Charter flight carrying 72 people is first of four flights taking evacuees from WA to the island where they will be quarantined for two weeks
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The first Australians evacuated from the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China, have touched down on Christmas Island.
Seventy-two people were on board the first of four charter flights expected to take more than 240 evacuees to the Indian Ocean island.
