a third case of coronavirus has been
identified in the UK health officials
are now trying to trace anyone who had
contact with the patient he was
diagnosed in Brighton but has now been
transferred for specialist treatment in
London meanwhile the Chinese ambassador
has urged the British government to
avoid overreacting to the outbreak after
Britons were advised to leave China if
they could buy health and social care
correspondent Victoria McDonald reports
patient number three now in a specialist
isolation unit in st. Thomas's hospital
brought here from Brighton after testing
positive for novel coronavirus two
others fell ill last week in York and
are now being treated in Newcastle this
latest patient however contracted the
virus in Asia but not in China
so tonight doctors were told to test
people if they came in with symptoms and
if they have been to China Thailand
Japan Republic of Korea Hong Kong Taiwan
Singapore Malaysia or Macau
we're advising people from who've
traveled from those countries in the
last 14 days if they get any of the
symptoms compatible with the corona
virus then they should self isolate and
phone one-one-one the focus still
remains on China when 99 percent of the
cases have been reported the latest
official figures are just under 600
people have died and more than 28,000 of
being confirmed with the virus yet
mathematical modelling shows there are
likely to be more than a 100 thousand
cases and many more deaths than reported
and today there was confusion over
whether a Chinese doctor who was one of
the first to alert others about the Wu
Han virus back in December had himself
died from the virus tributes were paid
to him as a whistleblower but Wuhan
hospital later said he was in a critical
condition dr. Lee wen Liang and several
other medics were at the time accused by
officials of scaremongering and were
reprimanded by the police these are
febrile times with China's ambassador to
the UK hitting out at the rumours and
panic over coronavirus this was widely
seen as a reference to the Foreign
Office advice to Britain
to leave China have you formally or
informally approached the Foreign Office
at any point over the past few days to
ask them to review their request to
British nationals to get out of China as
soon as they can
yes we did tell overreaction is not
helpful we asked them to take advice of
w-h-o to you know make a reasonable
response do not overreact
indeed the w-h-o specifically said when
it declared a global public health
emergency that there shouldn't be any
travel or trade restrictions and they
too have clearly been irritated with the
UK and other government responses yet
there still remain questions about
whether China reacted quickly enough to
the outbreak and whether they could have
prevented it spreading beyond Wuhan