Brit Coronavirus evacuees left behind in Wuhan to arrive in UK today on second rescue flight & join 14-day quarantine

A SECOND group of British citizens left stranded in Wuhan are due to arrive back in the UK today.

The evacuation flight from the coronavirus epicentre arrived on Friday with 110 passengers on board, including 83 UK citizens.

They are currently being held in quarantine at the Arrow Park Hospital on the Wirral for 14 days.

A 44-year-old man who died in the Philippines has become the 305th victim of the virus and the first fatality outside China.

Eleven more British nationals are reportedly arriving in the UK from Wuhan on Sunday after missing the first evacuation flight on Thursday.

The second raft of evacuees from the coronavirus-stricken city is being flown into the UK via France, according to the BBC,

Arrow Park Hospital hospital’s chief executive Janelle Holmes has emailed staff to expect a second group of British evacuees to arrive today.

“Dear colleagues, I wanted you to be amongst the first to know that tomorrow morning we will be receiving an additional group of citizens from Wuhan,” she wrote, the Echo reports.

“We were asked to accommodate a small number of UK citizens who did not make the flight on Thursday from China with the last group.

“The same safe-guarding arrangements and support are being put in place to get them here that were used for the first group of guests.

“None of this group has any symptoms. There will be further screening by Public Health England (PHE) when they land in the UK.”

The second evacuation comes as it emerged many were left stranded after they said diplomats gave them just two hours notice to get to Wuhan international airport for the flight back home.

The British passengers on the evacuation flight – who have mainly been in Wuhan and the surrounding Hubei province – had to sign a contract agreeing to isolation before they could board the flight, and underwent temperature checks.

The evacuation came after the UK’s four chief medical officers raised the risk level of the illness from low to moderate and the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared an international public health emergency.