A passenger plane landed on Friday morning at an airport in Paris, aboard were evacuated from the coronavirus-affected province of Hubei and the city of Wuhan. According to French newspaper La Parisien, the plane had 28 French passengers on board and another 36 resident in other countries.
- On the plane there was a Swedish who was flown out of the area in the framework of an EU joint effort, says Erik Karlsson press communicator at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to SVT Nyheter.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs could not state whether the person concerned will have to quarantine and if this would happen in France or at home in Sweden.
How many Swedes are in the province now?
- The embassy is currently in contact with a handful of people located in Wuhan or Hubei, says Erik Karlsson.