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The UK’s first two cases of the Wuhan coronavirus were confirmed in England on Friday, January 31. The patients, whose ages and nationalities have not been revealed but are known to be from the same family, were announced by the Department of Health. It came just hours before an evacuation …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 – …

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 …

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 …