A plane with hundreds of Americans are evacuated from Wuhan landed in Alaska

The plane that evacuated 240 Americans from Wuhan – the epicenter of the outbreak of a deadly coronavirus — landed in the United States.

The US government ordered the aircraft for the removal of diplomats from the US Consulate in Wuhan and other Americans. As reported at the U.S. Embassy in China, the plane will make a refueling in Alaska, and then fly to southern California.

Wuhan is the epicenter of the new virus that has already killed more than 130 people. In anchorage (Alaska) passengers to be checked by the Center for control and prevention of diseases.

Arriving passengers are isolated in the international terminal of the airport, which mostly is not used in the winter months.

Jim Cesnak, the airport Manager in anchorage, said that this terminal is not connected to heavily-used domestic terminal, and each has a separate ventilation system.

«In the winter we have this terminal is not active, so it was the perfect place to deal with this kind of flights», — said Chesniak.

Officials at the airport in Ontario, 35 miles East of Los Angeles, have prepared the premises to check arrivals and temporary accommodation them for up to two weeks — if the CDC decides it is necessary.

Ontario international airport about ten years ago, the U.S. government intended for the reception of repatriated Americans in case of an emergency abroad.

China shut down 16 Wuhan and other cities in Hubei province, so that people could not leave and spread the virus further.

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