Spain says evacuation flight has left China

The Spanish government said a flight carrying 19 Spanish citizens had left China in the early hours of the morning tioday and was due to land outside London at 1:30pm local time, The Guardian reports.

Spanish citizens will then be flown to Torrejón military airport near Madrid.

The plane is carrying 120 passengers, of whom 19 are Spanish, one is a Polish citizen resident in Spain, and one is a Chinese citizen married to a Spaniard. Two Danish couples and a Norwegian citizen will also be on the plane from the UK to Madrid. Also onboard are 83 British citizens.