A hospital that has quarantined Britons who fled on a coronavirus rescue flight will utilise a elaborate secret tunnel system if a patient is suspected of having the disease.
Arrowe Park Hospital, in Wirral, Merseyside, is closely monitoring ninety-three people at two isolation buildings after they arrived five days ago from crisis-hit Wuhan.
They must remain in the accommodation blocks for two weeks in quarantine as medics assess their condition, reports the Liverpool Echo.
It has since emerged that an intricate emergency plan could be enacted to stop any potential spread of the killer virus which has infected thousands.
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If any evacuee falls ill and needs an operation they will be whisked to a specialist and currently unused theatre room inside Arrowe Park.
A long tented tunnel will be quickly unfurled to ferry them from the isolation units onto the operating table.
That temporary measures will avoid any public areas of the hospital and lead directly to the doors of the surgical theatre.
It can also be revealed that timed drills have been carried out to test the length of time it takes to get a patient on the operating table.
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Anyone involved in the medical treatment – including surgeons and doctors – will have be put into quarantine as a precaution.
NHS workers who have volunteered to take part in the complex surgical process are understood to be currently "on-call."
One well-placed source said: "The amount of planning that's gone into this is amazing, they have thought of every scenario.
"Nobody has needed an operation, yet."
The Department for Health declined to comment.
No mention of coronavirus or Arrowe Park were mentioned when the unique job opportunity first emerged.
It was revealed over the weekend that 11 more people would join the Wirral quarantine, raising the total to 93.
During their evacuation from China, one man became ill and was separated from the rest of the group.
Anthony May-Smith is being cared for in Oxford after feeling unwell as he made his way back to England.
He says he now feels "fine" after a cough and sore throat led to him being put in isolation.
Britons in mainland China have been urged to leave as coronavirus continues to claim more lives in the country.
The Foreign Office amended its travel advice after Health Secretary Matt Hancock said he expects more cases to be diagnosed in the UK.
Officials said the update was a prudent step in case more commercial airlines stopped flights out of China, or China extended travel
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said: "We now advise British nationals in China to leave the country if they can, to minimise their risk of exposure to the virus.
"Where there are still British nationals in Hubei province who wish to be evacuated, we will continue to work around the clock to facilitate this."
Meanwhile, health officials are trying to trace 239 people who flew from Wuhan to the UK before travel restrictions associated with the outbreak came into force.
Chinese authorities said the death toll in mainland China from the coronavirus outbreak has risen to 425, with the number of cases now standing at 20,438.
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