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. 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. Those detected with the symptoms would be immediately sent to hospital, while others would be taken by bus to a monitoring centre.

Source: thestar February 03, 2020 23:59 UTC