a ninth person has tested positive for
coronavirus in the UK the woman flew
into London from China and was tested
after developing symptoms the man at the
center of the main outbreak in the UK
Steve Walsh a businessman from East
Sussex has now been discharged from
hospital after being given the all-clear
he'd caught the virus on a business trip
to Singapore the World Health
Organization says the number of new
infections in China is stabilizing but
it's too early to say if the epidemic is
past its peak our health editor Hugh Pym
has more details tonight at San Thomas's
Hospital in central London the 9th
patient with the corona virus in the UK
is being treated a woman who flew into
Heathrow from China recently she didn't
have any symptoms when she arrived
another patient meanwhile was leaving
the same hospital Steve Walsh after a
full recovery from the virus and no
longer contagious according to the NHS
he'd contracted it in Singapore and then
unwittingly infected 11 others one of
them is that GP who worked two days last
week at Worthing hospital that doctors
now being treated in isolation elsewhere
the hospitals still running but some
patients are concerned my husband took
my son over to A&E on Friday night and I
just want to check that my son didn't
come into contact with the health worker
because obviously you just never know da
I think everyone's panicking and I think
there needs to be more in the media to
say you know don't panic
you know yep it's serious but we're
dealing with it some local parents have
asked to take their children out of
school say to people I asked public
health England if they could reassure
people in Brighton and Worthing there is
not a general risk to people either in
schools or in any other kind of
facilities just because there happens to
have been somebody with this infection
in that area so I can reassure on that
point if children need to be out of
school that's because we've told them
the latest case means there are nine in
the UK while more than 1700 people have
tested negative here there are more than
forty four and a half thousand confirmed
cases in China and around 1,100 deaths
at the moment it's still entirely post
or that we may be a in a position where
the Chinese authorities managed to get
on top of this infection the biggest
risk to us is actually if the efforts in
mainland China don't succeed in
maintaining the infection and
restricting it to China and if many
other countries then have widespread
outbreaks of infection meanwhile people
quarantined at arrow Park Hospital in
Wirral will tomorrow complete their
14-day isolation I'm very very pleased
to announce that each and every one of
us the 83 people that were on that first
evacuation flight from Wuhan have tested
negative for coronavirus so we're coming
home government sources say there's no
reason for public concern about people
leaving quarantine and have appealed for
their privacy to be respected qpm BBC
news well that the World Health
Organization in Geneva doctors
scientists and global health experts
have been discussing their approach to
the corona virus outbreak we can talk to
our global health correspondent tulip
Mazumdar who's there for us and she'll
have given the news from China the
possible stabilization of figures there
what conclusions have been drawn there
in Geneva well scientists here over the
last two days have been really poring
over all the data that's been coming in
from the start of this outbreak they are
saying and it's very early days that it
looks like the outbreak could be
stabilizing but that is just a snapshot
of what's been happening over the last
seven days and that could change at any
time but it is at least a positive trend
for the moment and the World Health
Organization has talked about how this
creates a window of opportunity to as it
calls it hammer this virus over the
coming days and weeks and that's what
we've seen scientists really trying to
get to the nub of here they are trying
to prioritize what research needs to
happen what needs to happen to make sure
that this outbreak doesn't become a
global pandemic what they say urgently
needs to happen one of the first
priorities is coming up with a better
diagnostic test at the moment you've got
to send samples off to a lab they come
back it takes time what doctors in China
say they urgently need is a test that
you can do in someone's home or in a
local Health Center and you can get the
results
very quickly the other thing that
scientists are looking at is how
effective these quite extreme measures
that we've seen in China of quarantine
entire cities actually is it hasn't been
done on this scale ever before early
evidence suggests that it has actually
been quite effective but this is an
outbreak of firsts and scientists are
continuing to learn new things about it
every single day to lift many thanks
again to the Mazumdar there with the
latest in Geneva