Brits returning from China to be quarantined in a “Military Facility”
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It now seems to be the plan to send them to an “NHS facility”, which seem strange.
Theyre nit sick, so don’t need wards and beds, they need rooms and entertainment. If any fall sick thry then need isolating from the rest, not mixing. I also don’t think the NHS has a spare facility that size not being used......
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ne-for-14-days
Theyre nit sick, so don’t need wards and beds, they need rooms and entertainment. If any fall sick thry then need isolating from the rest, not mixing. I also don’t think the NHS has a spare facility that size not being used......
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ne-for-14-days
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Maybe they are watching the China model and planning a rapid 1000 bed hospital, now let's see, rushing it through public inquiries 12-20 months planning permission another year....... Maybe not 
Cruise liners fight disease breakouts all the time, while it gastro cant see a cruise line company wanting their liner to a be a quarantine then lose the revenenue from it and the massive clean / disinfect job that is going to be required
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A flight to bring about 200 British nationals back to the UK from coronavirus-hit Wuhan is unable to take off as planned on Thursday.
It is understood relevant permissions from Chinese officials have not yet come through.
It is understood relevant permissions from Chinese officials have not yet come through.
The flight from Wuhan, the city where the virus first emerged, had been expected to arrive at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on Thursday morning. Passengers were to be taken to an NHS facility.
However, a number of UK citizens in China have said local authorities have prevented members of their families from leaving because they hold Chinese passports.Jeff Siddle, from Northumberland, told the BBC he and his nine-year-old daughter had been told they could fly back - but not his Chinese his wife, who has a permanent residency visa for the UK ."My wife is distraught," he said. "The Chinese authorities are not allowing any Chinese residents to leave."
He added: "I had to make a decision where it's either my nine-year-old daughter, who's got a British passport, and myself to leave - and leave my wife here in China - or the three of us stay."
Another UK citizen due to be flown out of Wuhan said she was told to leave behind her three-year-old son because he has a Chinese passport.
He added: "I had to make a decision where it's either my nine-year-old daughter, who's got a British passport, and myself to leave - and leave my wife here in China - or the three of us stay."
Another UK citizen due to be flown out of Wuhan said she was told to leave behind her three-year-old son because he has a Chinese passport.
When we had the first UK AIDS victim flown into Brize from the USA in a Ten, If memory serves me correctly she was offloaded and shipped to a secure isolation unit where she sadly died, crew on were on full AR15 / oxygen and attending staff in NBC, she was in an isolation chamber... Aircraft then departed to Boscombe I think for a full decontam.. as it was a new disease at the time.
"Cruise liners fight disease breakouts all the time"
The Marie Celeste anyone?
The Marie Celeste anyone?
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Time to recommission the Coastel and position it off shore. Just a minute though. Where are the 1500 Chinese who arrived in the country without any med checks at all? This is discrimination.
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So, latest news - not an RAF aircraft, not an RAF crew and not Brize Norton.
It would appear the first two might have been the sticking point with China and the UK has now chartered an aircraft from somewhere else in Europe. Not Brize Norton because the identified facility is in the "north" and BZ is not convenient.
It would appear the first two might have been the sticking point with China and the UK has now chartered an aircraft from somewhere else in Europe. Not Brize Norton because the identified facility is in the "north" and BZ is not convenient.
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A ship appears to have sadly become available.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/li...ns-latest-news
https://www.theguardian.com/world/li...ns-latest-news
It now seems to be the plan to send them to an “NHS facility”, which seem strange.
Theyre nit sick, so don’t need wards and beds, they need rooms and entertainment. If any fall sick thry then need isolating from the rest, not mixing. I also don’t think the NHS has a spare facility that size not being used......
Theyre nit sick, so don’t need wards and beds, they need rooms and entertainment. If any fall sick thry then need isolating from the rest, not mixing. I also don’t think the NHS has a spare facility that size not being used......
The Cambridge mil at Aldershot might be re-opened with the large runway (Farnborough) next door.
Bodney Camp isn't too far away or maybe Woodbridge, but on the other hand, Little Rissington was a huge 'contingency' hospital but never used as such; is all the kit still there? .
https://www.airforce-technology.com/...repair-runway/ One phrase of which that jumps out is "the cost-plus, fixed-fee task order" which seems a little different from our processes...
As for the returning
RAF? North of England? For 300+ pers?
Spadeadam? Catterick? Blowed if I can think of anything else light blue and oop North yet not in Scotland that could take 300 peeps.
Spadeadam? Catterick? Blowed if I can think of anything else light blue and oop North yet not in Scotland that could take 300 peeps.
