Africana55 Radio 
English
Afrikaans
Albanian
Amharic
Arabic
Armenian
Azerbaijani
Basque
Belarusian
Bengali
Bosnian
Bulgarian
Catalan
Cebuano
Chichewa
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Corsican
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Esperanto
Estonian
Filipino
Finnish
French
Frisian
Galician
Georgian
German
Greek
Gujarati
Haitian Creole
Hausa
Hawaiian
Hebrew
Hindi
Hmong
Hungarian
Icelandic
Igbo
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Javanese
Kannada
Kazakh
Khmer
Korean
Kurdish (Kurmanji)
Kyrgyz
Lao
Latin
Latvian
Lithuanian
Luxembourgish
Macedonian
Malagasy
Malay
Malayalam
Maltese
Maori
Marathi
Mongolian
Myanmar (Burmese)
Nepali
Norwegian
Pashto
Persian
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi
Romanian
Russian
Samoan
Scottish Gaelic
Serbian
Sesotho
Shona
Sindhi
Sinhala
Slovak
Slovenian
Somali
Spanish
Sudanese
Swahili
Swedish
Tajik
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbek
Vietnamese
Welsh
Xhosa
Yiddish
Yoruba
Zulu
This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
Virgin Atlantic has suspended flights to China amid the deadly coronavirus outbreak that has so far killed 213 people.
The UK carrier will fly for the last time from London to Shanghai today, 31 January, and the inbound service will return on Saturday 1 February.
Virgin’s decision follows British Airways, which grounded all China flights a few days ago.
The UK flag carrier’s daily services to Shanghai and Beijing have been cancelled until 29 February.
The decision comes as the UK foreign office has advised against all but essential travel to China as the deadly coronavirus sweeps across the country.
Created with Sketch.
Created with Sketch.
1/75
People hoping to buy face masks crowd outside a medical supply shop that was raided by police for allegedly hoarding and overpricing the masks, as public fear over China's Wuhan Coronavirus grow in Manila, Philippines. The Philippine government has been heavily criticized after failing to immediately implement travel restrictions from China, the source of a deadly coronavirus that has now killed hundreds and infected thousands more
Getty
2/75
Medical staff members wearing protective clothing to help stop the spread of a deadly virus which began in the city of Wuhan, arrive with a patient at the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital. The Chinese army deployed medical specialists to the epicentre of the spiralling viral outbreak that has killed and spread around the world
AFP via Getty
3/75 A young child wears a protective mask and is covered in plastic while waiting to check in to a flight at Beijing Capital Airport
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday declared the coronavirus a public health emergency of international concern
Getty
4/75
A health worker checks the temperature of a woman entering a subway station in Beijing
Getty
5/75
Ambulance crews arrive at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, as it prepares for a return flight from Wuhan, China. Eighty-three Britons and 27 foreign nationals who were trapped in Wuhan are being flown back to the UK
Tom Maddick / SWNS
6/75
A woman carries a baby wearing a protective mask as they exit the arrival hall at Hong Kong High Speed Rail Station
Getty
7/75
Camp beds at a Medical Assessment Center set up at the airport in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on the eve of the arrival of German citizens evacuated from Wuhan
AFP via Getty
8/75
Funeral parlour staff members in protective suits help a colleague with disinfection after they transferred a body at a hospital in Wuhan
Reuters
9/75
Muslims wearing masks pray for the victims of coronavirus at a mosque in Ahmedabad, India
Reuters
10/75
Medical officials waiting for people who wants to check the novel coronavirus at Myeongdong shopping district
Getty
11/75
Children wear plastic bottles as makeshift homemade protection and protective masks while waiting to check in to a flight at Beijing Capital Airport
Getty
12/75
A patient assisted by medical staff gets off an ambulance in Wuhan
AFP/Getty
13/75
People line up to buy face masks from a medical supply company in Nanning, southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Countries began evacuating their citizens from the Chinese city hardest-hit by a new virus that has now infected more people in China than were sickened in the country by SARS
Chinatopix via AP
14/75
Millions spent their normally festive Lunar New Year holiday under lockdown
Getty
15/75
Children with face masks wash their hands before prayer at Erawan shrine in Bangkok. Thailand has detected eight Coronavirus cases so far
AFP via Getty
16/75 An Indonesian health officer points at the screen of a thermal scanner for passengers
China confirmed that the deadly Wuhan coronavirus virus can be transmitted between humans
AFP via Getty
17/75
Hospital workers wearing protective eyewear and masks examine an Indonesian student who returned from China in quarantine at a hospital in Banda Aceh
AFP via Getty Images
18/75
Ambulance staff dispose of an outfit at the hospital in Wuhan
EPA
19/75
A person checks the temperature of a passenger to help stop the spread of a deadly virus as he arrives at the Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II International airport in Palembang
AFP via Getty
20/75
Nepali students, wearing face masks, attend a class at Matribhumi School in Bhaktapur, on the outskirts of Kathmandu
AFP via Getty Images
21/75
Medical staff at the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital
AFP via Getty
22/75
Two Buddhist monks wear face masks while walking along a street in Yangon
AFP via Getty Images
23/75
Staff disinfecting a residential area in Ruichang, part of Jiujiang in China's central Jiangxi province
AFP via Getty
24/75
Workers are seen at the construction site of a new hospital being built to treat patients from a deadly virus outbreak in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on January 27, 2020. - China is rushing to build a new hospital in a staggering 10 days to treat patients at the epicentre of a deadly virus outbreak that has stricken thousands of people, state media reported on January 24. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP) (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images) HECTOR RETAMAL
AFP via Getty
25/75
Vapor blurs the goggles of an ambulance driver while they work, in Wuhan
EPA
26/75
Workers producing facemasks at a factory in Yangzhou
AFP via Getty
27/75
Medical staff getting on an ambulance in Wuhan
AFP via Getty
28/75
A vendor of traditional masks wears a facial mask at his shop in Thamel
EPA
29/75
An airport official checks the temperature of a passenger upon his arrival at the Bacha Khan International Airport in Peshawar
AFP via Getty
30/75
Medical staff members arrive with a patient at the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital
AFP via Getty
31/75
An ambulance driver talking with medical staff in Wuhan
AFP via Getty
32/75 Wuhan Hygiene Emergency Response Team leave the closed Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market
The new coronavirus appears to have its origins in a seafood market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, a popular transport hub
AFP via Getty
33/75
Workers produce protective suits at a factory in Nantong
AFP via Getty
34/75
Passengers scanned by thermal imaging for body temperature as they go through health measures and procedures after they landed at Rome's Fiumicino airport on a southern airlines flight from Wuhan
Aeroporto Di Roma/AFP via Getty
35/75
A Thai royal guard wears a mask while on duty at the Grand Palace in Bangkok
EPA
36/75
A man wearing a face mask rides a nearly empty subway train in Beijing
AP
37/75
Medical staff members at the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital
AFP via Getty
38/75
A shopper wearing goggles with a face mask and gloves uses a self checkout machine at a supermarket in Wuhan
AP
39/75
Medical staff transfer patients to Jinyintan hospital
EPA
40/75
Members of the Italian Red Cross putting on protective gear, getting ready to give health checks to passengers that landed at Rome's Fiumicino airport on a southern airlines flight from Wuhan
Aeroporto Di Roma/AFP via Getty
41/75
A member of the Hong Kong government's Civil Aid Service gestures at the entrance to the Lady MacLehose Holiday Village which is being used as one of two quarantine centres for people who have been in close proximity with suspected cases of a SARS-type virus. Hong Kong will turn two holiday camps, including a former military barracks, into quarantine zones for people who may have come into contact with carriers of the Wuhan virus, officials announced
AFP via Getty Images
42/75
Medical staff wearing protective suits at the Zhongnan hospital in Wuhan
STR/AFP via Getty
43/75
A Malaysia Health official checks passengers going through a thermal scanner upon their arrival at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport
EPA
44/75 Staff disinfecting Yingtan North Railway Station, China
China banned trains and planes from leaving the major city at the centre of a virus outbreak on January 23, seeking to seal off its 11 million people to contain the contagious disease that has claimed lives and spread to other countries
AFP via Getty
45/75
A passenger walks past a quarantine control station at Narita airport, Japan
EPA
46/75
Patients queue up to seek treatment in Wuhan Tongji Hospital Fever Clinic, in Wuhan
EPA
47/75
Quarantine workers spray disinfectant at Incheon International Airport, South Korea
EPA
48/75
A member of staff checks the temperature of a guest entering the casino of the New Orient Landmark hotel in Macau, after it reported its first case of the new SARS-like virus
AFP via Getty
49/75 Medical staff transfer patients to Jin Yintan hospital
Little is known about the new disease which, if confirmed, would be only the seventh coronavirus known to science that can infect humans
Getty
50/75
Members of the Three Gorges Medical Laboratory offering free masks to the public in Yichang, China
AFP via Getty
51/75
Gabriel Leung, right, chair professor of public health medicine at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong, speaks about the extent of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak in China
AFP via Getty
52/75
Members of staff of the Wuhan Hygiene Emergency Response Team conducting searches on the closed Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market
AFP via Getty
53/75 A quarantine officer at Incheon International Airport, South Korea, uses an electronic thermometer to check the temperature of passengers arriving by plane from Wuhan
The virus causes symptoms of viral pneumonia, and has already led to several deaths
EPA
54/75
A screen shows cancelled flights at Tianhe airport in Wuhan
AFP via Getty
55/75
Medical staff transfer patients to Jinyintan hospital
EPA
56/75
Health officials hand out information about the current coronavirus at Kuala Lumpur International Airport
AP
57/75
A store owner argues with security guards as he attempts to enter the closed Huanan wholesale seafood market
AFP via Getty
58/75
Workers producing facemasks at a factory in Handan, China's northern Hebei province
AFP via Getty
59/75
Medical staff and security personnel stop patients' family members from being too close to the Jinyintan hospital
Reuters
60/75
maya-goodfellowAn airport staff member uses a temperature gun to check people leaving Wuhan Tianhe International Airport
AP
61/75
A rescue worker walks past a notice about new coronavirus that has broken out in China
Reuters
62/75
Health officials wear face masks at an inspection site at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang
AP
63/75
Medical staff members carry a patient into the Jinyintan hospital
AFP via Getty
64/75
A staff member checks body temperature of a child after a train from Wuhan arrived at Hangzhou Railway Station in Hangzhou
AFP via Getty Images
65/75
A quarantine station measures passenger body temperatures at Narita Airport
JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty
66/75
Passengers walk past a notice displayed near a quarantine control station at Narita airport
EPA
67/75
Passengers walk past a poster alerting on coronavirus screening ahead upon their arrival at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport
EPA
68/75
An employee sprays disinfectant on a train, as a precaution against coronavirus, at Suseo Station in Seoul
EPA
69/75
Kazakh sanitary-epidemiological service worker uses a thermal scanner to detect travellers from China who may have symptoms possibly connected with the previously unknown coronavirus, at Almaty International Airport, Kazakhstan
Reuters
70/75
Pharmacist Liu Zhuzhen stands near a sign reading "face masks are sold out" at her pharmacy in Shanghai
AP
71/75
The Wuhan Medical Treatment Center,
EPA
72/75
A worker in a protective suit at the closed seafood market in Wuhan
Reuters
73/75
Passengers wear protective face masks at the departure hall of a high speed train station in Hong Kong
AP
74/75
A notice for passengers from Wuhan
Getty
75/75
A man wears a mask while riding on mobike past the closed Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market
Getty
1/75
People hoping to buy face masks crowd outside a medical supply shop that was raided by police for allegedly hoarding and overpricing the masks, as public fear over China's Wuhan Coronavirus grow in Manila, Philippines. The Philippine government has been heavily criticized after failing to immediately implement travel restrictions from China, the source of a deadly coronavirus that has now killed hundreds and infected thousands more
Getty
2/75
Medical staff members wearing protective clothing to help stop the spread of a deadly virus which began in the city of Wuhan, arrive with a patient at the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital. The Chinese army deployed medical specialists to the epicentre of the spiralling viral outbreak that has killed and spread around the world
AFP via Getty
3/75 A young child wears a protective mask and is covered in plastic while waiting to check in to a flight at Beijing Capital Airport
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday declared the coronavirus a public health emergency of international concern
Getty
4/75
A health worker checks the temperature of a woman entering a subway station in Beijing
Getty
5/75
Ambulance crews arrive at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, as it prepares for a return flight from Wuhan, China. Eighty-three Britons and 27 foreign nationals who were trapped in Wuhan are being flown back to the UK
Tom Maddick / SWNS
6/75
A woman carries a baby wearing a protective mask as they exit the arrival hall at Hong Kong High Speed Rail Station
Getty
7/75
Camp beds at a Medical Assessment Center set up at the airport in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on the eve of the arrival of German citizens evacuated from Wuhan
AFP via Getty
8/75
Funeral parlour staff members in protective suits help a colleague with disinfection after they transferred a body at a hospital in Wuhan
Reuters
9/75
Muslims wearing masks pray for the victims of coronavirus at a mosque in Ahmedabad, India
Reuters
10/75
Medical officials waiting for people who wants to check the novel coronavirus at Myeongdong shopping district
Getty
11/75
Children wear plastic bottles as makeshift homemade protection and protective masks while waiting to check in to a flight at Beijing Capital Airport
Getty
12/75
A patient assisted by medical staff gets off an ambulance in Wuhan
AFP/Getty
13/75
People line up to buy face masks from a medical supply company in Nanning, southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Countries began evacuating their citizens from the Chinese city hardest-hit by a new virus that has now infected more people in China than were sickened in the country by SARS
Chinatopix via AP
14/75
Millions spent their normally festive Lunar New Year holiday under lockdown
Getty
15/75
Children with face masks wash their hands before prayer at Erawan shrine in Bangkok. Thailand has detected eight Coronavirus cases so far
AFP via Getty
16/75 An Indonesian health officer points at the screen of a thermal scanner for passengers
China confirmed that the deadly Wuhan coronavirus virus can be transmitted between humans
AFP via Getty
17/75
Hospital workers wearing protective eyewear and masks examine an Indonesian student who returned from China in quarantine at a hospital in Banda Aceh
AFP via Getty Images
18/75
Ambulance staff dispose of an outfit at the hospital in Wuhan
EPA
19/75
A person checks the temperature of a passenger to help stop the spread of a deadly virus as he arrives at the Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II International airport in Palembang
AFP via Getty
20/75
Nepali students, wearing face masks, attend a class at Matribhumi School in Bhaktapur, on the outskirts of Kathmandu
AFP via Getty Images
21/75
Medical staff at the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital
AFP via Getty
22/75
Two Buddhist monks wear face masks while walking along a street in Yangon
AFP via Getty Images
23/75
Staff disinfecting a residential area in Ruichang, part of Jiujiang in China's central Jiangxi province
AFP via Getty
24/75
Workers are seen at the construction site of a new hospital being built to treat patients from a deadly virus outbreak in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on January 27, 2020. - China is rushing to build a new hospital in a staggering 10 days to treat patients at the epicentre of a deadly virus outbreak that has stricken thousands of people, state media reported on January 24. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP) (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images) HECTOR RETAMAL
AFP via Getty
25/75
Vapor blurs the goggles of an ambulance driver while they work, in Wuhan
EPA
26/75
Workers producing facemasks at a factory in Yangzhou
AFP via Getty
27/75
Medical staff getting on an ambulance in Wuhan
AFP via Getty
28/75
A vendor of traditional masks wears a facial mask at his shop in Thamel
EPA
29/75
An airport official checks the temperature of a passenger upon his arrival at the Bacha Khan International Airport in Peshawar
AFP via Getty
30/75
Medical staff members arrive with a patient at the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital
AFP via Getty
31/75
An ambulance driver talking with medical staff in Wuhan
AFP via Getty
32/75 Wuhan Hygiene Emergency Response Team leave the closed Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market
The new coronavirus appears to have its origins in a seafood market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, a popular transport hub
AFP via Getty
33/75
Workers produce protective suits at a factory in Nantong
AFP via Getty
34/75
Passengers scanned by thermal imaging for body temperature as they go through health measures and procedures after they landed at Rome's Fiumicino airport on a southern airlines flight from Wuhan
Aeroporto Di Roma/AFP via Getty
35/75
A Thai royal guard wears a mask while on duty at the Grand Palace in Bangkok
EPA
36/75
A man wearing a face mask rides a nearly empty subway train in Beijing
AP
37/75
Medical staff members at the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital
AFP via Getty
38/75
A shopper wearing goggles with a face mask and gloves uses a self checkout machine at a supermarket in Wuhan
AP
39/75
Medical staff transfer patients to Jinyintan hospital
EPA
40/75
Members of the Italian Red Cross putting on protective gear, getting ready to give health checks to passengers that landed at Rome's Fiumicino airport on a southern airlines flight from Wuhan
Aeroporto Di Roma/AFP via Getty
41/75
A member of the Hong Kong government's Civil Aid Service gestures at the entrance to the Lady MacLehose Holiday Village which is being used as one of two quarantine centres for people who have been in close proximity with suspected cases of a SARS-type virus. Hong Kong will turn two holiday camps, including a former military barracks, into quarantine zones for people who may have come into contact with carriers of the Wuhan virus, officials announced
AFP via Getty Images
42/75
Medical staff wearing protective suits at the Zhongnan hospital in Wuhan
STR/AFP via Getty
43/75
A Malaysia Health official checks passengers going through a thermal scanner upon their arrival at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport
EPA
44/75 Staff disinfecting Yingtan North Railway Station, China
