BREAKING: Four of the 32 cruise ship passengers taken to Arrowe Park on Saturday have tested positive for coronavirus
Four of the 32 cruise ship passengers taken to Arrowe Park, Merseyside, on Saturday have tested positive for coronavirus strain COVID-19, the Chief Medical Officer for England has said.
The passengers spent two weeks quarantined on board the Diamond Princess liner before being flown into the UK last night.
The evacuation flight landed at Boscombe Down airbase in Wiltshire yesterday, after leaving Tokyo on Friday night.
The people, which include 30 Brits and two Irish nationals, now face a further two weeks in quarantine on Merseyside.
The news comes just days after 83 British evacuees were released from the unit on the Wirral after spending two weeks in quarantine there following a flight out of the epicentre of the disease in Wuhan.