LANGKAWI: A travel agency here has denied an allegation
that hundreds of Chinese nationals had arrived on the island to escape the 2019
Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) as seen in a picture which has now gone viral on
social media.
Fantastic Tour Sdn
Bhd marketing manager Mohd Fadhil Kamaruddin explained that it was actually the
picture of the arrival of his agency’s passengers from Nanjing, China on Jan 17.
“Some 180
passengers from Nanjing arrived at the Langkawi International Airport at 6.00
am on Jan 17 via a special chartered flight using Malindo Air.
“They were
here for five days until Jan 21 and have returned home. That was an old picture
of the passengers arriving on Jan 17,” he told Bernama here today. –
Bernama
