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An evacuation flight carrying more than 150 British passengers has left coronavirus-hit Wuhan for the UK amid the outbreak in the Chinese city. The Britons were airlifted from the Hubei province and flown back home in what will be the second and final flight to be chartered from the region by …

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 …

Millions of Chinese people have been ordered to stay in their homes tonight as health bosses try to disinfect an entire city ravaged by coronavirus.   Trucks will drive around spraying disinfectant through the streets of Huangshi, a city of 2.7million in Hubei province that neighbours the outbreak’s epicentre, Wuhan.  They will …

This is the NHS hospital where Britain’s first two coronavirus patients are being quarantined to stop the deadly disease sweeping the country. The two family members, believed to be Chinese nationals, were rushed into isolation at a specialist unit at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle this morning.  Access to …

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 …