The news that Brits coming from coronavirus-hit Wuhan has sparked a number of reactions from local residents.
More than 80 Britons on an evacuation flight from the Chinese city at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak are due to land in the UK on Friday afternoon.
The flight is expected to arrive at the Brize Norton RAF base in Oxfordshire around 1pm, the FCO said in a statement.
On arrival, they will be taken by bus to Arrowe Park Hospital on the Wirral for a quarantine period of 14 days, where they will be housed in an NHS staff accommodation block with access to the internet.
Anyone with coronavirus symptoms will be taken to the Royal Liverpool Hospital, which has a high-level infectious diseases unit.
Wirral residents will not be at risk.
But that hasn't stopped some expressing their concerns on social media.
Adrian said: "Well, that’s ... reassuring."
Dale tweeted: "Why the Wirral!!? Nice one."
Gerard wrote: "Australia are putting the people evacuated from China on an island 1000 miles of the coast of Australia, England are putting them on Merseyside."
And Phillip tweeted: "Oh great, Wirral's in the news, you don't often see that, so often overshadowed by Liverpool, it'd be great to see it get some positive pub... oh."
However, other users looked to reassure locals.
Graham responded to comments saying: "You'd think it was the start of the zombie apocalypse, it's a shame some people don't understand the word quarantine."
And Rebecca tweeted: "Due to give birth at Arrowe Park any day now and I have full faith in all the wonderful NHS staff that they can deal with this developing situation.
"Let's hope the people pass through their two weeks quarantine with ease and it goes quickly for them."
Wirral West MP Margaret Greenwood said she was told by the health secretary that the government did not think any of the people being flown back from Wuhan would be carrying the virus.
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.
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.
