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Coronavirus: second Australian flight from Wuhan to take evacuees to disused village near Darwin

Qantas awaits final approval from China, with evacuees possibly being quarantined in Inpex mining village in Northern Territory

A second Qantas coronavirus evacuation flight is scheduled to fly overnight on Friday to rescue more Australians from virus-hit Wuhan and take them to a quarantine site outside Darwin.

On Friday the flight was still awaiting final approval from Chinese authorities to take people out of the locked down city in China’s central Hubei province, but preparations were being made for Australians to leave for the new quarantine centre rather than Christmas Island, where the first Qantas evacuees were taken.

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