政府、邦人退避へ週内にも第５便　帰国支援に「一区切り」

　政府は新型コロナウイルスの感染が広がる中国湖北省に残る在留邦人とその家族を退避させるため、チャーター機第５便を週内にも現地に派遣する。茂木敏充外相が１０日、記者団に明らかにした。外相は「第５便をもって帰国オペレーションに一区切りを付けたい」と述べ、帰国希望者は第５便を逃さないよう呼び掛けた。
　政府は在中国大使館のホームページなどを通じて改めて帰国希望を募り、希望者の準備が整い次第、第５便を羽田空港から出発させる方針だ。（2020/02/10-20:16）

The Japanese government plans to send a fifth chartered flight to Hubei Province in China as early as this week to evacuate its nationals and their family members from the center of the coronavirus outbreak, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said Monday.
   "With the fifth flight, we will call it a day for now for our operations bringing back Japanese people by chartered planes," Motegi told reporters, calling on citizens hoping to return home not to miss the flight.
   The operations brought back a total of 763 Japanese nationals and their families between Jan. 28 and Friday sending four chartered flights to Hubei's Wuhan.
   There remain several tens of people in Hubei wishing to come back to Japan, including government officials tasked with supporting Japanese nationals on returns home, sources familiar with the situation said.
   Initially, the government considered getting Japanese nationals to travel to airports outside Hubei where regular flights are still in operation. With a fall in such regular flights, however, it decided to send the fifth chartered flight.