===Evacuation of foreign diplomats and citizens from Wuhan===The governments of Australia , Belgium , Indonesia , New Zealand , the Philippines , South Korea , Thailand and the United States are planning evacuation flights or have sent evacuation flights for their citizens .
Due to the effective lockdown of public transport in Wuhan and Hubei province due to the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic , several countries started to evacuate their citizens and diplomatic staff from the area .