A bus leaves a port where the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship is docked Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020, in Yokohama, near Tokyo. (File photo: AP)

The third charter flight for Chinese nationals aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship arrived in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Sunday morning.

The plane arrived at around 6:00 a.m. with five passengers from HKSAR, an official from the HKSAR government's Security Bureau said on Sunday.

Earlier, the first and second chartered flights brought 188 passengers back to Hong Kong and 20 came back on their own.

All the passengers will be quarantined for 14 days at a housing estate in the New Territories.

As of Saturday, a total of 634 coronavirus cases were confirmed on the cruise ship, with 68 from HKSAR. The infected patients received treatment in local hospitals in Japan.