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First Australian evacuees set to leave Christmas Island after no reported cases of coronavirus
Australians evacuated from Wuhan will board three chartered flights on Monday
The first cohort of Australian evacuees are set to leave quarantine on Christmas Island on Monday, with no reported cases of the new coronavirus among the 277 Australian citizens and permanent residents held on the island.
A government-chartered evacuation flight brought 241 Australians from Wuhan on 3 February, with another 36 arriving two days later, via a New Zealand government charter through Auckland, that left China on 5 February.