On Thursday, China dispatched two more charter planes to Manila in the Philippines to bring home a total of 460 Chinese citizens stranded abroad amid the coronavirus outbreak.

The two planes operated by XiamenAir departed from Manila and landed in Quanzhou and Xiamen at 8:21 p.m. on Thursday and 00:24 a.m. on Friday in east China's Fujian Province.

The Philippine government has announced that from February 2, all passengers from the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions who go directly to the Philippines, or who have visited those regions in the past 14 days, regardless of their nationality, will be temporarily banned from entering the Philippines. All China's domestic flights to the Philippines have been cancelled.

XiamenAir operated a total of 10 chartered flights from Manila to bring back stranded Chinese citizen from the Philippines.