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Airport bosses accused of failing to provide workers with protection from coronavirus
A plane carrying British nationals from the coronavirus-hit city of Wuhan in China, arrives at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire

AIRPORT bosses were accused of failing to provide workers with sufficient protection from the coronavirus today as the first two British cases were confirmed.

The potentially deadly respiratory virus has spread from Wuhan in China to 23 other countries, including England where two victims from the same family have been infected.

Both are in a specialist hospital isolation unit in Newcastle.

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