[媒體名稱] BBC [新聞日期] 2020/01/29
[網址]
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51304204
[內文]
A planned flight to bring 200 British nationals back to the UK from
coronavirus-hit Wuhan is unable to take off as planned on Thursday.
It is understood relevant permissions from Chinese officials have not yet
come through.
The Foreign Office said it was "working urgently" to organise a flight to the
UK "as soon as possible".
The virus has caused more than 130 deaths, spreading across China and to at
least 16 other countries.
The flight from Wuhan, the city where the virus first emerged, had been
expected to arrive at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on Thursday morning.
Passengers were to be taken to an NHS facility.
When the passengers do return they will be put in "supported isolation" for
14 days with "all necessary medical attention", a Downing Street spokesman
said.
The Foreign Office said a number of countries' flights had been unable to
take off as planned.
"We remain in close contact with the Chinese authorities and conversations
are ongoing at all levels," the spokeswoman added.
Hundreds of foreign nationals are being evacuated from Wuhan, with Japan, the
US and the EU among those repatriating their citizens.
Some 200 Japanese nationals have been flown from Wuhan and have landed at
Tokyo's Haneda airport.
Roughly 200 Americans - including workers from the local US consulate - have
also left Wuhan on an evacuation flight.
However, on Wednesday, a British man in Wuhan told the BBC that Chinese
authorities were refusing to grant permission for his Chinese wife to
accompany him back to the UK.
Jeff Siddle, from Northumberland, said he and his nine-year-old daughter had
been told they could fly back - but only without his wife, who has a
permanent residency visa for the UK.
"My wife is distraught," he said. "The Chinese authorities are not allowing
any Chinese residents to leave."
He added: "I had to make a decision where it's either my nine-year-old
daughter, who's got a British passport, and myself to leave - and leave my
wife here in China - or the three of us stay."
Another UK citizen due to be flown out of Wuhan said she was told to leave
behind her three-year-old son because he has a Chinese passport.
Natalie Francis, originally from York, said: "I literally had no words when I
got the call."
"All three of us are in Wuhan at the moment," she added. "Physically we are
fine, but the stress of being locked up for so long... the emotional health
is starting to suffer a little bit... especially after this news."
The Foreign Office said its priority was to keep British nationals and their
families together.
[心得]
簡單來說，原本這週四(今天)的英國200人撤僑專機因為還未周到中國方面的許可而無法按時起飛
原定該機將會降落在牛津郡的Brize Norton皇家空軍基地，之後由NHS(National Health Service)進行14天的監控
另外新聞還有提到，英國公民的中國籍配偶並未得到中國方的出境許可，因此他陷入是否單獨帶著孩子離開武漢的抉擇
對此，英國外交部表示將會盡全力使英國國民的家庭團聚