BREAKING: Coronavirus declared 'imminent threat' to public health as death toll hits 908
The spread of coronavirus is a ‘serious and imminent threat’ to the British public, the health secretary has said.
The Britons were flown home by a government-chartered flight on Sunday before being taken by coach to Milton Keynes On Sunday, new cases were reported in the UK, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia and Spain, with more than 400 cases now confirmed outside mainland China. It follows an initial flight that brought some 80 Brits back to the UK in January, who are being kept in quarantine at Arrowe Park Hospital on the Wirral.A British man claims he wasn’t allowed on the last government-chartered flight out of Wuhan because he was wearing too many clothes and failed a temperature test.
Josh Skarratts told Sky News he is now ‘trapped’ in the Chinese city of Wuhan after missing the last evacuation flight Josh, a comedy club owner, said another Briton was turned away for the same reason. British honeymooner Alan Steele, who was transferred from the cruise liner to hospital in Japan with coronavirus was said to be feeling well and in good spirits over the weekend.Two other patients who had recently travelled from China are being treated at the Royal Victoria Infirmary infectious diseases centre in Newcastle.What is the coronavirus and where did it start?
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