Eppley Airfield | Evacuated passengers on the Diamond Princess [110] | |||
2020-02-19 | 7 | Air Force flight evacuating Diamond Princess passengers [111] | ||||
2020-02-20 | 106 | 18 passengers of other nationalities, possibly Hong Kong residents | Hong Kong International Airport | First Hong Kong evacuation flight for Diamond Princess passengers. [112] | ||
2020-02-20 | 164 | Darwin International Airport | Two passengers later tested positive. [113] | |||
2020-02-20 | 72 | Kharkiv International Airport | Another 3 Ukrainian citizens and 1 foreign national were denied boarding the flight by Chinese authorities due to medical reasons. Two Kazakhstan citizens have left the airliner during the intermediate landing in Almaty, Kazakhstan. All remaining evacuees were taken to Kharkiv Airport and then they were transported by ground to the National Guard sanatorium in Novi Sanzhary for 14 days quarantine. [114] | |||
2020-02-21 | 64 | 36 others | Paris (Airport unknown) | All passengers were quarantined in Normandy. [115] | ||
2020-02-21 | 200+ | Canadian Forces Base Trenton | Flight for Diamond Princess passengers. After landing in Canada, passengers were held in quarantine in an hotel. [116] | |||
2020-02-21 | 19 | Taoyuan International Airport | Evacuated Diamond Princess passengers. [117] | |||
2020-02-21 | 84 | Hong Kong International Airport | Second Hong Kong flight for Diamond Princess passengers. Macaunese passengers were taken to their homes by land over the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge. [118] | |||
2020-02-22 | 32 | Special plane for Diamond Princess passengers. [119] | ||||
2020-02-23 | 5 (excluding government workers) | Hong Kong International Airport | Third evacuation flight by Hong Kong for Diamond Princess passengers. [120] | |||
2020-02-24 | 2 | Taoyuan International Airport | Evacuated a hemophiliac and his mother. [121] | |||
2020-02-25 | 309 | Clark Air Base | Repatriates consist of 440 crew members and 5 tourists from the Diamond Princess. [122] The 445 Filipino repatriates were evacuated on two separate flights. [123] | |||
136 | ||||||
2020-02-26 | 66 | Kuala Lumpur International Airport | Second Malaysian flight from Wuhan, operated by AirAsia. [124] | |||
2020-02-27 | 111 | Indira Gandhi International Airport | This was the third evacuation flight sent by India to Wuhan. India also provided 15 tonnes of medical assistance comprising masks, gloves and other emergency medical equipment to China through the same Indian Air Force flight. [125] [126] | |||
2020-02-27 | 124 | Indira Gandhi International Airport | This flight mostly had crew members of the Diamond Princess as passengers. [127] | |||
2020-02-27 | 15 | Military Transport Air Command | The flight was operated by the Colombian Air Force. Upon arrival, they were quarantined at a sports villa in Bogotá. [128] | |||
2020-03-02 | 11 | Istanbul Airport | After an Israeli passenger on another Turkish Airlines flight tested positive, the airline ran a special flight to take a Taiwanese tour group on the same flight as the confirmed case home. [129] | |||
2020-03-04 | 215 [130] | Unknown number of nationals from nearby countries | Dubai International Airport | |||
2020-03-04, 05 | 311/309 | Lanzhou Zhongchuan International Airport | Two flights, with the first one being operated by China Southern Airlines, evacuated Chinese citizens to the western city. [132] A cluster of cases in Gansu, where Lanzhou is located, were linked to the evacuation. [133] | |||
2020-03-04, 05 | 533 | Hong Kong International Airport | The Hong Kong government arranged four charter flights to bring back 533 of its residents from Wuhan. Upon arrival, they were quarantined in Chun Yeung Estate in Fo Tan. [134] | |||
2020-03-07 | 57 [135] | Macau International Airport | ||||
2020-03-07 | 167 | Ninoy Aquino International Airport | Charter flight organized to bring Overseas Filipino Workers home. [136] | |||
2020-03-10 | 58 | Hindon Airport | The Indian Air Force used a C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft to evacuate Indian pilgrims from Iran. [137] | |||
2020-03-10, 11 | 361 | Taoyuan International Airport | After some conflict between the Chinese and Taiwanese governments, two flights, one operated by China Airlines with 169 evacuees and another by China Eastern Airlines carrying 192, arrived around 11 pm on March 10 and 4am on the 11th respectively. [138] | |||
2020-03-11 | 164 [139] | Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport | ||||
2020-03-11 | 83 | Indira Gandhi International Airport | The flight was operated by Air India. All the non-Indian citizens were of Indian origin. All evacuees were placed under quarantine for 14 days. [140] | |||
2020-03-13 | 114 | Polokwane International Airport | 112 South African citizens [141] [142] were evacuated on a South African Airways aircraft chartered by the South African Government. Medical screening was performed prior to departure, four South Africans who were showing signs of coronavirus were left behind to mitigate risk. Only South Africans who tested negative were repatriated. Test results cleared all the South Africans, including the flight crew, pilots, hotel staff, police and soldiers who, as a precautionary measure, all remained under observation and in quarantine for a 14-day period [141] [142] at The Ranch Resort. [143] [144] [145] [146] [147] [148] | |||
