First plane carrying Americans from Japan virus ship lands in US

first plane carrying US citizens evacuated from a quarantined cruise ship in Japan landed at Travis Air Force Base in California late Sunday.

charter flight touched down around 11:29 pm (0729 GMT Monday) at base 40 miles (70 kilometers) rast of San Francisco, an AFP photographer saw.

passengers will be quarantined at base for 14 days. A second flight carrying rest of more than 300 US citizens and family members evacuated from Diamond Princess cruise ship was shortly due to land at ar base in San Antonio, Texas. Fourteen passengers h returned positive tests for new coronavirus shortly before flights departed Japan and were transported in an isolated part of aircraft, State Department said.

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