This Saturday will leave a plane that will bring thirteen Colombians back from Wuhan

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(CNN Spanish) - The Colombian government will send a plane to evacuate thirteen Colombians from Wuhan on Saturday, epicenter of the new coronavirus.

According to a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the aircraft will depart from Bogotá at 3 am local time with a crew composed of 13 people from the Colombian Air Force, who will be accompanied by personnel from the National Institute of Health and the Colombian Red Cross.

After several stops, on the night of Tuesday, February 25, the plane will depart from Seoul to Wuhan for evacuation and from there will begin its return to Colombia with two technical stops, the first one in India, according to the official note .

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The evacuees will be subjected to medical checks before boarding, "both by the Chinese Government and by the team of specialists accompanying the mission." Once the plane lands back in Colombia, evacuated citizens will be quarantined “under the strictest
defined protocols for this topic ”.

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