US State Department charter flight departs China amid coronavirus outbreak

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.

Well ether when they landed they'd have to be quarantined

It's about time

It is my guess that they will enter the USA through other airports that does not require them to be screened.

I wouldn’t want to be one of the flight attendants. Good luck and God bless us all. We’re going to need it!

Escape from the iron curtain.

LunaCandy14

The gubmint is at it again. Importing deadly diseases and viruses to use on black folks. Y’all better stop eating that chicken sandwich!

I hope the government is smart enough to keep them in quarantine until the incubation period ends to make sure that they don’t pose a threat and spread it here.

Why was it chartered by the State Department? Are they trying to evacuate US citizens?

Quarantined to the max

I bet they won’t be quarantined though. And I don’t doubt that a few of them are infected too

*digressing

Here we go again, always distressing from the issue at hand, some one should to the high road, but i believe the appropriate authorithies are taking all necessary steps to avoid the spread of the virus while also giving all it's citizen the care and benefit they deserve

Oh hell Naw!

Can’t you be carriers w/o showing symptoms? If they don’t know that info then they should be quarantined regardless

I hope the. American government puts those people in quarantine once they land in America

Take a littel soup of onion with hony in every day morning.

So glad I'm leaving the US tomorrow! Idiots letting them in.

Will they be put in isolation in one of our refugee concentration camps until incubation period is completed?

Pathetic

Sure why don’t you just fly the virus in first class 😏

Select a comfortable hotel. Lodge them all in there for 2 weeks while under strict observation. Tough love is required here. They could start with just one passenger infected from Wuhan but sharing the same cabin air for hours, they could arrive the US with 240 carriers.

Send them to iran

This article is wrong. They are headed to Ontario, Canada, not Ontario, California.

Shoot the plane down lol.

Quarantine them until safe.

That makes a lot of sense, Ollie

So...we are so concerned about false narratives of immigrants bringing disease into the country yet are about to let these people back in to possibly spread the virus here?

Here’s the problem: an administration that doesn’t believe in science.

UNLEASH THE CORONA!!!!!!

And where is this sweetheart flight landing?

Bring them home and quarantine them away from the source in a few weeks when safe let them rejoin society. Don’t leave them in China to have a much bigger chance of catching it!! It’s not their fault , they are US citizens !!

Let’s bring it to America that is a smart thing to do.

Just quarantine them and ensure proper measures are taken. Dont leave your fellow countrymen behind, cant imagine hows its like for them as foreigners over there. Have some faith in your healthcare personnel and system. Need more positivity at a time like this ❤

They literally have everyone’s name. They have their destinations. They can put a temporary halt to this until they know if it is safe for them to return. Why the fuck is it on its way back without knowing if it’s safe?! Sometimes we do the stupidest shit to ourselves...

Please report on this!!

Send em to the white house with the rubes...america may get lucky!!

Send them back to Wuhan

ARRIVAL AT MAR A LAGO for quarantine approved.

All aboard the quarantine express.

Send them to California. Place needs a cleanse

Is this a joke?

FFS. Apparently coronavirus can spread before symptoms show. They'd better be in strict quarantine for 2+ weeks. HHSGov CDCgov WHO

Quarantine them for 15 days. Anything less is criminally negligent. CDCgov GavinNewsom realDonaldTrump WhiteHouse

ClaraJeffery WTF?

Common sense says no one leaves the plane while refueling and once they arrive, complete quarantine.

They are deadass Ubering death to our country.

Trump bringing the virus to the USA!

😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷

Can it be diverted to Pelosis driveway?

LIVE IN FEAR

Bad mistake.... Hopefully they will be quarantined for a few weeks once here. Hong Kong is reporting that the number of cases is 2-3X what China is reporting...

We are in trouble

OHHHHH NOOOOOOOOO

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