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Children returning from holidays in northern Italy have been sent home from school after new government health advice on the coronavirus.
Four schools in England have shut completely for a “deep clean” after pupils came back from skiing trips.
The Foreign Office has now updated its travel advice, warning against all but essential travel to 11 quarantined towns in Italy.
The government said anyone returning from those towns must self-isolate.
And those who have travelled north of Pisa are asked to stay at home for 14 days if they develop flu-like symptoms.
Italy has put the 11 towns in Lombardy and Veneto – areas which attract tourists for their ski resorts – into lockdown.
Police are manning checkpoints around the towns in quarantine after 11 people died.
Some travellers suggested UK authorities were too slow to respond to the outbreak in Italy, where the number of confirmed cases spiked over four days.
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Several schools in England and Northern Ireland have advised staff and students to stay at home after they returned from skiing trips in northern Italy.
St Christopher’s C of E High School in Accrington told parents it would be closed on Wednesday as a precautionary measure after some pupils returning from Pila in the Italian Alps said they felt unwell.
Four schools have shut completely for a week while they carry out a “deep clean”, after students and teachers returned from skiing trips over February half term.
Gedney Church End and Lutton St Nicholas primary schools in the Spalding area in Lincolnshire have closed as a precautionary measure.
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Trinity Catholic College in Middlesbrough said “a small number of pupils and staff began showing mild flu-like symptoms”.
Students would be sent work to do at home, the school added.
And Cransley School, a private school in Cheshire, also closed after 29 pupils and five members of staff returned from Bormio, a Lombardy ski resort.
In an email to parents, headmaster Richard Pollock said the decision was going further than the advice from Public Health England “to completely minimise” the potential spread of infection.
‘Still visiting landmarks’
Guru Singh said he and his partner developed flu-like symptoms after returning from Milan and Venice on Friday.
Having contacted the NHS, they are now being tested at a hospital in north-west London.
“I’m feeling a bit apprehensive, a bit scared,” he told the BBC. “They said we fit the criteria to get tested.”
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Stephen Paskins, who is due to fly back to Bristol from Venice on Wednesday, told the BBC there were fewer tourists in the city, more police and more people wearing face masks.
“The only way to get about is via public transport so keeping away from people is impossible. Everyone is still visiting the landmarks even though you can’t enter,” he said.
Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow said he has self-isolated himself as a precaution after visiting Iran to cover the election last week – but he does not have any symptoms.
Meanwhile, a hotel in Tenerife has been locked down with hundreds of guests inside after a visiting Italian doctor tested positive for the coronavirus.
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