18:23At the StayCity hotel on Friday, business carried on as usual, with guests continuing to check in for weekend breaks in York despite the firm confirming that two people who have tested positive for coronavirus in the UK had been staying there. Outside the hotel, two guests told the Guardian that as recently as Friday morning they had been told by reception staff the reports that two tourists had been taken ill from their apartment on Wednesday were “lies”. “This morning they said it was a lie and not to listen to it,” said Andy Neale, 21, who is staying at StayCity for the night with his girlfriend. Although her mother, Chrisa Papakosta, 48, whom she had been staying at the hotel with, was unfazed by the event she was “concerned” by it. A statement from StayCity, the chain that owns the hotel, read:

Source: The Guardian January 31, 2020 02:21 UTC