Baku/30.01.20/Turan: Turkish authorities sent a military transport plane to the Chinese city of Wuhan to evacuate from there citizens of Turkey (34 people), Azerbaijan (seven people), Georgia (seven people) and Albania (one person). According to Anadolu agency, there are also six doctors on board the Airbus A-400M.
All citizens brought from China will be quarantined in special departments of Turkish hospitals to check for the presence of a dangerous virus. Quarantine will last two weeks.
By Thursday, the number of people infected in China exceeded 7.7 thousand people, the number of deaths reached 170. In addition to China, a new virus was detected in 16 more countries. -02D-
Politics
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Chechnya will observe a day of mourning on December 28 following the crash of an Embraer 190 aircraft traveling from Baku to Grozny. The decree, signed by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, was reported by the local news agency "Chechnya Today."
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Volodımır Zelensky expressed his condolences due to crash of AZAL plane.
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The White House said Thursday that President Joe Biden 'has been and will continue to be' apprised of the situation around Azerbaijani passenger plane crash in Kazakhstan, and is "kept up to date on what's going on," TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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Criminal charges have been filed against officials from the Ministry of Health for issuing fake certificates for plastic surgery, a joint statement from the General Prosecutor's Office and the Ministry of Health on December 27. Specifically, the officials were uncovered for accepting bribes and creating conditions for illegal medical activities.
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