We are about to close this live blog on the coronavirus. You can follow our coverage on our new blog which you can find here . In the mean time, here is a summary of what we know so far.

I haven’t yet got any information as to whether that plane has left Wuhan as there is sometimes a lag in this being uploaded. We know that passengers were ready to board

According to Flightradar24, a Wamos air 747 flew from Hanoi to Wuhan on 31 January, landing in Wuhan at 04.45 local time. We know from the video we posted a short time ago that UK citizens were preparing to board a Wamos air plane.

The UK evacuation of its citizens out of Wuhan is underway. They are understood to be on Wamos Air 747.

On Thursday, China’s Football Association cancelled all domestic games at all levels, in a response to the coronavirus. China’s national women’s team are in Australia to play Olympic qualifiers, but have been in quarantine in Brisbane as a result of the virus. Football Federation Australia on Friday confirmed the team will begin their qualifying tournament against Taiwan in Sydney on 6 February and will play the Australian team on 12 February. You can read the full story here.

Poorer nations suffer most from global health crises, says Dr Claude Posala, an eye surgeon in Solomon Islands. His country has recently suffered a terrible measles outbreak. He says Pacific nations have watched news out of Wuhan in panic and need help to combat it.

The Reuters news agency is reporting that China’s Shandong province has asked companies not to resume working before 10 February to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. Reuters is quoting the state news agency Xinhua.

Confirmed cases inside China are 9,096 . That’s up from the figure quoted at around this time yesterday of 7,711. It makes it an 18% rise in confirmed infections over the 24-hour period.

The total death toll in China now stands at 213. That’s up from 170 announced at this time yesterday. That’s an increase of 25%, which is slightly down on yesterday’s increase (29%).

Let’s take a look at the latest figures. Each morning in China the National Health Commission provides updates.

On Thursday Air Canada suspended all flights to and from China until the end of February. It followed Canada’ recommendation to avoid all non-essential travel to China.

It also follows British Airways’ decision to suspend flights to and from China, which is in place until at least Monday.

The airline said in a statement it would suspend its daily operations between the UK and Shanghai for two weeks from Saturday, PA said.

Press Association is reporting that Virgin Atlantic has suspended its flights between Britain and China due to fears about the spread of the coronavirus.

“We would have had a number of planes that have come in from mainland China over the last 1 days. Where are all those people?,” Palaszczuk asks.

“I’m calling on the Commonwealth (national government) to working a spirit of national co-operation, to provide information to the states so we can help try to contain this virus,” she says.

An obviously irritated Palaszczuk again makes the point that the national government should be co-ordinating the response.

“There is no reason why the Federal government can’t be on a phone hook-up today or over this weekend, talking to all of the (state) Premiers giving them the most up to date information. This is a serious national issue,” Palaszczuk said.

We are now hearing from the premier of the state of Queensland, Annastacia Palaszczuk, who is calling for national co-ordination of the response to the virus. Australia is a federal system made up of states and territories and so far each state seems to have had a slightly different response to the virus.

Coronavirus has been declared notifiable disease in Queensland, Australia

We’re just hearing a news conference in Queensland that as of Thursday, coronavirus has been declared notifiable disease.

“That means on clinical suspicion, any doctor or hospital that sees a patient that they think might have this novel coronavirus is obliged to let me know. They let my staff know,” says Queensland’s chief medical officer, Dr Jeanette Young.

As I wrote in the blog a short time ago, Queensland authorities have been trying to track down passengers on a plane that flew from Melbourne to the Gold Coast on 27 January, as there was a tourist from Wuhan onboard who was later diagnoses with coronavirus. He was travelling with a party of eight other people.



“We are contact tracing of course the people immediately adjacent to these people on the plane, on that Tiger flight and then we’re giving information to everyone else who was on the plane and the Tiger people have been extremely supportive and cooperative, so that we could do that, plus we need to go through in detail everyone who’s been at the hotel these people were staying at,” Young said.

Updated at 13.24 EDT