Dominic Raab confirms China has given permission for takeoff at 5am local time
Hundreds of Britons stranded in the Chinese region at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak will be flown home early on Friday morning, the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, has confirmed.
A plane was due to leave locked-down Wuhan on Thursday morning, evacuating about 200 Britons to the UK, where they would be quarantined for two weeks at a secure NHS facility.
