‘Arrogant’ US officials snub Harry family
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HARRY Dunn’s parents have been declined a meeting with the US State Department over the 19-year-old’s death.
Tim Dunn and Charlotte Charles hoped to discuss the matter after advice from the British embassy in Washington DC.
But they have been told a “decision on this case has already been made”.
Harry was killed when his motorbike collided with a car outside RAF Croughton, Northants.
Anne Sacoolas, the wife of a US intelligence official, claimed diplomatic immunity and went home.
They claim US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “made a political decision” not to extradite her.
Their spokesman said: “It is the worst case of arrogance I can remember.”
BRITS across China are being urged to leave as coronavirus cases soar.
Two flights have so far evacuated 94 UK nationals and family members from Wuhan, where the outbreak began.
A Belgian woman on the second flight has tested positive for the virus, it emerged yesterday. Nick Phin of Public Health England said: “All the individuals on this flight are in supervised isolation and are being monitored for symptoms.”
Government advice for the 30,000 Brits in China was ramped up as the death toll there rose to 425, with 20,438 confirmed cases.
A man of 39 who died in Hong Kong after visiting Wuhan has become the second killed by the virus outside China, after a 44-yearold in the Philippines days earlier.
The last evacuation flights from the virus epicentre of Hubei province are due to leave this week.
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said: “We now advise British nationals in China to leave the country if they can, to minimise their risk of exposure to the virus. Where there are still British nationals in Hubei province who wish to be evacuated we’ll continue to work around the clock to facilitate this.”
He told MPs 14 places were allocated
“for UK nationals and their way off. We’re not going to dependants” on an Air New get a vaccine to deal with Zealand flight yesterday. this outbreak. There was
Commercial flights are still work in developing a SARS leaving airports outside Hubei vaccine but when [that] was but China is increasingly cut PLEA Dominic Raab over, it stopped.” off as British Airways and Virgin Atlantic Announcing a £20millon boost to have suspended flights there. developing a vaccine, Health Secretary The Foreign Office advice is not a legal Matt Hancock said: “We haven’t seen the restriction on travel, which the peak of coronavirus and we expect more World Health Organisation deems cases in the UK. We have a full plan in unnecessary and China is against. place to treat all who have symptoms
The infected Belgian woman left and test positively, and we’re working the evacuation flight after its first with international partners to slow the leg to France. One of the Brits flying spread and find a vaccine.” with her was taken to a unit in Officials are trying to trace 239 people Oxford after reporting symptoms. who flew to the UK from Wuhan before
The other 10 are in Arrowe Park restrictions began. Several students from Hospital in Birkenhead, Merseyside, the Southampton University have selfisolated isolated from the original 83 after one fell ill on return from arrivals already in quarantine there. China. Two cases have been confirmed
A former WHO boss warned a in the UK and are being treated in the vaccine will come too late for the specialist infectious diseases unit at the outbreak. Prof David Heymann, Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle. who led the global response to
SARS, said: “The vaccine is a long
CRISIS Rows of beds in emergency hospital in Wuhan