Coronavirus: Britons have been advised to avoid all non-essential foreign travel for 30 days
At this stage, the FCO is not currently advising all British people abroad to return home, except for a small number of countries already contained in its travel advice.
"The speed and the range of those measures across other countries is unprecedented, some of those decisions are being made without notice. The announcement comes after the European Union unveiled plans for a 30-day ban on non-residents entering the bloc, restrictions that are not expected to apply to Britons.
"And why is that? Because the embassy itself has decided to close down for 15 days just when its services were needed most.
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