Flight carrying Canadian coronavirus evacuees from cruise ship in Japan lands - minister

(Reuters) - A Canadian government-chartered flight carrying 129 Canadians evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship in quarantine near Tokyo due to coronavirus has landed in Ontario, the country's Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said http://bit.ly/2wyQsWF on Friday.

All repatriated passengers on the chartered flight had tested negative for COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, while the Canadians who contracted the illness did not board the flight, CBC News said http://bit.ly/2T6Iqfp.