Coronavirus: Final UK flight to bring home Britons from Wuhan
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said:"We have been working round the clock to help British nationals leave Hubei province, on UK, French and New Zealand flights.
"The Foreign Office is chartering a second and final UK flight with space to help all British nationals and their dependants remaining in Hubei to leave. "I encourage all British nationals in Hubei to register with our teams if they want to leave on this flight."On Friday, 83 UK citizens were repatriated on a flight out of Wuhan arranged by the UK government. Another 11 Britons joined them on Sunday on the French flight.
A further eight UK nationals and six of their family members left China on a flight to New Zealand on Tuesday.All but one of the Britons are now in quarantine at Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral for 14 days - the incubation period of the virus - to ensure they are not infected.Two people, a student at the University of York and one of their relatives, are being treated for coronavirus at the specialist infectious diseases unit at Newcastle Royal Victoria Infirmary.
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