HONG KONG (China Daily/ANN): The government’s plan to fly back 533 residents stranded in Hubei province this week has been welcomed by those trapped at the epicentre of the Covid-19 outbreak — who called the evacuation “timely” and “efficient”.
The SAR government announced on Tuesday its plan to charter four flights, two on Wednesday and two on Thursday, to evacuate local residents, including 14 pregnant women, 11 students about to take the college entrance HKDSE exam in late March, and 22 people with urgent medical needs.
At a media briefing, Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Patrick Nip Tak-kuen said the flights will collect 440 Hong Kong people from Hubei’s provincial capital, Wuhan, and another 93 from 10 other Hubei cities.Nip said the government will arrange designated vehicles to send the stranded people to the airport in Wuhan.
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