Hundreds more Americans evacuated from the city at the center of the were scheduled to land in California Wednesday morning. Two planes carrying about 350 people were headed for Travis Air Force Base in Northern California. One of them was to stay there, while the other was to refuel before continuing on to Miramar Marine Corps Air Station in Southern California.
All the passengers will spend up to two weeks under quarantine while they are monitored for symptoms of the potentially deadly new virus.
As of Wednesday morning the death toll from the virus stood at 492 — virtually all of them in mainland China — with more than 24,000 others infected. As CBS News correspondent Ramy Inocencio reports, all 65 of the deaths confirmed between Tuesday and Wednesday were from China’s central Hubei province, where Wuhan is located and where the evacuated Americans had been staying.
An American was one of 10 passengers on a Japanese cruise ship that tested positive for the coronavirus. That individual and the others infected were transferred Wednesday to a Japanese hospital. Thousands of others passengers remained quarantined on the ship.
