CORONAVIRUS will become a worldwide pandemic if governments do not impose heavy global travel bans, experts have warned.
"We are expecting to see epicentres of self-sustaining epidemics in these other major city clusters on the mainland." Some 52 people across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have already been tested for the deadly flu-like virus and were found to be negative., as there are concerns the killer bug will hit the UK.
Thailand and Hong Kong each reported eight cases, the US, Taiwan, Australia and Macau have five each, Singapore, Japan, South Korea and Malaysia declared four, France has three, Vietnam two, and Nepal one.The youngest confirmed case is a nine-year-old girl in Beijing.It comes as hundreds of Brits are stranded at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak after China blocked attempts to airlift them home.
UK Home Secretary Patel said the government was "looking at all options" as it considers airlifting British nationals from Wuhan.Members of a military medical team head to the hospital in Wuhan as worried Brits in the say they had been left without any informationWith the city under quarantine supplies are running low in this Wuhan supermarketCoronavirus is an airborne virus, spread in a similar way to colds and the flu.
While several other countries have confirmed cases of Coronavirus, so far no one has died outside China. WuhanOutbreak wuhanconoravirus Wuhan plague coronavirus CoronaOutbreak chinaflu
People should research the 1918 flu pandemic before panicking. But personal hygiene goes a long way to slowing down the spread.
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