Health Secretary Matt Hancock chaired a COBRA meeting on Wednesday afternoon as the coronavirus crisis deepens.
It comes as the World Health Organisation announced it will hold a meeting tomorrow to decide whether or not to declare an international emergency over the illness.
The UK Foreign Office has warned against all but essential to mainland China. The death toll in the country has risen to 132, with confirmed infections surging to nearly 6,000.
Officials are looking at quarantining British passengers returning from China at a military base once they arrive home, the Department of Health said. A flight is due to leave Wuhan in China on Thursday.
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