Carrie Lam, chief executive of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), said during a weekly press conference on Tuesday that the HKSAR will send four chartered planes to bring back 533 of its residents from central China's Hubei Province.

Two planes will pick up about 440 people from Wuhan City while the other two will transport people from other cities in Hubei Province, Lam explained. 

Lam said the chartered flights will arrive in Hong Kong on Wednesday and Thursday, and all of the passengers will be quarantined for 14 days.

Lam added that the region will also tighten measures to curb the import of virus cases and those arriving in Hong Kong from virus-hit areas will have to spend 14 days in quarantine.