{"id":60897,"date":"2020-02-05T12:04:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T04:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60897"},"modified":"2020-02-05T12:04:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T04:04:03","slug":"two-more-planes-evacuate-americans-from-virus-hit-wuhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60897","title":{"rendered":"Two more planes evacuate Americans from virus-hit Wuhan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1-34.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1-34.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The United States evacuated more than 300 more people on two new flights out of Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the fast-spreading new coronavirus, the State Department said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two flights left Wuhan on Tuesday US time after the passengers were screened, a State Department official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The official said that the United States has now brought home more than 500 passengers on three fights. A first flight, with 195 Americans on board, left Wuhan last week and landed in California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States is preparing one or two additional planes to evacuate Americans on Thursday, after which it does not intend further flights, the official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States has been placing passengers under mandatory quarantine, the first time that the federal government has taken such a major step since the 1960s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As stated in a travel advisory issued last week, \u201cUS citizens currently in China should attempt to depart by commercial means,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States has offered seats on the government planes as they becomes available, with the US citizens asked to reimburse the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Washington declared a public health emergency over the pathogen and has banned the entry of foreign nationals who have travelled to China, where 490 people have died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eleven cases of infection have been confirmed in the United States. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The United States evacuated more than 300 more people on two new flights out of Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the fast-spreading new coronavirus, the State Department said. The two flights left Wuhan on Tuesday US time after the passengers were screened, a State Department official said. The official said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60897"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}