Australia will send dozens of residents trapped by China's coronavirus epidemic to New Zealand after co-ordinating an evacuation with the Kiwi government.

The deal will see Australian residents join 70 New Zealanders on an Air New Zealand flight on Tuesday. They will then be quarantined on a military base outside Auckland or transferred to Christmas Island, where the first batch of Australian evacuees from the Chinese city of Wuhan landed overnight.

After four days of negotiations with Chinese authorities and a 14-hour maze of medical and immigration checks, 243 Australian residents were evacuated on the first flight from the centre of the coronavirus outbreak on Monday.

Australian residents and Department of Foreign Affairs officials negotiated a web of road blocks across Hubei province, where all public and private transportation has been put into lockdown as the number of cases of the flu-like disease swelled to 17,318, with 362 deaths confirmed.