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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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I've been on half a dozen cruises. I really looked forward to the first one butter the rest were under duress to please my wife. Vastly overrated in my opinion but they really suit some people. Who are we to criticise?
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@jonsie wrote:I've been on half a dozen cruises. I really looked forward to the first one butter the rest were under duress to please my wife. Vastly overrated in my opinion but they really suit some people. Who are we to criticise?
I have friends who do 3 cruises a year and they love them. Not for me though.
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They are just too regimented....and just try to get a lounger round the pool !! Full of towels on empty ones!
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News today that a 3rd person in the UK has been diagnosed with the coronavirus.
Now in isolation.
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Wonder how soon it will be a pandemic....
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Well, it might just have reached this far north-western outpost:
Or not.
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Another 41 people on the cruise ship Diamond Princess have been diagnosed as positive.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-51409800
Sadly the Chinese doctor who first raised the alarm about the coronavirus (and was threatened by the authorities for scaremongering) has died after contracting the disease. He was 34.
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@Cleoriff wrote:Another 41 people on the cruise ship Diamond Princess have been diagnosed as positive.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-51409800
Sadly the Chinese doctor who first raised the alarm about the coronavirus (and was threatened by the authorities for scaremongering) has died after contracting the disease. He was 34.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-51409801
That is really frightening @Cleoriff
I would be very worried having to stay on board ~ I know I would have to. What I was thinking
though that in two weeks everyone will be sent off.
This couldn't be the end of it though surely
as a passenger could have the flu bug without it surfacing during this quarantine period.
It doesn't quite make sense to me.
