4. David Beckham Rex Features

DAVID Beckham’s family have been caught up in a swine flu scare after the footballer’s niece was suspected of being infected in an outbreak.

The England international has been banned from seeing older sister Lynne and her children Georgina, 11, Freddie, nine, and four-year-old Joshua, after they were told to stay at home in quarantine after the eldest child displayed symptoms of swine flu following a school trip.

The superstar footballer - who is thought to be in the Seychelles with his wife Victoria to celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary - is said to be extremely concerned about his family after Freddie as well as Georgina were suspected of contracting swine flu.

Three children in Georgina’s year were diagnosed with swine flu from a group of nearly 90 pupils from St Edwards CofE Primary School in Romford, Essex, after attending an activity camp in Hindhead, Surrey.

All the pupils who went on the trip - including Georgina - are now off school since arriving back from the camp on Friday and being given anti-viral medication Tamiflu.

After suffering symptoms such as headaches, sore throat and sickness, Georgina was sent to a doctor and given medicine to stop an infection.

Married Lynne, 37, said from her east London home: "I got the phone call that Georgina was being sick on the holiday and they were bringing the children home. I took her to the doctor and he was 99 per cent sure she had it."

"David has been on the phone and he said to wish her well. But she is getting better"

She continued: "David has been on the phone and he said to wish her well. But she is getting better."

The St Edwards CofE Primary School released a statement which read: "The safety and well-being of our children is our highest priority and we are following all the advice and guidance from the Health Protection Agency.

"There are no plans to close the school and if any child or parent has flu-like symptoms then they should stay at home in isolation for at least seven days and contact their GP."

A statement on the website for activity camp owner PGL - which stands for Parents Get Lost – said “there was no cause for alarm" and it had implemented "infection control measures".

It said: "There is also a predominance of the virus in schools. It is therefore reasonable to assume that there is a chance that many schools and our centres will have cases of the virus at some stage.”

The news comes as the Government warned new cases of swine flu could top more than 100,000 a day by the end of August, and admitted that the virus could no longer be contained.

The total number of recorded cases has jumped from 3,500 last week to more than 7,400.

Although most people have developed relatively mild cases of the flu, three patients with underlying health problems have died in Britain.