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NEW SOUTH WALES: 27 January 25 Three men aged 43, 53, and 35 who had recently travelled to China contracted the disease. Two flew in from Wuhan while the other arrived in Sydney from Shenzhen, south China. They were treated in isolation at Westmead Hospital. January 27 A 21-year-old woman is identified as the fourth … Read more
One in 20 labour ward mothers are ‘health tourists’: Figures from NHS’s biggest hospital trust are a clue to the real cost of maternity care for visitors Health tourism is bigger problem than thought at Britain’s largest health trust Barts NHS Trust, London likely to be due nearly £4.5 million by maternity tourists New figures … Read more
None of the remaining 700-plus guests at a hotel in Spain’s Canary Islands on lockdown over the coronavirus have shown any symptoms of the virus and 130 of them have been cleared to leave the building, a spokesman for the regional government said on Thursday. The guests at Tenerife’s H10 Costa Adeje Palace Hotel have … Read more
Some guests chose to stay in their rooms. Others put on their face masks and decided to relax by the hotel’s swimming pool. The two approaches were just one sign of the confusion and frustration facing a group of British holidaymakers being contained in a Tenerife hotel for two weeks. Frustrated guests pleaded with Boris … Read more
The typically-bustling streets of Milan have been left empty as Italy struggles with the spread of the deadly coronavirus. The country went from six cases to more than 400 with 12 dead since last Friday, becoming Europe’s worst-affected region. Now Milan’s once-packed roads have been left empty as the country battles with being the continent’s … Read more
Quarantined tourists lounged by a swimming pool and sipped on free champagne at a Tenerife hotel today as they settled in for a two-week lockdown. Hundreds of guests will be locked in the H10 Costa Adeje Palace for 14 days to stop the spread of coronavirus, Spanish authorities confirmed today. The trapped tourists include around 160 … Read more
Hundreds of Britons are feared to be trapped in a Tenerife hotel that has been placed in lockdown due to a coronavirus outbreak. Roughly 700 guests were confined to their bedrooms at the four-star H10 Costa Adeje Palace Hotel in a desperate attempt to stop the virus from spreading. British guests described how their trips … Read more
Italy’s spiralling coronavirus outbreak has started to spill across the continent, with a tourist from the infection-plagued Lombardy region testing positive on Tenerife. The patient, understood to be a doctor, had travelled to the Spanish holiday island from the Italian region, which has been locked down following a cluster of cases. Seven people have died … Read more
British tourists last night attacked the Government’s ‘pitiful’ response to Italy’s coronavirus crisis. Furious passengers set to travel to Italian cities hit by the outbreak said they had been left in the lurch with no official safety advice. As other countries ramped up advice not to travel to the Italy crisis zone, Downing Street insisted … Read more
An evacuation flight carrying 32 British and European passengers who were on the coronavirus-riddled Diamond Princess has landed in Britain. A fleet of coaches is poised and ready to transport the passengers to their two-week quarantine stint in the Wirral. The amount of people flying back to Britain is less than half of the 78 … Read more