New Name For Airport Hotel ...The Corona Inn

   The hotel was seen being boarded up on Thursday, February 27

The Holiday Inn in Harlington, near Heathrow Airport, has been designated a quarantine site for patients who suspect they may have coronavirus. 

On Thursday (February 27) an eyewitness said that new wooden hoardings, like those around construction sites, were being installed and that security officers were being placed at the hotel on Bath Road.

They also reported seeing ambulances at the hotel, which is closed to the public, and security officers were turning cars away at the entrance.

A spokesperson for the InterContinental Hotel Group said the hotel had been block booked out but could not comment further, and The Department of Health and Social Care declined to comment.

However, this morning a member of staff on the reception desk said "it's a non-operational hotel and not open to the public".

When asked for details on why he said: "As the media has publicised, I'm sure you know why."

The branch of the popular hotel chain closed to the public and staff were reportedly told it would not re-open for bookings until March at the earliest.

GPs across London are on high alert for cases appearing in the capital and patients are being asked to not go to the doctors but instead call 111.

A number of schools have sent pupils and staff home after they returned from holidays to Italy and reported feeling unwell.