Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford on 30 January (HL734), why those arriving in the UK on commercial flights from Wuhan after the Government had received reports of coronavirus received no medical intervention when those evacuated on the flight from Wuhan organised by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office are to be quarantined for 14 days.

The supported isolation model used following the flight from Wuhan organised by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on 31 January and the subsequent flight on 2 February was undertaken as a highly precautionary measure. Direct flights from Wuhan ceased on 24 January. On 30 January the World Health Organization declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern and the risk associated with return from the epicentre of the outbreak had increased.

We are asking anyone in the United Kingdom who has returned from Hubei Province in the last 14 days to self-isolate, to stay indoors and avoid contact with other people.