He announced this on his Facebook page.

“In connection with the epidemiological situation in the Chinese province of Hubei, a decision was made to evacuate citizens of the Republic of Poland from there,” wrote Moravecki.

According to him, citizens are on their way to France, from there special military aircraft of the Polish Armed Forces will deliver them to Wroclaw.

The prime minister noted that among the evacuated "there are no people with suspected infectious diseases," but after landing they will undergo a preventive examination.

Earlier, a spokesman for the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that the evacuation of Russian citizens from China in connection with the spread of the coronavirus is scheduled for February 3-4.