Coronavirus: the third plane chartered by Paris landed on French soil
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The third plane chartered by France to repatriate 28 Chinese and 36 nationals from other European Union countries from China arrived at Paris Roissy airport, we learned from an airport source on Friday.
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Read moreThe third plane chartered by Paris since the start of the crisis triggered by the appearance of the new coronavirus , the plane left Thursday from Wuhan, the epicenter of the epidemic.
French returnees must be placed in quarantine in a holiday village in Normandy (north-west of France) for 14 days. The other European passengers must be " taken care of, upon arrival, by the authorities of their country ", according to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The aircraft had been chartered by Paris with the main objective of transporting medical equipment freight for Chinese medical personnel in Hubei province, the most affected by the epidemic, according to a diplomatic source. His return flight to France was an opportunity to repatriate around sixty French and European nationals who wanted to , she added.
Two previous French repatriation flights had been organized and a British plane had also evacuated around thirty French people on February 9. On all three of these flights, more than 300 people have already been repatriated from China to France and placed in quarantine. Most of them came out. The last 35 returnees who arrived on February 9 via London are due to leave on February 23.
Pending the tests of the new returnees on Friday, the assessment of the epidemic remains unchanged in France: 12 cases of coronavirus infection have been confirmed in total - four hospitalizations without signs of severity, seven people healed and one death. In China, the death toll now exceeds 2,100 dead and 74,500 people infected, according to the latest official figures released Thursday. On Friday, the epidemic rebounded in South Korea, where 100 new cases of Covid-19 disease were diagnosed, mainly among members of a Christian sect.
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