The Australians are going to quarantine their Wuhan evacuees on Christmas Island.
Australians stranded in Wuhan to be evacuated to Christmas Island
Scott Morrison has announced some of the 600 Australians stuck in the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak will be evacuated.
Updated Updated 1 hour ago
By SBS News
The government is planning to evacuate some Australians stuck in Wuhan and surrounds, using Christmas Island as a quarantine area.
"We're preparing a plan for an operation to provide some assisted departures for isolated and vulnerable Australians in Wuhan and the Hubei province," Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Wednesday.
"This will be done subject obviously to working closely and with the authority and approval of the Chinese government ... I stress that this will be done on a last in, first out basis," he said.
"We're particularly focused on the more vulnerable components of that population. That's young people, particularly infants, and those who are elderly."
Mr Morrison said Christmas Island would be used "as a quarantine area" where the evacuees would stay for 14 days.
He said it was too early to tell how many of the 600 Australians in and around Wuhan will be evacuated.
Locally, the prime minister said an additional one million masks will be distributed around the country.
"This is a serious and evolving situation," he said.
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