Tag Archives: Coronavirus

As the spread of the coronavirus picks up its pace, it’s only natural that investors start wondering what that means for their portfolio. There are two main ways that people react to a market shock such as this: panic or profit. Panicked investors might sell-up and run for the hills, …

A frantic but farcical hunt is on for anyone who spent more than 15 minutes with a businessman who became the third person in the UK to test positive for coronavirus – but officials have not told the public who he is. Officials are desperately hunting for anyone who came into brief …

The UK’s third coronavirus patient is thought to be a Briton who caught the virus outside of China – sparking fears the outbreak is much more widespread than previously thought.  Public Health England said the patient had not visited the mainland and instead caught the highly contagious virus ‘elsewhere in …

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 …

Patients confirmed to have been infected with coronavirus have been treated at a contagious disease facility in Cottingham. Two patients were being looked after by a team of medics at the specialist unit inside Castle Hill Hospital before being transferred to Newcastle. Sources told Hull Live that hospital staff were …

The two relatives who have tested positive for the killer coronavirus are Chinese tourists who were staying in a budget hotel in York when they came down with the world’s most feared illness, it was revealed today.  The British Government is scrambling to find anyone who came into contact with …

The rescue flight from coronavirus-hit Wuhan will leave China tonight and fly up to 150 stranded Britons back home who will then enter a two-week quarantine at an NHS unit on the Wirrall. The UK is chartering a plane from a company in Spain and staffing it with RAF personnel …

Coronavirus fears have hit the UK after a British Airways plane from Hong Kong was put on lockdown on the runway amid fears infected patients were on board. The doors were kept sealed and passengers were prevented from getting off when it landed at 5am this morning after two travellers …

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 …