Inside the Aussie escape from virus-hit Wuhan coronavirus travel
Australian Daniel Ou Yang, 21, from Roseville in Sydney’s Upper North Shore, was one of those to take up the government’s offer to spend the next two weeks on Christmas Island in quarantine.
Mr Ou Yang spent more than eight hours waiting in Wuhan Airport for the Air New Zealand flight, with his boarding pass showing no departure time.Daniel Ou Yang said those on Christmas Island were grouped by family. Picture: ABC 7.30Hundreds of Australians and New Zealanders took up the offer to leave China with the flight stopping in Auckland to offload the Kiwis. Nationals from islands across the Pacific were also on board.
“It’s quite shameful that this has happened. Should Australians be scared of us after quarantine? Why should they?”A library is seen on Christmas Island in a supplied image from Peter Dutton's office.Source:Supplied There have been no confirmed cases of coronavirus infection among the evacuees and authorities say there is no risk of residents being exposed.
“The world is looking at Christmas Island where people are incarcerated for potentially having a communicable disease.“It’s obviously ruinous to the tourism industry. People are cancelling bookings, I know that, and raising their eyebrows when say they’re going back to Christmas Island.” Christmas Island Tourism development manager Philip Tubb said Mr Thomson’s comments were unhelpful.
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