Britons in Wuhan miss evacuation flight after ‘confusing messages’
Flight half full due to lack of clarity over who could fly and how to reach airport amid lockdown
Britons still stranded in the Chinese city at the centre of the deadly coronavirus outbreak have said confusing messages from officials contributed to them missing an evacuation flight home.
Downing Street said on Thursday that up to 200 people would be on the chartered flight, but when it left Wuhan at 9.45am on Friday only 83 British people and 27 foreign nationals were onboard. It landed at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire at 1330 local time.