Some evacuees from Christmas Island set off home today. (SBS Photo)
Combined Australian media reported that the first quarantined Australians on Christmas Island have now arrived in Australia.
This afternoon, the two planes were refueling in Port Hedland, Western Australia. One will continue to fly to Sydney and Canberra, while the other will head to Adelaide and Melbourne.
The third will fly through Perth and Brisbane. Another 35 people on Christmas Island will be waiting for another flight on Wednesday.
No one came home for further testing because they had been cleared of infection on outlying islands.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison had earlier thanked the evacuees for their sincere acceptance of the quarantine period, while ruling out the possibility of using Christmas Island to isolate the Australians who pulled out the Diamond Princess.
"My suggestion is that it will take a week to get the place ready again. On Christmas Island, it is impossible to meet the considerable special needs of more elderly people. "This is not an option that we consider for this operation," he said in Melbourne on Monday. In addition, we do not currently have other (diaspora) action plans. "
Two weeks ago, nearly 280 australian citizens and permanent residents flew from wuhan to the christmas island detention centre. Today`s two-week quarantine period has expired and they have been allowed to fly to their city today.
However, not everyone in the christmas island detention centre is on their way home today. Those on the Qantas flight to the island on February 3 will be "released" first. After completing a short bus tour of local attractions, they are scheduled to be taken to Christmas Island Airport.
The other 36 people on Air New Zealand were on the island 48 hours after the first evacuees arrived. If they still don`t have a new coronavirus, they can leave on Wednesday.
On Christmas Island, a child wears a mask for outdoor activities. (Photo by the Aussies)
On sunday,24 clinicians and other medical staff were sent to christmas island to oversee the quarantine of australians. They collected equipment and a tent hospital at the local John Howard-era immigration detention center.
A pharmacist and pediatrician in the Australian Medical Assistance Team (Australian Medical Assistance Team), led by Dan Holmes, said evacuees were optimistic on Sunday.
"Everything went well. He said the Centre could prepare for more quarantine work in a short period of time, pending the decision to send more people to the island.
"The Australian Medical Assistance Team is ready to do whatever it is required to do. Our tent can be set up in two hours if necessary. "he said.
However, it is not certain that Christmas Island will be able to accept more evacuees.
On February 9, another 266 Australians took a second Qantas evacuation flight, Leave Wuhan, to a former Japanese energy company worker camp in Howard Springs, near Darwin.
Affluent Chinese families cancel private jet charter
Gulfstream VH-CGF aircraft with milky leather seats. (Photo by the Aussies)
One of the first Australians to evacuate from Wuhan after completing a 14-day quarantine today had planned not to fly home on a plane sent by government, the Aussies reported.
Be Chu, a director at the real estate firm Greaton Holdings, and her husband, Kaitang Wang, had planned to take their two daughters on a private jet over the Indian Ocean.
The wood-panelled and milky leather seats on the Gulf Stream IV aircraft chartered from JetCity are a far cry from their clean but modest abode in the Christmas Island detention centre over the past two weeks. The metal tables and chairs in the detention center have long been soldered to the ground to prevent detainees from using them as weapons.
Gulfstream VH-CGF aircraft with luxury inside. (Photo by the Aussies)
Chu, wang kaitang and their children were scheduled to leave an hour before the arrival of the first of the three government charters.
The government`s charter flights will stop at Port Hedland, a small town of iron ore, to refuel, and then take evacuees home through the various state capital cities.
Chu Bei and Wang`s family would have flown to Sydney. The headquarters of Greaton Holdings is in Sydney. Since 2014, the ASIC documents have listed Mr Chu as a director of the company.
However, after the news was published last weekend, the family cancelled their private jet and are expected to leave with other evacuees.
One of Greaton`s most recent projects is the W Hotel in Darling Harbour, Sydney. The Weekend Aussies learned that Chu, Wang and his children were keeping a low profile while waiting for a 14-day quarantine. Before the news that they had wrapped the 10-person plane, the quarantined people next door didn`t know they had enough money to buy large tracts of land on christmas island.
