The 368 South Koreans were transported to two facilities in Asan and Jincheon, cities about 80 km (50 miles) south of capital Seoul, where they will be isolated. The aircraft carrying the evacuees from Wuhan, the epicenter of a virus outbreak in China, landed in Seoul earlier in the morning. Several hundred police officers were on hand at the facilities in Asan and Jincheon, but there was no major rally. South Korea reported its seventh confirmed case of the coronavirus on Friday, a 28-year-old man who returned from Wuhan via the eastern Chinese port city of Qingdao last week. (Reporting by Sangmi Cha and Hyonhee Shin in Seoul and Daewoung Kim in Asan; Editing by Sandra Maler, Lincoln Feast and Kim Coghill)

Source: National Post January 31, 2020 06:00 UTC