A plane carrying 56 Italians from the eastern city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the virus outbreak, departed on Sunday night and landed at a military airport south of Rome at around 10:00 am on Monday.
Those evacuated will be examined by doctors and spend two weeks in quarantine at the Cecchignola military base as Italy works to contain the virus.
One Italian who had hoped to board the flight was ordered to remain in Wuhan after showing signs of fever and is under observation in a local hospital, Italian daily La Repubblica reported.
A further 10 Italians are believed to have decided to remain in Wuhan.
Meanwhile, China has begun flying Chinese tourists out of Italy after the Italian government suspended all commercial flights between the two countries last week as part of emergency measures taken when two cases of the coronavirus were confirmed in Rome.
The victims, both Chinese tourists, are being treated in isolation at a hospital in Rome, while the hotel room they were staying in has been sealed and disinfected.
A China Airlines plane from Taipei landed at Rome’s Fiumincino airport early on Monday morning to collect Chinese travellers stranded in Italy.
In China, 361 people have died of coronavirus and more than 17,000 cases of the virus have been confirmed.
There have also been more than 150 confirmed cases of the virus outside China, including one death in the Philippines.
