Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he is making arrangements to fly Japanese people home from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of an outbreak of a new viral illness.
ese people home from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of an outbreak of a new viral illness that has killed dozens.ese who wish to be evacuated will be flown out on a chartered flight. He said he is in talks with China on the plan, and Japanese officials had been working on such preparations through the weekend.
“I have decided to have all those who wish to do so to come home,” Abe said, stressing that various options had been studied in recent days.The U.S. Consulate in Wuhan announced Sunday that it will evacuate its personnel and some private citizens aboard a charter flight. The French Consulate also was considering an evacuation of its nationals from the city. It said it's working on arranging a bus service to help French citizens leave Wuhan.
Health ministry officials said late Sunday that a fourth case of the new virus was found in Japan. A Chinese man in his 40s who arrived in Japan Jan. on 22 and got sick the following day has been hospitalized and is in stable condition, the ministry said in a statement. Travel to China has dropped. Toyota Motor Corp. has halted business trips to Hubei province, including Wuhan. Japanese media reports have said that several hundred Japanese people are believed to be living in the area.
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