Coronavirus panic as medics in hazmat suits board flight landing in Dublin from Russia after passenger taken ill

MEDICS in hazmat suits boarded a plane that landed in Dublin last night after a passenger on board displayed potential symptoms of coronavirus.

A passenger travelling on the Aeroflot flight from Moscow was taken off the plane when it landed at .

Paramedics boarded the flight and spoke to the man, who had originally travelled from China, and he was taken to an ambulance on the tarmac.

The rest of the passengers were held on the plane for nearly two hours following the man's removal.

It's understood passengers were given travel advice sheets on board the plane.

It comes as 83 Britons evacuated from China on Friday began two weeks in quarantine.

The coronavirus has killed 294 so far and there are more than 12,000 cases confirmed globally.

In an update on their site on January 31, Dublin Airport confirmed the Health Protection Surveillance Centre said "given there are no currently no direct flights to Dublin Airport from China or Hong Kong, there is no requirement for entry screening at Dublin Airport".

It comes after two people were confirmed to have been struck down with the killer bug at a York hotel.

A desperate hunt is underway on to find 438 people who flew in to the UK from coronavirus epicentre Wuhan before travel was locked down.

Authorities are now desperately scrambling to contain the spiralling epidemic with fears almost 2,000 could be infected in the country.

The Department of Health confirmed they still need to check more than 400 people who arrived on direct flights from Wuhan earlier this month.

Yesterday they said 162 of the 1,466 people have already left the UK, while 760 are now outside of the bug's two-week incubation period.