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A Man who returned from Italy with a fever, said he waited four days without a call back from NHS 111 Clinician.

Dean Hall , who works on IT projects with the British Army , told the BBC he is worried if he is the coronavirus, he might want to the spread of military use.

the Others say, the advice of the line, gave them confusing, contradictory instructions.

The NHS said that despite The High demand, will not be answered All calls, and the service was calling for the recruitment of additional event handlers.

"Everyone said the concerns about coronavirus you should call NHS 111 and while the service is understandably busy, and the people may have to wait longer than usual - All calls will be answered thanks to hard - working NHS staff," a spokeswoman for.

BBC health editor Hugh Pym said that some of the calls come from people who have visited Places outside of The List of the countries hardest hit by The Virus , adding to the pressure.

Mr Hall said he went on a five-day "whirlwind" tour of the European countries with his daughter over half-term, the Milan and the nearby towns, before returning to the United Kingdom on the 18. February.

he said he was sent home from work with a cough on 24 February. The next day he called updated 111 when he developed a fever, and the advice for travellers from Italy.

First of All , Mr Hall said he was told not to worry as he was back in front of the cut-off date in the official advice to the 19. February. But on his third call After his symptoms worsened, he was promised a doctor would return to the ring.

27. In February, he said, he had a temperature of 102. 6F (39. 2C), and it took an hour-and-a-half to 111. "I just said, 'I can't see, you had your call, you're on The List ," he said.

Mr hall, Basingstoke, said his company provides IT support for the military, and on 20 and 21 February, he was just 30. Signal Regiment in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.

"If I have it, I have to tell you and make you aware, so you can go through Tests before they are sent for deployment overseas," he said.

He said he is worried for his mother, who had sent a pneumonia four times in the last year, as his sister and brother-in-law were both home from their jobs until the All -clear.

"I literally just locked myself in my room," said Mr Hall said. Try to reduce The Risk of the spread of The Virus to his roommate by a common kitchen and bathroom, he said: "I am with more disinfectant spray than I have ever been in My Life . "

Carole Timms, a nurse from Shropshire-homes work in nursing, told the BBC she and a friend were. because of the conflicting advice, when you return from Venice on the 20 February.

Although she had no symptoms at All , Mrs Timms NHS 111 told she was worried told about The Risk to their patients and to isolate themselves.

But her friend who works in a college with adults with disabilities, was told it was necessary. The report was amended, if Mrs Timms pointed to the discrepancy.

"If you had just called, on your own, you would again not work, if you may, it should. Or maybe I would have, and the other advising," Mrs Timms said.

The nurse said that you will lose faces about £2,000 of Agency work, while in self-isolation, but She Said the risks interested with older people they are too large, not to be careful.

"I feel a moral obligation," She Said . "If, God Forbid , something happens, people will say that the nurse came from the North of Italy, and now she's responsible for a load of deaths. "

Iwona Dunsford of Milton Keynes , said she contacted NHS 111 for testing After their return from Düsseldorf with a cough and cold - also when The City is not on The List of high-risk areas for The Virus .

The support hotline told her to go to Milton Keynes hospital, but The Hospital you are transferred back to the 111. Then she was held to a chemist, but the chemist has transferred you to The Hospital .

"I'm OK, but what about the people who are in a worse state than I? On the TV we are told that the UK is ready for this," Ms Dunford said.

In Scotland, Alan Kelly said, Public Health authorities initially said to him that he should be tested After he developed flu symptoms After a trip to Milan on the 14. February.

But they changed their minds, if the government's advice for travellers to Italy, has been updated, because it is said that only those who were on the way back to February 19, is a concern.

"is Certainly the prudent thing to do would be to test people with symptoms that in The High -risk area?", he said.

The UK's chief medical officers say that anyone who has returned from Iran, the 11 under quarantine cities in Italy and the "special care areas" in South Korea since the 19th century. February, you should call the NHS 111 helpline, stay indoors and avoid contact with others.

who has again started in the last 14 days out of the Hubei province in China , where the outbreak - should do the same.

people should also isolate the helpline and yourself, if you are experiencing cough, fever or shortness of Breath - however, Mild - to return to the UK from The Following locations:

Source of news: bbc.com