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A second set of coronavirus evacuees from the Chinese city of Wuhan are set to arrive in Arrowe Park Hospital to be quarantined tomorrow.

A leaked email from chief executive Janelle Holmes to staff appears to confirm a number of British nationals, who missed the first flight on Thursday, will be arriving on Sunday.

The email states the same procedures will be followed and reassures staff that none of the group are showing any symptoms for the respiratory disease, which has killed around 213 people in China.

In the email, Ms Holmes writes: "Dear colleagues, I wanted you to be amongst the first to know that tomorrow morning we will be receiving an additional group of citizens from Wuhan.

"We were asked to accommodate a small number of UK citizens who did not make the flight on Thursday from China with the last group.

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"The same safe-guarding arrangements and support are being put in place to get them here that were used for the first group of guests.

"None of this group has any symptoms. There will be further screening by Public Health England (PHE) when they land in the UK."

The flight carrying the first tranche of 83 evacuees landed in RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, on Thursday before the group were transported under police escort to Birkenhead on a convoy of coaches.

The group are being quarantined for 14 days in a staff accommodation block which remains under police guard.

Today the Department of Health and Social Care confirmed that so far none of the initial 83 patients are showing signs of the virus, which is believed to have passed into humans from an animal at a livestock market in Wuhan.

There have been reports of patients being escorted into the Royal Liverpool Hospital by staff wearing hazmat suits, but so far the only confirmed cases remain the two being treated in Newcastle.

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Ms Holmes continues in her email: "We will continue to work with national partners to ensure that there is no disruption to the day-to-day working of the organisation.

"I would like to re-iterate that all services within our hospital will continue to run as usual... staff working in the hospital will not be in contact with the people in isolation. "

"Finally I would like to thank all my colleague for the tremendous amount of hard work over the past couple of days and for the compassion and concern you have continue to show towards our guests."

A spokesman for the Department of Health and Social Care said it was unable to comment at this stage.