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Turkish students evacuated from Italy amid coronavirus fears
09:58 March 25, 2020 AA
Some 188 students from Italy's Milan Malpensa Airport landed at Samsun Carsamba Airport in Samsun province on a Turkish Airlines flight onMarch 25, 2020. All evacuees were referred to dormitories in Samsun province. They will be placed in quarantine for 14 days as part of Turkey's coronavirus quarantine measures. Turkey evacuated hundreds of its citizens early Wednesday from seven countries where it has suspended international flights due to the novel coronavirus. “We have completed the evacuation process of 2,721 students who wanted to return to Turkey from the U.K., Ireland, Switzerland, Poland, Italy, Egypt and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus where flights are suspended,” Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said on Twitter.