Kazakhstan evacuates 83 citizens from China's Wuhan

By Reuters
Published: February 02, 2020 04:10 PM

NUR-SULTAN, Feb 2:  Kazakhstan has evacuated 83 of its citizens, mostly students, from the Chinese city of Wuhan which is epicentre of a new coronavirus epidemic, Kazakhstan’s government said on Sunday.

The Kazakh airplane also took an undisclosed number of Kyrgyz, Belarusian and Armenian citizens, the cabinet said in a statement. The evacuees would be quarantined and tested, it added.