BORDER Force agents and airlines have teamed up with health officials to try and find around 2000 people who have recently travelled to the UK from Wuhan, the city at the centre of the deadly coronavirus outbreak.
The number of people tested for coronavirus in the UK has passed 30, but there are still no confirmed cases, the Government has said.
As of Saturday afternoon, 31 people across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have been tested for the deadly flu-like virus, however, all tests have come back negative, according to the Department of Health (DoH).
This includes the five people who were suspected of having coronavirus in Scotland.
The UK's Department of Health (DoH) confirmed it was trying to find "as many passengers as we can" who made the trip in the last two weeks in order to check on their wellbeing.
DoH also confirmed tests on a patient in Northern Ireland have been found negative for coronavirus.
England's Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty said the original 14 people were given the all-clear on Thursday, but more were being checked over.
Three cases were confirmed in Europe yesterday as the illness reached France.
Whitty said there was a "fair chance" cases will emerge in Britain as the overall number reported around the world climbed to more than 1200, including 41 deaths, all in China.
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All 14 people tested in the UK are thought to have visited Wuhan, the Chinese city where the outbreak originated.
Four out of five patients tested in Scotland were from China, Downing Street said.
China has expanded its lockdown against the virus to 36 million people and rushed to build a prefabricated hospital for victims as the outbreak cast a pall over Lunar New Year, the country's biggest holiday.
Authorities in Beijing and other cities cancelled many public celebrations and other events marking the event, which falls on Saturday.
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French health minister Agnes Buzyn said that all three of the people who tested positive for the virus in her country had travelled to China and two were from the same family.
And the United States reported its second case, involving a Chicago woman in her 60s who was taken to hospital after returning from China but is reported to be doing well.
Australia also confirmed its first case in the state of Victoria, involving a visitor from China, a man in his 50s, who was said to be in a stable condition.
In China, an unprecedented lockdown keeping people from travelling was expanded to more than 50 million residents.
Symptoms of coronavirus include fever, sneezing, coughing and shortness of breath.
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