Malaysians from Wuhan arrive at KLIA
THE STAR
Tuesday, 04 Feb 20207:54 AM MYT
By BEH YUEN HUI and LOH FOON FONG
– Bernama
SEPANG: The AirAsia flight bringing Malaysians and non-citizen family members home from Wuhan, China, the epicentre of the coronavirus (2019-nCov) outbreak, landed at KLIA here at 5.57am Tuesday (Feb 4).
There were 133 passengers on the special flight instead of the expected 141, which departed from the Wuhan Tianhe International Airport at 1.26am.
This comprised the 107 who were brought home from China as well as 12 crewmembers, eight humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) mission personnel and six officers from the Malaysian embassy in Beijing, Bernama reported.
The 107 were stranded in China following the coronavirus outbreak, which led to the lockdown of Wuhan, Huanggang and Ezhou cities in the Hubei province in China.
AirAsia flight AK8264 departed from KLIA2 for Wuhan at 3.50pm Monday (Feb 3) and arrived at Wuhan Tienhi International Airport at 9.10pm.
The aircraft was also carrying 500,000 pairs of rubber gloves as a contribution to the Chinese government in an effort to contain the 2019-nCoV outbreak.
On Monday, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail said that all passengers, upon arrival in Malaysia, would have to undergo health screening at the air disaster unit (ADU) at KLIA.
Those detected with the symptoms would be immediately sent to hospital, while others would be taken by bus to a monitoring centre.
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