Germany mulling evacuation of citizens from Chinese region affected by coronavirus

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A poster with information about the coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is displayed at Tegel Airport in Berlin, Germany, January 26, 2020. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany is considering evacuating German citizens from the Chinese region affected by coronavirus, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Monday.

“We are now also considering a possible evacuation of all Germans who are willing to leave,” Maas told a news conference, adding that a team from the German embassy in Beijing would arrive in Wuhan – the Chinese city where the coronavirus outbreak began – later in the day to help Germans there.

Maas said Germans should avoid all travel to China that was not absolutely necessary.

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