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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 …

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 …