The Foreign and European Affairs Ministry on Sunday confirmed that the four Croatian citizens who were in Wuhan where the coronavirus was first detected, were flown from China to France on Sunday and would stay in quarantine for the next 14 days.

They were passengers aboard a jet carrying 250 Europeans from the coronavirus-hit Chinese city, and the plane landed at a military base near the southern port city of Marseilles.

All those passengers will undergo a 14-day quarantine in a holiday camp, in case they are carrying the new coronavirus. After the expiry of the 14-day incubation period, they will be able to return to their countries of origin.

The Croatian ministry also thanked the French and Chinese authorities for assistance in organising the evacuation of the Croatians from Wuhan.

Croatian woman arrives from China, minister says no room for panic

The Croatian woman who was flown to Zagreb’s airport on Sunday after she left Wuhan 12 days ago, shows no symptoms of possible infection by the novel coronavirus, and she will stay in quarantine for two more days until the expiry of the 14-day-long incubation period, Health Minister Vili Beros said on Sunday afternoon.

He reiterated that there was no room for panic, and explained that the woman had no symptoms of the new communicable disease that was first detected in Wuhan.

The woman, who departed from Wuhan 12 days ago, was today welcomed at the airport by the minister, accompanied by epidemiologist Bernard Kaic and the head of Zagreb’s crisis management department, Pavle Kalinic.

There are no reported cases of coronavirus in Croatia, and the authorities reassure the general public that everything is under control.