A flight chartered by the State Department has left Wuhan, the city at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, the department says. About 240 Americans could be on board.
A California-bound flight chartered by the US State Department left the China city at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak on Wednesday morning local time, a department spokesman said.
About 240 Americans could be on the flight from Wuhan Tianhe International Airport. It will stop to refuel in Anchorage, Alaska, before arriving early Wednesday in Ontario, California, about 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, according to Alaska Department of Health and Social Services spokesman Clinton Bennett.About three dozen US diplomats and their families are expected to be on board, a US official with knowledge of the matter told CNN.
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