NZ Wuhan evacuees are all doing well

A health official said that all passengers who arrived on a charter flight carrying New Zealanders home from central China that landed in Auckland are not displaying any symptoms of the new and deadly virus.

New Zealand Ministry of Health's Director-General of Health Dr. Ashley Bloomfield told reporters outside Auckland Airport on Wednesday that the passengers looked very tired but relieved to arrive in the country.

The 190 passengers evacuated from Wuhan, the Chinese city at the center of the virus outbreak.

They include 98 New Zealand citizens or residents, 35 Australian citizens or residents, and others from Pacific nations including Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Samoa.

Most of the passengers will be taken by bus to a military facility where they will be held in quarantine for two weeks.

The Australians are to be transferred directly onto another flight.

Also on board are eight British, one Dutch and 1 Uzbek.

There are no confirmed cases in New Zealand.