Second Armenian citizen to be evacuated from China by Russian Aerospace Forces

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 10:48, 5 February, 2020

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 5, ARMENPRESS. An Armenian national will be evacuated from China on board a Russian military plane, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said, according to TASS.

She said that two planes of the Russian Aerospace Forces have flown to China to evacuate people to Russia's Tyumen region. 147 people will be evacuated, including 10 Belarusian citizens, three citizens of Kazakhstan, one citizen of Armenia and one Ukrainian citizen, she said. One of the planes has already arrived to Russia. The other one is on its way. 

Popova said the arriving passengers will be quarantined for two weeks in a special territory of a medical center, which will be guarded by the Russian National Guards.

On February 4, an Armenian foreign ministry official announced that the second Armenian citizen will be evacuated from lockdown in China amid the new coronavirus outbreak.

The first Armenian national to be airlifted out of Wuhan, China was a student who is currently in Kazakhstan under quarantine. She was evacuated on February 2 by Kazakhstan.

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan




Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS