People who evacuated from China’s Wuhan province to Turkey have tested negative for coronavirus, said Fahrettin Koca, Turkey’s Health Minister, APA’s local bureau reports.
The minister said based on the results of the analyses of samples taken from people evacuated from China to Turkey including members of the crew of the plane, no symptoms of coronavirus have been detected.
F. Koca noted that the new test samples have also been taken, and the next results will be disclosed after a few days.
Note that A military cargo plane arrived in Ankara carrying Turkish citizens who were evacuated from Wuhan, the Chinese city at the center of a deadly coronavirus outbreak. The Turkish Armed Forces' A400M-type aircraft departed from Wuhan on Saturday airlifting 42 people, including 32 Turks and 6 people from Azerbaijan, 4 from Albania and Georgia.