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Added on the 04/08/2021 15:39:31 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
A plane carrying Belarusian Olympic athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya arrives in Poland, where she is expected to take refuge after saying she feared for her life if forced to return home. The Polish airline LOT flight from Vienna, where she stopped over on her way from Tokyo, landed in Warsaw at 8:11pm (1811 GMT), according to the arrivals screen at Warsaw Airport. IMAGES
A Middle East Airlines plane carrying an expected first batch of 28,500 doses of Pfizer/BioNTech flown in from Belgium lands in Beirut airport, a day before vaccinations kick off in the crisis-hit Mediterranean country. IMAGES
The first plane carrying US citizens evacuated from a quarantined cruise ship in Japan land at Travis Air Force Base in California. The charter flight touched down around 11:29 pm (0729 GMT Monday) at the base 40 miles (70 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco, an AFP photographer saw. IMAGES
The second plane chartered by France carrying 250 people, including 65 French people from Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus epidemic in China, lands at a French military base in Istres, near Marseille. IMAGES
A charter plane carrying evacuees from the Chinese city at the centre of the deadly novel coronavirus outbreak lands at an RAF base in Britain. The flight touched down at Royal Air Force base Brize Norton, in Oxfordshire, south central England, shortly after 1:30 pm (1330 GMT), with 83 British citizens and 27 others on board. IMAGES