Uzbekistan suspends regular flights to China

AKIPRESS.COM - Uzbekistan has temporarily suspended regular flights to China amid the coronavirus outbreak, the official media report.
Chartered flights are planned to evacuate Uzbekistan's citizens from China.
The decision was taken by a government commission established by a decree of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on January 29.
Government commission instructed the Foreign Ministry to notify the Chinese side that Uzbekistan is temporarily suspending regular flights between the countries.
Parliamentary Senate reports that 72 students from Uzbekistan are currently in China.
An outbreak of previously unknown pneumonia later identified as a new type of coronavirus and denoted as 2019-nCoV was registered in China's Wuhan in late Dec.2019.
The World Health Organization has declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency of international concern.