Thai Holiday Over, Chinese Visitors Fly Home to Wuhan

An airline staffer who assist a charter flight, guides Chinese tourists from Wuhan, who stand in a line to get a seat to return to Wuhan at Suvarnabhumi airport, Bangkok, Thailand, on Jan. 31, 2020. Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP

BANGKOK—The holiday was over for almost 80 Chinese visitors to Thailand.

They were lining up at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport to catch a flight home—to Wuhan, their hometown and the epicenter of a viral outbreak that has sickened thousands and has been declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization.