Britain’s third coronavirus patient was diagnosed in Brighton today – almost a week after a mother and son tested positive in York Britain’s third coronavirus patient flew into the country from outside China, it was revealed today – sparking fears the outbreak is much more widespread than previously thought. Public Health England said the patient had not visited the mainland and instead caught the highly contagious virus ‘elsewhere in Asia’ before arriving back to the UK sometime last week. They went to A&E at the Royal Sussex in Brighton on Sunday night after suffering flu-like symptoms, where they were tested for the killer disease and kept in for monitoring. When results came back positive this morning they were whisked off to be quarantined for at least two weeks in a specialist infectious diseases unit at a London hospital. The coronavirus epidemic has so far claimed 565 lives and infected more than 28,500 people in 28 countries and territories around the world – but 99 per cent of infections have been in China. The latest case raises fears the virus is now circulating in higher numbers than previously thought outside of the mainland. NHS bosses are expected to warn GPs to be on… Read full this story
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