Coronavirus advice: Restricting travel 'pointless' when 'epidemic is everywhere'

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Restricting travel for Britons and UK visitors to prevent the spread of coronavirus would be pointless, a health chief has suggested.

The chief scientific adviser to the Government, Sir Patrick Vallance, said it would be too late, adding: “Once the epidemic is everywhere, then actually restricting travel makes no difference at all. “At the moment we are certainly not recommending any change to behaviours in relation to that. “And if it grows in the UK, then of course it doesn’t really make more sense to say that you’re at more risk somewhere else than you are here.” But Professor Chris Whitty, England’s chief medical officer, added: “If you happen to be in a place with a very weak health service at the peak of their epidemic, weaker than