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  • 1/3 case of Corona virus has been identified in the UK, Health officials are now trying to trace anyone who had contact with the patient who was diagnosed in Brighton but has now been transferred for specialist treatment.

  • In London, meanwhile, the Chinese ambassador hazards the British government to avoid overreacting to the outbreak after Britain's were advised to leave China if they could.

  • Eielson social care correspondent Victoria McDonald reports Patient number three now in a specialist isolation unit and ST Thomas's Hospital brought here from Brighton after testing positive for novel Corona virus.

  • Two others fell ill last week in York and now being treated a 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 bean to China, Thailand, Japan, Republic of Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia or Macao.

  • But we're devising people from who've traveled from those countries in the last 14 days.

  • If they get any off the symptoms compatible with the Corona virus, then they should self isolate and phone 111 thing.

  • Focus still remains on China when 99% 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 modeling shows there are likely to be more than a 100,000 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 whistle blower, but Wu Han Hospital later said he was in a critical condition.

  • Talk to Lee when Liang and several other medics were at the time accused by officials of scaremongering and were reprimanded by the police.

  • These are fi brought times with China's ambassador to the UK hitting out at the rumors and panic over Corona virus.

  • This was widely seen as a reference to the Foreign Office advice to Britain's 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 gate tell overreaction is not helpful.

  • We asked them to take advice off a W h o to, you know, make a reasonable response.

  • Uh, 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 they're still remain questions about whether China reacted quickly enough to the outbreak on whether they could have prevented it spreading beyond Wu Han.

1/3 case of Corona virus has been identified in the UK, Health officials are now trying to trace anyone who had contact with the patient who was diagnosed in Brighton but has now been transferred for specialist treatment.

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