2020-03-14 | 89 | U-Tapao International Airport | 89 Thai students and tourist were evacuated from Italy on a Thai Airways flight organized by Thai government. They were quarantined for 14 days in Sattahip Naval Base. | |||
2020-03-15 | 218 | Indira Gandhi International Airport | Air India operated the flight. The evacuees brought to New Delhi will be shifted to Indo-Tibetan Border Police's camp in Chhawla area where they will be quarantined for 14 days. [151] | |||
2020-03-15 | 234 | Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport | 131 students and 103 pilgrims, among others, were evacuated from Iran on a Mahan Air flight organized by the Indian Embassy. They were quarantined for 14 days in Indian Army's wellness centre facility in Jaisalmer. [152] [153] | |||
2020-03-16 | 53 | Jaisalmer Airport | 52 students and 1 teacher were evacuated by Air India and were then quarantined at an Army Wellness Centre in Jaisalmer. [154] | |||
2020-03-18 | 96 | Kuala Lumpur International Airport | First batch of few hundred Malaysians stranded in India by an AirAsia flight. [155] | |||
2020-03-19 | 80 | An Iran Air charter flight took the passengers from Tehran to Dubai's Al Maktoum International Airport, where they transferred to an Asiana Airlines charter flight going to Incheon. [156] | ||||
2020-03-19 | 72 | A group of 72 Taiwanese tourists flew from Lima to Miami on a privately chartered jet arranged by the Taiwanese government, after Peru declared a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak and closed its borders on March 16 to all commercial traffic. [157] | ||||
2020-03-22 | 444 | An Air Canada Charted flight brought 444 Canadians from Casablanca to Montréal. [158] | ||||
2020-03-23 | 250+ | Ben Gurion Airport | Israir operated two flights from Italy to Tel Aviv, with mostly students on board. [159] | |||
2020-03-24, 25 | 402 | An Air Canada Charted flight brought 402 Canadians from Lima to Peru. [160] | ||||
2020-03-25 | 1000+ | On March 25, the US government has repatriated over 1000 Americans from Peru. [161] | ||||
2020-03-25 | A chartered medical flight with limited capacity that gave preference to the elderly flew from Monrovia to Washington DC. [162] | |||||
2020-03-25 | 500+ | A total of four flights will be chartered by the government to vacate citizens living in Hubei province outside of Wuhan city. [163] | ||||
2020-03-25 | 66 | The two Hércules C-130 planes, of the Brazilian Air Force, carried out the rescue of 66 Brazilians who were stranded in Cuzco, Peru. [164] | ||||
2020-03-25, 26, 30, 31 | 1160+ | 160 4 | Arequipa International Airport Cusco International Airport Pucallpa International Airport | The UK government has arranged 7 British Airways charted flights to bring back over 1160 British, Irish and EU Nationals from Lima to London. [165] | ||
2020-03-26 | 314+ | Ben Gurion Airport | Air India operated a flight from New Delhi, India to Tel Aviv. [166] | |||
2020-03-26 | 198 | An Aeroméxico Charted flight brought 198 Korean from Lima to Incheon. [167] | ||||
2020-03-27 | 432 | An Air Canada Charted flight brought 432 Canadians from Casablanca to Montréal. [168] | ||||
2020-03-29 | 153 | The U.S. Embassy, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, organized an evacuation flight for U.S. citizens from El Dorado Airport in Bogota to Atlanta. [169] | ||||
2020-03-29 | 139 | Lima International Airport | The flight, chartered by LATAM Airlines, departed from Cusco, a southeastern city in Peru, with 38 Taiwanese on board, then flew to the capital, Lima, to pick up an additional 17 Taiwanese Nationals. Another 84 passengers of four different nationalities—Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, and the U.S. -- bringing the total number of passengers to 139. The flight landed in Miami and all the passengers can choose to stay in the city or bound to their own country. [170] [171] | |||
2020-03-30 | Two flights operated by China Airlines between Taoyuan and Shanghai will be opened to transport Taiwanese nationals in Hubei Province home. [172] | |||||
2020-03-31 | 260 | A group of about 260 Australians who paid at least $5,160 each for an evacuation flight out of Peru have returned home. [173] | ||||
2020-03-31 | 309 | A Korean Air Charted flight brought 309 Korean from Milan to Incheon. [174] | ||||
2020-04-01 | The U.S. Embassy, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Defense, has organized an evacuation flight for U.S. citizens from El Dorado Airport in Bogota to Eglin Air Force Base in Destin, FL. [175] | |||||
2020-04-01 | 300 | The Embassy of the United States in Liberia has announced the arrival of a second charted flight to evacuate its citizens from Liberia though the country has reported only three confirmed cases of Covid-19. [162] | ||||
2020-04-01 | 203 | An Edelweiss Air Charted flight brought 203 Swiss, British, Norwegian, EU, American and Canadian nationals from Yangon to Zurich. The first direct flight from Myanmar to Europe. [176] | ||||
2020-04-01 | 205 | A Korean Air Charted flight brought 205 Korean from Rome and Milan to Incheon. [177] | ||||
