First group of tourists stranded in China's Sanya return home

SANYA, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- A plane carrying 125 tourists took off at 4:28 p.m. Tuesday from Sanya, a coastal resort city in south China's Hainan Province, bound for Xi'an in northwest China.

The tourists were stranded as a result of new COVID-19 clusters, and they were among the first group to return home.