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Plane leaves for Wuhan to bring Nepalis home

Plane leaves for Wuhan to bring Nepalis home

By THT Online

Passengers arriving in Nepal pictured on a thermal scanner for checking body temperature, inside the arrival section at Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu, on Tuesday, January 28, 2020. Airport authorities have adopted this measure after the outbreak of coronavirus in China, which is spreading across the world. Photo: Skanda Gautam/THT

KATHMANDU: The airplane, which will bring Nepali students home from Hubei Province of China, has taken off. Government has sent a chartered Nepal Airlines plane to Wuhan, the epicentre of coronavirus outbreak, to evacuate Nepali students who have been stranded there since the outbreak as the city has been under a lockdown to prevent the spread of infection. The aircraft is scheduled to land at Wuhan Tianhe International Airport at 9:00 pm (China time). Three pilots, six crew members, an engineer, a loadmaster and a health team comprising a doctor, nurses and paramedics from Nepal Army will be flying to Wuhan. A total of 185 Nepalis will reach Kathmandu on Sunday, according to the Nepali Embassy in China. They will land at Tribhuvan International Airport at 2:15 am on Sunday. READ ALSO: