UK teacher: a lot of Wuhan expats 'very scared'

A British teacher stranded in virus- plagued China said his nation's initial response to repatriate expats from the country was "disappointing" as the death toll from the infection rose above 100 in the nation. In an interview with British broadcaster Sky News on Tuesday, Joe Armitt claimed he hadn't heard anything from Britain's Foreign Commonwealth Office since the rapid spread of coronavirus earlier in the month.

Armitt also labelled the situation "scary" and said a lot of British expats were "very scared" at being stranded in China. China's death toll from the viral disease jumped to at least 106 on Tuesday as the United States and other governments prepared to fly their citizens out of Wuhan, the locked-down city at the centre of the outbreak.

The total includes the first death in Beijing, the Chinese capital, and 24 more fatalities in Hubei province, where the first illnesses from the newly identified coronavirus occurred in December.

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