30 Jan, 2020 @ 06:03
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Iberia suspends all flights between Spain and China in response to deadly Coronavirus outbreak

IBERIA has suspended all flights to Shanghai in a response to the deadly Coronavirus outbreak.

It is the only destination the British-Spanish airline flies to in China.

The suspension comes after the World Health Organisation labelled the flu-like virus as ‘very high risk’ in China, where the virus broke out, in Wuhan.

The flights will be stopped from this Friday, when the next flight was planned.

No flights to Shanghai will take off from Spain in February.

Customers with tickets have been offered refunds or the possibility to change their fly date.

Iberia is contacting other airlines to try and help passengers who must return to Shanghai to work or live.

The company said it will be constantly monitoring the situation and will extend the suspension if possible.

It added that the safety of its employees and passengers were paramount.

It comes as British Airways, owned by the same parent company, has also cancelled all flights to and from China.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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