BEIJING: China has so far sent 11 special flights to bring back a total of 1,827 Chinese citizens in countries hit hard by the novel coronavirus outbreak, according to the country’s civil aviation regulator.
Starting from March 4, the country has operated six flights to Iran to return a total of 976 Chinese citizens and four flights to Italy to bring back 670 Chinese as of the end of Friday, said Han Guangzu, deputy chief of the flight standard department of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, yesterday.
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