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 …
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Britons flying home from Wuhan on an emergency evacuation flight tomorrow are expected to have to sign a waiver allowing the Government to keep them in military quarantine for two weeks in case they’re infected. Up to 200 British expats with a place on the emergency flight out have finally …
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Boris Johnson has come under pressure to pull British diplomats out of Wuhan where infection from the deadly coronavirus is most potent. The United States was today preparing to evacuate 1,000 of its citizens and consulate staff from the disease-hit Hubei province, sparking speculation the UK would follow suit. But …
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The deadly coronavirus is ‘accelerating’ and China is facing a ‘grave situation’, the country’s president has said – as at least one doctor has died from the virus and the US prepares to evacuate citizens from crisis-hit Wuhan. The virus-hit Chinese city of Wuhan, already on lockdown and where the virus …
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British authorities are hunting for 2,000 people who flew in from Wuhan after the deadly coronavirus hit Europe with France confirming its first three cases and the death toll rising to 41 in China. It comes as one of the first UK patients to be tested for the killer condition – …
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The deadly coronavirus ravaging Asia is far more contagious than previously thought and someone who is infected can spread it with just a simple cough or a sneeze. It has so far killed 26 people and infected more than 900 in at least 10 countries within three weeks. But experts …
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Fourteen UK patients have been tested for the killer coronavirus after returning from China with flu-like symptoms, it can be revealed. The unidentified patients are thought to be from Wuhan, the city at the heart of the outbreak which has killed 18 people – officials today revealed the first person had …
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