2020-04-02 | The U.S. Embassy announced that Spirit Airlines will operate a humanitarian flight from Bogota, Colombia on April 2, 2020. The flight will depart from El Dorado International Airport and arrive at Fort Lauderdale – Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. [178] | |||||
2020-04-03 | 76 | Lima International Airport | The Hong Kong Government has arranged a charted flight to bring 65 Hong Kongers, 6 Malaysians and 5 Britons from Lima to London, then the Hong Kongers will go on board a regular connecting flight with secured bookings from London to Hong Kong. For those Hong Kongers and Malaysians who are stranded in Cusco, they will also take a domestic charted flight arranged by the Hong Kong government flying to Lima. [179] | |||
2020-04-18 | 60 | The Taiwanese government organized an Emirates charter flight taking 60 Taiwanese nationals back from UAE to Taiwan. [180] | ||||
2020-04-21 | 368 | A Garuda Indonesia plane chartered by Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs repatriated a total of 368 Brazilians from Vietnam, Thailand, and Indonesia to São Paulo with stopover in Amsterdam. The flight was planned to depart on April 16 but later rescheduled after Qatari government denied the flight to make stopover in Qatar. [181] | ||||
2020-04-28 | 259 | [182] | ||||
2020-04-30 | 319 | The very first flight to take back Hong Kongers from Pakistan after the nationwide lockdown. An estimated number of 2000 Hong Kong citizens are stranded in different parts of the country. [183] | ||||
2020-04-30 | All guests are advised that only Fiji citizens (Fijian passport holders) are able to enter Fiji at this time. As with all recent evacuation flights arrivals, all arriving guests will be required to go into self-isolation at a Fijian Government-mandated facility for 28 days. [184] | |||||
The French government has strategically moved coronavirus patients from harder-hit areas to those with less cases to spread out the strain on the hospital system. Evacuations done for this purpose include one from Corsica using a naval ship [185] and a series of high-speed TGV trains from Grand-Est to other regions. [186] [187]
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced plans in late January 2020 to quarantine Australian citizens evacuated from Wuhan, including children and the elderly, for a period of 14 days on Christmas Island. The decision to repatriate those citizens using controversial detention facilities formerly used to detain asylum seekers before they were shut down in 2018 has received criticism. [188] Controversially, the government plan also necessitates those evacuees to pay a fee of A$1,000, and would take them to Perth after the quarantine period, where they would need to arrange their own transportation back to their home cities. The Australian Medical Association, in a statement on the same day, stated that the decision to hold Australian citizens in "a place where has been previously the focus of populations under enormous mental and physical trauma and anguish, is not a really appropriate solution." [189]
In some places, local residents rallied against the decision to quarantine evacuees in their region. Residents of Nautana protested against the Indonesian government in early February 2020 for letting the evacuees stay there. Hundreds staged demonstrations and burned tires. As a result, Brimob and Indonesian National Armed Forces troops were deployed to ensure stable security conditions. [190] To protect and give health assurance to local people, Jokowi ordered Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto to have a temporary office in Natuna. [191]
In the Philippines, the usage of the New Clark City development as a quarantine site was met with opposition from the municipal council of Capas. The local legislative said that they were not consulted by the national Department of Health and the Bases Conversion and Development Authority regarding the plan and suggested the national government to consider a more isolated area as a quarantine site. [192]
After healthy Ukrainian evacuees returned from Wuhan to Ukraine on 20 February 2020, misinformation caused riots as protestors railed against the decision to quarantine the passengers nearby the day after they flew back, and the evacuees' bus was attacked. [193] [194]
A Department of Health and Human Services employee claimed that the workers who received Americans from the first evacuation from Wuhan were inadequately trained and equipped. [195] [196]
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Chen Qiushi is a Chinese lawyer, activist, and popular citizen journalist who became widely known for providing firsthand coverage of the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests and the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic which included criticism of the government response. He was last heard from on 6 February 2020; as of May 2020, his whereabouts remain unknown. The Chinese government reportedly informed Chen's family and friends that he has been detained for the purpose of COVID-19 quarantine. Critics, including media freedom groups, have expressed skepticism about government motives, and have unsuccessfully called on the government to allow outside contact with Chen.
The ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019, a novel infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, spread to Vietnam on 23 January 2020, when its first known case of COVID-19 was reported. As of 3 May 2020 the country had 271 confirmed cases, 219 recoveries, and no deaths. More than 261,000 tests have been performed. Hanoi is currently the most-affected city with 112 confirmed cases.
The ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019, a novel infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, soon spread to Hong Kong, and the first confirmed case was announced on 23 January 2020. Confirmed cases are generally transferred to Princess Margaret Hospital's Infectious Disease Centre for isolation and centralised treatment. On 5 February, only after a 4-day strike by front line medical workers did the Hong Kong government close all but three border control points – Hong Kong International Airport, Shenzhen Bay Control Point, and Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Control Point remaining open. As of 25 April 2020, Hong Kong had 1,036 confirmed cases, 753 recovered cases and four death cases.
The pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has had a more moderate impact in Taiwan than in many neighboring countries, with six deaths total as of 30 April 2020. The number of active cases peaked on 6 April at 307 cases.
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic was confirmed to have reached Bahrain in February 2020.
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic was confirmed to have spread to Georgia when its first case was confirmed in Tbilisi on 26 February 2020.
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic was first manifested by a cluster of mysterious pneumonia in Wuhan, the provincial capital of Hubei, China. A Wuhan hospital notified the local center for disease control and prevention (CDC) and health commissions on December 27, 2019. On December 31, Wuhan CDC admitted that there was a cluster of unknown pneumonia cases related to Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market after the unverified documents appeared on the Internet. The potential disease outbreak soon drew nationwide attention including that of the National Health Commission (NHC) in Beijing which sent experts to Wuhan on the following day. On January 8, a new coronavirus was identified as the cause of the pneumonia. The sequence of the virus was soon published on an open-access database. Measures taken by China have been controversial. They were praised by the World Health Organization (WHO) for improvements over SARS-CoV-1 responses, but maligned by many in the international community for being slow to publicly disclose key facts or deceptive about the outbreak and for aggressively censoring information relating to the outbreak and public discontent from citizens online.
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic was confirmed to have spread to Mongolia when its first case was confirmed in a French male who traveled from Moscow to Dornogovi on 10 March 2020.
National responses to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic have been varied, and have included containment measures such as lockdowns, quarantines, and curfews. As of late April, there are 2.9 million cases of COVID-19 and over 203,800 deaths in 210 countries and territories around the world. The most affected countries in terms of confirmed cases being the United States, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Turkey and China.
The first case of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic was confirmed in Nepal on 24 January 2020 in Kathmandu. The patient showed mild symptoms and had been discharged a week earlier with instructions to self-quarantine at home; he was subsequently confirmed to have completely recovered. Between January and March, Nepal took steps to prevent a widespread outbreak of the disease, while preparing for it by procuring essential supplies, equipment and medicine, upgrading health infrastructure, training medical personnel, and spreading public awareness. The second case was confirmed on 23 March 2020 in Kathmandu. As of 3 May 2020, 73 additional cases have been confirmed; affecting 14 Districts in six Provinces. The first case of local transmission was confirmed on 4 April in Kailali. Sixteen patients have been confirmed recovered. A country-wide lockdown came into effect on 24 March, and is scheduled to end on 7 May.
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic was confirmed to have spread to Tajikistan when its index cases, in Dushanbe and Khujand, were confirmed on 30 April 2020.
This article documents the chronology of the response to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in February 2020, which originated in Wuhan, China in December 2019. Some developments may become known or fully understood only in retrospect. Reporting on this outbreak began in December 2019.
On Thursday, 45 Ukrainians and 27 foreign nationals were flown from Wuhan in China, the epicentre of the deadly outbreak, to Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine.
The evacuees -- 45 Ukrainians, 27 Argentinians and citizens from several other South American countries, as well as 22 crew members and doctors -- were flown to Ukraine from China's Hubei Province. All of them have already tested negative for the virus, authorities said, but are to be held in quarantine to ensure they aren't carrying it.