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"Coronavirus" Britons on Wuhan flights to be Quarantined

The latest on the virus outbreak in China hundreds of British citizens waiting to be flown home from the worst affected the region will be put in quarantine for two weeks on their return to the UK passengers will apparently be asked to sign a contract agreeing to commit to what's called supported isolation

Suspended flights:

Though the location of that is not yet known British Airways has suspended all direct flights to and from mainland China because of the outbreak the virus first detected in the city of Wuhan has caused more than 130 deaths,

Spread coronavirus:

So far spreading from China and to at least 15 other countries in a moment we'll have more from our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh,

John Said:

China correspondent John said, Worth safely out of Wuhan a plane arriving at a California airbase with 200 Americans onboard

Earlier Japan got a flight full of its citizens out touching down in Tokyo the night before the great escape but the Brits are still only preparing to leave Khan

Lambert's grandmother Vera stuck here on holiday is running low on her medications how to do you feel about going home there's frustration with the UK government I think it's been an absolute shambles, to be honest with you.

I don't think the government have really known what they've been doing I don't think they've had as much contact with the Chinese authors as they say because if they had you know I would assume that they had been getting the same information that the Americans have forgotten that the Japanese had got,

And they'd have been able to put plans in place sooner despite the lockdown infections in Wuhan are still raising rapidly,

And anyone has flown home from here faces two weeks in UK quarantine Maeve Clark a lecturer from Birmingham stuck in Wuhan said she understands why I think it's a good precautionary measure as well,

Road blokes:

And I think it gives reassurance to people back home back in the UK that the right steps much are still not known about the virus but across China, fewer taking any chances villagers are putting up roadblocks and shutting out the world with great barriers of Earth no outsiders are allowed in at all this man tells me beyond the human cost for China,

There's another impact to all of this fear with countries beginning to advise against travel with Airlines canceling the flight,

And with whole villages cutting themselves off from the outside world

The economic cost is likely to be severe for some UK nationals escape is not an option NIC houses British but his wife's from Indonesia she's been told she can't get a place on the plane they face longer weeks of uncertainty in a ghost the city well, Hugh, this appears to be a hugely complex and fluid situation.

The UK government has just said that the flight will not now take off on Thursday as planned because the necessary Chinese permissions have not been given we also understand that it is China's own rules that prevent non-British citizens from boarding that flight.

The UK the government says it is working to keep families together clearly some difficult negotiations going on behind the scenes Wuhan was once one of the most dynamic and connected cities on the planet this the virus has made it one of the hardest places to leave John many thanks again John Sabbath over the latest for us in Beijing well earlier.

The health secretary Matt Hancock chaired a meeting ofCobra that's the government's Emergency Committee to discuss the British response to the outbreak of coronavirus.

The World Health The organization says the whole world needs to take action to stop the spread of the new virus our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh has the latest this was the last British Airways flight from mainland China arriving at Heathrow this afternoon from Shanghai another flew in from Beijing.

It follows the Foreign Office advising against all but essential travel there the suspension of be flights to and from the mainland.

China until Friday but Maybe extended my worry was I thought well I forgot if I get you going to the hospital the health secretary Matt Hancock said, anyone returning from Wuhan on a repatriation flight would be safely isolated for 14 days,

But where health officials suggested a military base but the Ministry of Defense wouldn't confirm this and Britain'swaiting in China say they've not been told so is quarantine sensible I think that this is a pretty balanced response actually given the circumstances, on the one hand, you have individuals,

Who were marooned in China at the moment and there's a responsibility to British subjects to look after their interests against that of protecting the British public,

And making sure that we don't bring back people and actually cause an outbreak of this coronavirus in the UK

The new the virus which emerged in China is a variety of coronavirus they take their name from these surface proteins which look like the tips of a crown now a lot of common calls are caused by coronaviruses,

Three Dangerous diseases:

1.  SARS

2.  MERS

3.Coronavirus

In the past 20 years three dangerous.

SARS:

New strains have jumped from animals to humans the SARS virus emerged in 2002 in China and killed nearly 800 people worldwide about one in ten of those infected.

MERS:

MERS originated in Saudi Arabia in 2012 it since killed around 850 people in three of one those infected.

CORONAVIRUS:

The new China coronavirus seems to be far less dangerous it's unclear what the death rate is because of thousands of in affected patients are still in the hospital but it does seem much less lethal than SARS and MERS now it's worth pointing out that seasonal influenza flu causes up to six hundred,

And fifty thousand deaths globally each year as with flu there's mounting evidence

Symptoms:

It's passed through the air in coughs orby people touching droplets on surfaces the virus infects the lungs causing a fever cough and in some cases breathing difficulties and pneumonia the incubation period is generally, three to seven days but maybe up to 14 days.

The next two weeks will be crucial in seeing whether this outbreak Peaks in Wuhan and how much it spreads.