{"id":13861,"date":"2020-02-07T03:44:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T18:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/06\/coronavirus-evacuation-flight-canada-leaves-some-family-members-stranded"},"modified":"2020-02-07T03:44:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T18:44:13","slug":"coronavirus-evacuation-flight-to-canada-leaves-some-family-members-stranded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13861","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus evacuation flight to Canada leaves some family members stranded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The evacuation flight is only open to Canadian passport holders \u2013 permanent residents and Chinese citizens are not eligible<\/p>\n<p>As an airplane <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/05\/coronavirus-small-canada-town-prepares-arrival-200-evacuees-wuhan\">chartered by the Canadian government <\/a>departs central China on Thursday, hundreds of evacuees will breathe a sigh of relief as they leave Wuhan, the center of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=2ahUKEwidgq6ZrL3nAhVKWs0KHZCBDyAQFjAAegQIAxAB&amp;url=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/06\/coronavirus-live-updates-in-china-wuhan-coronaviruses-outbreak-death-toll-latest-update-news&amp;usg=AOvVaw3A-Do9UGy8g8WQm7Rj7saR\">coronavirus outbreak<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>But others with close ties to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/canada\">Canada<\/a> will remain trapped in the quarantined city: the evacuation flight is only open to Canadian passport holders. Permanent residents and Chinese citizens are not eligible for a seat, unless they are the primary caregiver of a child on the flight manifest.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/06\/coronavirus-evacuation-flight-canada-leaves-some-family-members-stranded\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The evacuation flight is only open to Canadian passport holders \u2013 permanent residents and Chinese citizens are not eligibleAs an airplane chartered by the Canadian government departs central China on Thursday, hundreds of evacuees will breathe a sigh o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":483,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,41,244,50,1069,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-canada","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/483"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13862,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13861\/revisions\/13862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}