China's civil aviation authority has stepped up efforts to ensure continuous international flights in order to meet people's travel and business demands amid the ongoing novel coronavirus outbreak.

As the aviation industry faces turbulence amid the ongoing novel coronavirus pneumonia outbreak, the Civil Aviation Administration of China is requiring domestic air carriers to strive to maintain services along international routes.

Given the rapid spread of the COVID-19, many people who have to travel by plane are worried they will be affected with the coronavirus while sitting in a tight cabin. The risk of infection on airplanes is actually pretty low if appropriate self-protection measures are taken, said an expert from Xiamen Airlines.

Two more flights from Xiamen Airline with 17 medical teams were dispatched to Wuhan, Hubei province, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus pneumonia outbreak, on Sunday afternoon, said the civil aviation administration.

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China will not suspend its civil flights, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Thursday, adding that the concern is "baseless" that China might further restrict travel and make it harder for foreigners to leave the country through commercial flights.

Xiamen Airlines will dispatch nine charter flights from Feb 5 to 10 to the Philippines to bring home about 2,000 Chinese tourists stranded there following the coronavirus outbreak.

Centrally-administered State-owned enterprises, also known as central SOEs, have purchased and transported a large number of goods and materials for preventing and controlling the novel coronavirus epidemic from overseas this week, China's top State assets regulator said.

Turkey's popular tourism destinations are flooded with Chinese visitors, who are enjoying their seven-day Chinese Lunar New Year holiday there.

The first batch of charter flights sent by the Chinese government Friday evening brought back 199 stranded Hubei residents from overseas following the novel coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province.