About 350 more Wuhan coronavirus evacuees land at California military base from China
KGO television in the San Francisco Bay area showed video of people in white coverall suits getting off the plane in the predawn darkness at Travis Air Force Base. San Diego television stations showed video of the second plane landing at Miramar. The evacuees at Travis will be housed in a hotel on the base, the base said in a statement on its Facebook page. As in other places, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will take charge of the care, transportation and security of the evacuees. “A safety cordon will be established, away from residential housing, to ensure the Travis mission can safely continue,” the statement said. The Pentagon said it also preparing Camp Ashland, an Army National Guard base in Nebraska, to receive up to 75 people for quarantine.Read more:
About 350 U.S. evacuees from China land at California air base
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