Coronavirus experts don't know how fast it could spread on Tube

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It’s feared the highly-contagious disease could easily spread among packed Tube carriages and buses, but experts have said the risk can’t be properly assessed until they know more about the new strain of coronavirus, dubbed COVID-19.

He said: ‘I’m not saying don’t touch hand rails and ticket machines, but don’t then bring your hand up to your face, nose and eyes. Fortunately, Dr Dawood said this advice is not relevant to the UK at this stage, but he warned it will ‘ultimately’ apply if the disease continues to spread. Chief Medical Officer for England Professor Chris Witty said: ‘One further patient in England has tested positive for novel coronavirus , bringing the total number of cases in the UK to nine.

On his way back to the UK from Singapore, he stopped off at a ski region in France, where five other Britons were subsequently infected with coronavirus, now formally named Covid-19. Meanwhile, Steve Walsh, the businessman at the centre of the UK outbreak of coronavirus, has said he is ‘happy to be home’

 

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