The State Council ’s joint prevention and control mechanism held a press conference on February 26. In response to the issue of how Chinese tourists who stayed after the outbreak returned, Liu Kezhi, director of the Department of Market Management of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, said that according to statistics, the travel business of travel agencies and online travel companies' operating teams was suspended from January 24. Overseas Chinese team tourists reached 250,000. With the support of foreign affairs, civil aviation and other departments, they have begun to return by charter flights and rebooking flights. Faced with their urgent return request, we do our best to arrange for them to return. He said, no matter where you are, the motherland is always behind you. With the strong coordination of relevant departments, tourists returned in an orderly manner. As of the 25th, less than 90 people remained. (Edited by Zhou Yan)
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