"So far, no signs of coronavirus have been detected in persons evacuated from China to Turkey, including board members," Turkish Health Minister Fakhraddin Goca said today at a press conference, APA's local bureau reports.
The Health Minister said each of the evacuated people was placed in separate isolated wards at the hospital: "The results of the analysis of the retrieved samples are expected to be announced tomorrow. The quarantine period is 14 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 10 people from Azerbaijan, Albania and Georgia.
The passengers' health conditions are reportedly good and their oxygen levels and body temperature normal, officials told an Anadolu Agency reporter on board.
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