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LONDON, Feb 27 (Reuters) – Two additional instances of coronavirus have been confirmed in the UK, bringing the overall variety of instances to 15, England’s chief medical officer Chris Whitty stated on Thursday.
“The virus was handed on in Italy and Tenerife and the sufferers have been transferred to specialist NHS an infection centres in Royal Liverpool Hospital and the Royal Free Hospital, London,” the assertion stated.
Governments are ramping up measures to battle a looming international pandemic of the coronavirus because the variety of infections outdoors China, the supply of the outbreak, for the primary time surpassed these showing contained in the nation.
The coronavirus has contaminated greater than 80,000 individuals and killed practically 2,800, the bulk in China. A lot stays unknown in regards to the virus however it’s clear the ramifications of the world’s second-biggest financial system in lockdown for a month or extra are huge.
(Reporting by Elizabeth Howcroft;…