China banned trains and planes from leaving the major city at the centre of a virus outbreak on January 23, seeking to seal off its 11 million people to contain the contagious disease that has claimed lives and spread to other countries
AFP via Getty
45/75
A passenger walks past a quarantine control station at Narita airport, Japan
EPA
46/75
Patients queue up to seek treatment in Wuhan Tongji Hospital Fever Clinic, in Wuhan
EPA
47/75
Quarantine workers spray disinfectant at Incheon International Airport, South Korea
EPA
48/75
A member of staff checks the temperature of a guest entering the casino of the New Orient Landmark hotel in Macau, after it reported its first case of the new SARS-like virus
AFP via Getty
49/75 Medical staff transfer patients to Jin Yintan hospital
Little is known about the new disease which, if confirmed, would be only the seventh coronavirus known to science that can infect humans
Getty
50/75
Members of the Three Gorges Medical Laboratory offering free masks to the public in Yichang, China
AFP via Getty
51/75
Gabriel Leung, right, chair professor of public health medicine at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong, speaks about the extent of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak in China
AFP via Getty
52/75
Members of staff of the Wuhan Hygiene Emergency Response Team conducting searches on the closed Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market
AFP via Getty
53/75 A quarantine officer at Incheon International Airport, South Korea, uses an electronic thermometer to check the temperature of passengers arriving by plane from Wuhan
The virus causes symptoms of viral pneumonia, and has already led to several deaths
EPA
54/75
A screen shows cancelled flights at Tianhe airport in Wuhan
AFP via Getty
55/75
Medical staff transfer patients to Jinyintan hospital
EPA
56/75
Health officials hand out information about the current coronavirus at Kuala Lumpur International Airport
AP
57/75
A store owner argues with security guards as he attempts to enter the closed Huanan wholesale seafood market
AFP via Getty
58/75
Workers producing facemasks at a factory in Handan, China's northern Hebei province
AFP via Getty
59/75
Medical staff and security personnel stop patients' family members from being too close to the Jinyintan hospital
Reuters
60/75
maya-goodfellowAn airport staff member uses a temperature gun to check people leaving Wuhan Tianhe International Airport
AP
61/75
A rescue worker walks past a notice about new coronavirus that has broken out in China
Reuters
62/75
Health officials wear face masks at an inspection site at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang
AP
63/75
Medical staff members carry a patient into the Jinyintan hospital
AFP via Getty
64/75
A staff member checks body temperature of a child after a train from Wuhan arrived at Hangzhou Railway Station in Hangzhou
AFP via Getty Images
65/75
A quarantine station measures passenger body temperatures at Narita Airport
JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty
66/75
Passengers walk past a notice displayed near a quarantine control station at Narita airport
EPA
67/75
Passengers walk past a poster alerting on coronavirus screening ahead upon their arrival at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport
EPA
68/75
An employee sprays disinfectant on a train, as a precaution against coronavirus, at Suseo Station in Seoul
EPA
69/75
Kazakh sanitary-epidemiological service worker uses a thermal scanner to detect travellers from China who may have symptoms possibly connected with the previously unknown coronavirus, at Almaty International Airport, Kazakhstan
Reuters
70/75
Pharmacist Liu Zhuzhen stands near a sign reading "face masks are sold out" at her pharmacy in Shanghai
AP
71/75
The Wuhan Medical Treatment Center,
EPA
72/75
A worker in a protective suit at the closed seafood market in Wuhan
Reuters
73/75
Passengers wear protective face masks at the departure hall of a high speed train station in Hong Kong
AP
74/75
A notice for passengers from Wuhan
Getty
75/75
A man wears a mask while riding on mobike past the closed Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market
Getty
Flights to Hong Kong on both Virgin and British Airways are unaffected.
Elsewhere, a rash of other global airlines continue to slash flights to mainland China amid weak demand, including KLM, Air France, Lufthansa, SAS, Iberia, Air Canada, Cathay Pacific and United.
Japanese carrier ANA said its bookings for outbound China flights had halved in February compared to last year as the coronavirus takes hold.
Most airlines are offering passengers the opportunity to switch their flights to an alternative date.
Other airlines who are still flying to mainland China have announced various measures to try to stop the spread of the virus.
Korean Air said it would use disposable cutlery onboard flights to mainland China, which would then be disposed of in sealed bags. Blankets and pillows would not be provided. In addition, cabin crew would wear masks and plastic gloves on all routes.
Elsewhere, Hong Kong-based carrier Cathay Pacific said pillows, blankets and magazines would not be offered to passengers from 30 January onwards.