China to bring home overseas citizens from virus-hit province: official

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BEIJING, Jan 31, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – The Chinese government has decided to send charter planes to bring citizens from virus-hit Hubei province who are overseas back “as soon as possible”, the foreign ministry said Friday.

This is in view of “practical difficulties that Hubei citizens, especially those from Wuhan, have faced overseas”, said ministry of foreign affairs spokeswoman Hua Chunying.