A group of Australians on a coronavirus-hit cruise ship in Japan for two weeks touch down in Darwin on a special Qantas flight before being quarantined. Some 180 citizens and permanent residents had taken up the federal government's offer of a seat on the evacuation flight, which left Haneda Airport near Yokohama port in the early hours of Thursday morning. The Qantas Boeing 747 jet landed in Darwin at 9.41am AEDT before the first busload of evacuees arrived at a facility at Howard Springs, 30km southeast of the city.
A convoy of vehicles containing Australians evacuated from a coronavirus-hit cruise ship in Japan arrives at a facility at Howard Springs, 30km southeast of Darwin. Some 180 citizens and permanent residents took up the federal government's offer of a seat on an evacuation flight which left Haneda Airport near Yokohama port in the early hours of Thursday morning