Curt Hagman, chairman of the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors, said in a video news release that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told local officials that the flight will be diverted to the base 'for the logistics that they have.'
will land at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County instead of Ontario International Airport, officials announced Tuesday night.
Ontario International Airport is one of two repatriation airports on the West Coast, Hagman said, with the other in Oakland. The virus is not currently spreading in any community in the United States. The only confirmed cases thus far in the U.S.,, involved people who contracted the virus outside the country, primarily in Wuhan, according to the CDC.
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