KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia on Tuesday (Feb 4) airlifted out of China, 107 people comprising Malaysians and non-Malaysian spouses and children who had been stranded in coronavirus-hit Wuhan city that has been under a lockdown since Jan 23.

The evacuation of the 88 Malaysians and 19 non-Malaysian next-of-kin was completed in just over 14 hours, with a special AirAsia aircraft departing KL International Airport 2 (klia2) at 3.50pm on Monday (Feb 3) and returning to KLIA with the evacuees by 6am Tuesday.