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Added on the 31/01/2020 15:18:12 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
A plane carrying some 200 French nationals from Wuhan, China - the epicentre of an epidemic caused by the new coronavirus - lands shortly before 12.30 p.m. CET at the Istres military base, around 60 kilometres from Marseille. IMAGES
French president Emmanuel Macron gives an update on the French repatriation operations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' crisis centre. The Head of State is accompanied by the Head of Diplomacy Jean-Yves Le Drian and Secretary of State Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne in the "telephone answering" room, where calls from French citizens wishing to return from abroad are taken. More than 130,000 French citizens have been repatriated since March 16. IMAGES
After 14 days of quarantine in a holiday resort in Carry-le-Rouet, near Marseille, a group of people evacuated from Wuhan in China are allowed to leave. IMAGES
French citizens evacuated from Wuhan due to the coronavirus leave a resort in southern France where they were held in quarantine for two weeks. IMAGES
Exclusive images from inside the holiday resort where some 180, mostly French people arrived on Friday after being repatriated to France from Wuhan in China, the epicentre of the new coronavirus epidemic. They will remain in quarantine for two weeks in this seaside resort near Marseille. IMAGES