Eleven Britons are due to arrive back from coronavirus-hit China to join 83 UK nationals who are in quarantine on Merseyside.
It comes as a man in the Philippines became the first person to die from the virus outside China.
The second group of British evacuees boarded a French flight and will also be brought to Arrowe Park Hospital in the Wirral where they will spend 14 days in quarantine, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said.
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Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told Sky’s Sophy Ridge On Sunday: “It’s correct that there is a further French flight that is expected back in Europe today and that will carry some UK nationals.”
