A FLIGHT carrying British nationals stuck in Wuhan set off a year ago today.

The flight was carrying 83 British people and 27 foreign nationals from coronavirus-hit China to Brize Norton.

It had left the capital at 9.45am local time on Friday and touched down at the RAF base in West Oxfordshire at 1.30pm on January 31 last year.

Ambulances joined the plane on the runway and passengers, including small children, began disembarking just before 2pm.

Passengers walked down the stairs onto the runway wearing masks and the first to leave appeared to be a young family.

It came as the first two cases of coronavirus were confirmed in England.

The pair are members of the same family, according to Chief Medical Officer for England Professor Chris Whitty. 

While none of the people on the plane were confirmed infected with the deadly disease, they were all quarantined at Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral for 14 days.

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