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The BBC have announced that two patients in the UK have been diagnosed with the coronavirus.
No further details have been given other than they are both members of the same family and are receiving specialist NHS care.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51325192
At present, 83 Britons and 27 foreign nationals are flying back to the UK from Wuhan, the Chinese city at the centre of the outbreak.
The flight is due to land at RAF Brize Norton at 13:30 GMT.
The UK passengers will then be taken to Arrowe Park Hospital on the Wirral and quarantined for two weeks.
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Just to add, at this rate, we will be free to travel to countries abroad before these countries are safe to travel to! 
@jonsie out of interest, what's the situation in Thailand?
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In the meantime the wild mountain goats have taken over Llandudno
And these formed an orderly queue outside a hairdressers. 
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Thailand is still closed for foreign tourists but has just opened for domestic tourists after their recent lockdown
Bars are now open with a 12 midnight curfew but many,many bars are closed for good due to airports being closed for over 12 months
From the start of all this in November 2019 there have been around 27.000 cases and just 75 (seventy five) deaths but bear in mind that due to air quality, mask wearing is a way of life
They are hoping to re-open the country in October so I'm hoping to go and spend a little time in my house around Christmas and New Year
They will almost certainly insist on vaccination passports
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For such a large country thats a pretty low infection and death rate @jonsie
Pleased you will hopefully, be able to make it back there sometime this year. 
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As much as I didn't like it, closing down airports was the key and where the UK let us all down so badly.
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EMA stated at 16:30 today that AZ was in the clear:
And China said yesterday travellers to China needed to have been vaccinated with the Chinese vaccine. Hopefully that gets rescinded too...🤔 These vaccine passports could be interesting. I still have my yellow card showing Smallpox and Yellow Fever jab history, first jabs as a babe, last jabs needed when I was working in Central Africa in 1985.
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Every cloud has its silver lining - but demeaning others' temporary caution is not right - each jurisdiction needed time to understand the figures, the risk, the case histories, rightly so. With AZ back on track, doesn't the process make you feel more comfortable? (Longish read here, sorry)
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I agree caution @pgn
Although I have to say that the figures didn't stack up even for the medically...unlearned🥴
Although I have to say that the figures didn't stack up even for the medically...unlearned🥴
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An interesting read @pgn. I'm just not sure I agree with him. Simply due to the fact, that whilst other countries have the absolute right to be cautious until they do their own tests, they do NOT have the right to denigrate the UK's medical practices and policies by us continuing to use the AZ vaccine. We did our tests and looked at the stats and paused the vaccine whilst we assessed the claims regarding thrombosis. We just this this far faster than any other country.
Also within the EU we had the chief medical regulator for the EMA, declaring the safety of Astra Zenica, while governments still dithered.
Now that's a particular political tram (coining the phrase of the author) which could kill millions by totally derailing the vaccination process. .
