Australian evacuees from Wuhan, China arrivingat RAAF base Learmonth in Western Australia on board a chartered Qantas Boeing 747-400 plane prior to their quarantine at Christmas Island, on Tuesday (Feb 3). - Reuters
SYDNEY/WELLINGTON: Australia may arrange a second evacuation flight out of China's Wuhan city, the epicentre of the coronavirus, after a first plane load of its citizens arrived on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Tuesday (Feb 3).
Some 241 passengers on the initial flight will be quarantined for two weeks on the remote Australia-run island, about 1,400km (870 miles) northwest of mainland Australia.
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