Coronavirus: Airbus with South Africans from Wuhan lands in Polokwane By Estelle Ellis
The group of South Africans evacuated from Wuhan, China arrived in Polokwane on Saturday morning. They will be quarantined at The Ranch Resort Hotel near Polokwane for 21 days.
The student who graduated in 2019 but was waiting to accept her degree certificate, said the flight was without incident. She said they boarded the bus from the university at 11.15 am, South African time, in Wuhan on Friday and were taken to the airport. “We are still on the plane but we are waiting for the bus to take us to the hotel,” she said via text message. “We are finally home.”Students line up to get onto the bus to the airport in Wuhan.
The students, who were studying with bursaries from the Free State government and other South African citizens were repatriated after having been in lockdown in Wuhan since middle January. Wuhan is considered the epi-centre of the Covid-19 virus, that has since been declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organisation.
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