FIVE BRITS CATCH VIRUS ON SKI TRIP
Lad of 9 among victims in France
MANCHESTER got a Manhattan-style makeover for a special royal visitor yesterday.
A fake subway station and US cars were wheeled into the chilly Northern Quarter for filming The Crown.
Emma Corrin, 24, is playing Princess Di who visited the homeless in New York in 1989 on her first solo trip. The shoulder pads were out – and winter jackets.
FIVE Brits staying in a French ski chalet were in quarantine last night after contracting the deadly coronavirus.
Medics fear the group, including a boy of nine, were infected by a UK passport holder who visited the area on January 24 after attending a business event in Singapore.
The unnamed, middle-aged man is thought to have come into contact with 10 other Brits in the Alpine resort of Contamines-montjoie.
All 11 are in isolation and sources said two other British children are being examined. It came as the death toll from the virus hit 724 worldwide – with 86 dying in China in a single day. More than 34,500 are now affected.
French officials said the Contaminesmontjoie victims were in hospitals in Lyon, Saint-etienne and Grenoble. Health Minister Agnes Buzyn said they were “stable”.
A source in Paris added: “They were in a chalet when some complained of feeling unwell. Five have coronavirus, including a child.”
The man who travelled from Singapore had been at a business event at the Grand Hyatt hotel. Returning to Britain on January 28, he developed flu-like symptoms and went to A&E in Brighton on February 1. A seventh Brit, Alan Steele, of Wolverhampton, was diagnosed on the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan.
The two cases confirmed in the UK so far, in York, are Chinese nationals. Last night, the Government faced calls to freeze travel from China after 150 Brits are airlifted from the outbreak epicentre of Wuhan today.