Coronavirus: first group of Australian evacuees taken to Christmas Island

Charter flight carrying 72 people is first of four flights taking evacuees from WA to the island where they will be quarantined for two weeks

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The first Australians evacuated from the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China, have touched down on Christmas Island.

Seventy-two people were on board the first of four charter flights expected to take more than 240 evacuees to the Indian Ocean island.