Coronavirus outbreak: Britons fly out of Wuhan as death toll passes 200
by Justin McCurry and Rebecca Ratcliffe from Science | The Guardian on (#4YPK5)
Flight carrying 83 British people and 27 foreign nationals will land in the UK on Friday as US tells citizens 'don't go to China'
A plane carrying more than 100 British and other EU nationals trapped in Wuhan, the city at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak, has left for the UK after Chinese spouses and partners were given permission to travel.
The chartered flight left Wuhan at 9:45am local time on Friday, the Foreign Office said in a statement. The plane was carrying 83 British people and 27 foreign nationals, and was scheduled to land at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire at 1 pm UK time.
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