UK facing 'major outbreak' of coronavirus as disease spreads, expert warns

[jpak]

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Experts have warned the UK is facing a “major outbreak” of coronavirus in the coming weeks as it continues to spread across the globe.

Professor Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said the outbreak is likely to become a pandemic, adding he was becoming “increasingly alarmed” about the rate of infection.

The death toll in China from the coronavirus has risen to 811, surpassing SARS fatalities in the 2002-2003 outbreak.

Outside China there are 288 cases in 24 countries, with one death, according to the World Health Organisation.

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[bobbieinok]

1. And anti Chinese racist incidents will increase? There's a DU post on the racism