Australia’s Wuhan Evacuees on Christmas Island Return Home

A general view of asylum seekers and facilities at Christmas Island Detention Centre, on Christmas Island on July 26, 2013. Scott Fisher/Getty Images

Australians quarantined on Christmas Island while they waited to be cleared of the symptoms of coronavirus have started to return home.

More than 200 people spent about two weeks at the island’s detention centre waiting to be cleared of the possibility of COVID-19.