Coronavirus: British Airways suspends all flights to China as killer coronavirus spreads

British Airways has suspended flights to and from mainland China amid the coronavirus outbreak.

There have been 132 fatalities linked to the virus in China while more than 5,000 have been infected.

The airline's decision comes after the Foreign Office warned against all but essential travel to the country.

There have been more than 70 tests conducted for the virus in Britain, though all have come back negative.

[MrTazboii]

Should have done this a week ago, as should all airlines

[secretbillionaire]

About time an airline company have stepped up!

[EthanKnight]

Should have done this weeks ago, suspended all flights from inflected areas, fools.

[sybylo]

All airlines should do the same. Boats and delivery from China as well. Alixpress and what not

[SHADOWNINE]

Too late to close the barn door once the horse has bolted

[althepsyphros]

Why so late? We should have quarantined the first people, problem solved. At least we should have tried. We didn't.

[gamer_mad_]

Bit late ? By the looks of things it's already here! Flights should have been grounded world wide at the start of the outbreak maybe then it wouldn't have spread so fast

[LouiseKernow]

Stable door, horse, bolted. 2000 tourists from Wuhan in circulation with no idea where they are...

[panthera]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Now the rest of the world !!!!

[michellethompson]

Just point me to the jugg and the pack-a-punch machines we good

[jordankerotwo]

The surgical masks are currently out of stock

[babtvmonalisa]

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔.... Ok... So you are stopping British Flights flying too and from But I'm still able to order my Amazon packages from China and surrounding areas 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 You people are seriously funny!!!!

[JackTheAverage]

*cue scary music*
BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID
IGNORE WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW

[shintenkai]

Seriously begs the question why havn't all airlines done this and why has it taken so long to make this decision?; I'll answer it myself: *profits*

[bigpete]

Oh dear!
Now it’s getting a bit choppy.

[eenie]

Are flights from the contaminated area being stopped too?

[BRo]

What a brilliant idea. Should’ve happened sooner.

[damian]

This is to late people were calling for this over a week ago

[plop]

Funny how the Government doesn't do anything though

[JH]

Why are politicians and company managers or ceo's, officee and all the other people who make decisions sooo slow to process everything. This should've happened from day 1 but I guess they're more interested in all the 💰🤑 they make from the Chinese booking flights to flea the country right now