9 Feb 2020

Coronavirus: Another person tests positive for the virus in England

Another person has tested positive for the coronavirus in England, bringing the total number of cases in the UK to four. 

Another person has tested positive for the coronavirus in England, bringing the total number of cases in the UK to four.

The new case came as another plane carrying more than 200 mainly British citizens from Wuhan landed in Oxfordshire. The total death toll for the virus has now exceeded that of the SARS epidemic in 2003.

More than 800 people have been killed by coronavirus, almost all of them in China.