AN AirAsia flight bringing Malaysians and non-citizen family members home from Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus (nCov2019) outbreak, landed at KLIA at 5.57am today.

On board flight chartered for the humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) mission were107 individuals, comprising Malaysians and their non-citiizen spouses and children, were brought home in the special flight which departed from Wuhan Tianhe International Airport.

Also on board were 12 crew members, eight HADR mission personnel and six officers from the Malaysian embassy in Beijing.

AirAsia flight AK8264 departed from klia2 for Wuhan at 3.50 pm yesterday and arrived at Wuhan Tienhi International Airport at 9.10pm yesterday.

The aircraft also brought with it 500,000 pairs of rubber gloves as a contribution to the Chinese government in an effort to contain the 2019-nCoV outbreak.

Yesterday, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail was reported as saying that all passengers on board the flight, on arrival in Malaysia, would have to undergo health screening at the air disaster unit (ADU) at KLIA.

Those detected with the symptoms will immediately be sent to hospital, while others will be taken by bus to a monitoring centre. – Bernama, February 4, 2020.