It is noted that on board the aircraft are Russian military doctors and specialists of the Russian Ministry of Defense in the field of virology.
Earlier it was reported about the departure of the second aircraft to Wuhan.
Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said that the location of the Russians evacuated from China will be the Tyumen region.
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, 132 citizens of Russia expressed their desire to leave Hubei Province in China, where a new type of coronavirus 2019-nCoV has spread.