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Coronavirus hits Bali: Chinese tourist tests positive after holidaying on the party island as two others are kept in isolation in hospital By Charlie Moore For Daily Mail Australia Published: 20:37, 12 February 2020 | Updated: 23:00, 12 February 2020 A Chinese tourist has reportedly tested positive to coronavirus after travelling …

A British student evacuated from Wuhan has today documented his journey from ‘living in fear’ and suffering panic attacks in coronavirus-hit China to life in quarantine in a Milton Keynes hotel with free Netflix. Camryn Turner, 27, was in the middle of a music course in the virus-ravaged city when the outbreak, …

A private school has been closed today after the family of some of their pupils were put in isolation over fears they may have contracted coronavirus. St Mary’s Independent School in Southampton, Hampshire, which charges up to £10,500 a year, is currently on lockdown after they showed symptoms of the …

London stocks were set to rise at the open on Thursday amid signs of easing trade tensions between the US and China. The FTSE 100 was called to open 55 points higher at 7,537. CMC Markets analyst David Madden said: “In a bid to improve China-US trading relations, overnight Beijing …

The European Union may be delaying the UK’s response to the coronavirus outbreak after it stalled over a decision to ban all direct flights from China and turn away foreign nationals who have been to the disease-stricken country within the last 14 days.   Scores of passengers fleeing the coronavirus-hit country have been …

Furious Britons stuck in coronavirus-hit China have today attacked the Government after it warned all 30,000 UK nationals to leave the country, as it emerged they would be expected to make their own way home.  In a dramatic escalation of its official advice to just avoid China, the Foreign Office …

A British evacuee from coronavirus-hit Wuhan today shared a glimpse of what life is like inside quarantine as he and 82 others spend their first day inside a nurses’ accommodation block in the Wirral.  Matt Raw, who was part of a group flown in from China on Friday over the coronavirus outbreak, revealed that …

A British evacuee from coronavirus-hit Wuhan last night shared an image from inside quarantine as he and 82 others spent their first night locked in a nurses’ accommodation block in the Wirral.  Ben Kavanagh is part of a group flown in from China over the coronavirus outbreak who will be holed up …

British Airways has today suspended all flights to mainland China with ‘immediate effect’ amid the escalating coronavirus crisis which has killed 130 people. The airline halted all bookings on its website for direct flights from London to Beijing and Shanghai until March, following the Foreign Office’s unprecedented advice last night urging …

Ministers are drawing up plans for the emergency evacuation of more than 200 Britons trapped at the centre of the deadly coronavirus epidemic in China. The Government, which initially said it would leave British citizens in Wuhan to avoid spreading the virus to the UK, performed a dramatic U-turn yesterday …