A flight aimed at evacuating the Australian citizens and permanent residents from Wuhan departed at 4.21am (CST) and is due to arrive in Darwin at 11.38am (ACST).
More Australians from the coronavirus epicentre of Wuhan in China are primed to enter quarantine at an old mining camp north of Darwin.
A flight aimed at evacuating the Australian citizens and permanent residents from Wuhan departed at 4.21am and is due to arrive in Darwin at 11.38am . The Qantas plane was originally scheduled to leave Wuhan on Friday night but did not get clearance to land from China and spent Saturday in Hong Kong"We continue to work constructively with Chinese authorities, and everything is on track for the flight later tonight," Foreign Minister Marise Payne said in a statement on Saturday night.
When the Australians are extracted they will be sent to the Manigurr-ma Village at Howard Springs, an old mining camp about 30km from Darwin.So far two groups of Australian citizens or permanent residents have been evacuated to Christmas Island, with 241 leaving on a Qantas flight and 35 departing on a later Air New Zealand flight.
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