Name: First coronavirus case confirmed in London - latest on COVID-19
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reducing deaths, protecting health workers and developing a vaccine.

Those are the priorities of the World Health Organization set out as we go on air for a two day meeting of health experts in Geneva.

They put together a global call to action to tackle Corona virus, which they've now renamed Cove in 19.

Our health correspondent, Victoria McDonald is in Geneva on Victory will come back to that meeting in a minute.

But first, if you could just bring us up to date on this breaking news about the first case in London, please.

Yes, we understand that it was Ah, woman from mainland China who flew into Britain on who is currently on her way to ST Thomas's Hospital in south London, where they have a specialist center.

That is as much as we know at the moment.

It was always expected that we would get cases here, and the public health system is set up very well.

So we're told to be able to deal with this.

And now what about the W H O meeting that you've been listening in to?

Yes, they've spent 22 days with more than 400 experts putting together a blueprint a road map so that they don't have any gaps.

They want to know where the research should be.

They want to know how they can prevent deaths.

What sort of vaccines need to be developed?

They say that they've got four vaccines, that a potential and maybe two of those might be in human trials within a few months, though not anything ready for bait, maybe 18 months.

What is critical is that they have put together this plan because in the past, there have bean gaps.

This is what the director general had to say just now.

As we speak, research groups are meeting with the leading research funders to start work immediately on the most pressing questions.

Some off this issues include easy toe apply it agnostics, the best approach for infection prevention potential therapists that could be used to treat patients, existing vaccine candidates and howto accelerate them.

You can see there there are a number of questions that they have to answer, and there are numerous and questions that aren't answered, not least, why have been no cases reported in India, Indonesia and Africa, A ll places where there is a lot of movement between China.

So there questions, queries, worries, actually that there haven't been any reports.

But this is how the day in the last two days have unfolded.

When they went into hospital, they were diagnosed with novel Corona virus pneumonia discharged yesterday.

They are cured, and the disease is now called covert 19.

Not much else has changed, though experts still don't have the answers to some critical questions.

How contagious the viruses can it spread without people showing symptoms?

They're even on a clear on the death rate.

So scientists meeting the World Health Organization Geneva have developed a blueprint to help speed up the information we need and to develop medicines to vaccinate, treat and cure.

This meeting is a direct result of lessons learned during the West Africa Ebola outbreak because while they were eventually able to develop a vaccine, they also found that they had huge gaps, particularly in research and development, and they don't want that to happen this time.

The blueprint outlines how to mobilize international action, produce a global research agenda, accelerate the development of medical products to control the outbreak and increase the understanding of the disease.

I'm sure that everyone feels terrible, that so many lives have to be lost in the West Africa Ebola outbreak Before we could get our act together, we don't want to see that.

And in fact, even the debts that are happening on a daily basis in China, you can see that everyone feels bad about that and wants to do something to stop it.

So it doesn't matter which country is affected.

Somehow there seems to be now, at least in the scientific community, a desire that a global public good.

Information from previous Corona virus outbreaks like SARS in the early two thousands means vaccine developers are not starting entirely from scratch.

People are dying as we speak or have already died, so it's never timely enough in our next session.

But what I see what I hear, what I feel, what I also feel myself is that people are doing really the very best and beyond to be as quick as possible.

Little earnings from other outlets situations in the past, like H one on one or Ebola this this is being integrated so that things can go much quicker now room service with a difference protection suits delivering food and temperature checks.

This is a hotel on Hoob, a province currently in quarantine, the Chinese authorities air claiming that overall numbers of new cases of covered 19 are fallen.

The daily number of new confirmed cases dropped 2015 on Tuesday from the pink of 3887 recorded on February the fourth.

The daily number of new suspected cases has also load.

But medical experts are cautious, saying there are too many gaps in the data to know how meaningful this is.

And in Wu Han, the numbers remain overwhelming, with reports of the authorities requisitioning private hospitals, hotels, apartments, cars and even face masks.

So far, more than 45,000 people have been diagnosed with covered 19 and there have bean 1117 deaths.

The numbers outside China remained tiny, but containment is everything, stopping it spread while scientists seek the prevention and the cure retirement.

Donnel reporting from Geneva So as we've heard, it's been revealed in the last hour that a woman who flew into London from China a few days ago is being treated for Corona virus, bringing the total number of U.

She reportedly developed symptoms after landing, and he turned is now in a central London hospital.

Health officials in Sussex say that they've traced all close contact of two GPS who've been diagnosed with the illness.

Several schools in the Brighton area has said that parents can choose to keep their Children at home.

I should tell reports the community watching closely but calmly in Worthing in Brighton and Hope people are taking precautions and asking for more information on covert 19 known as the Corona virus.

And here in Worthing, one of the eight confirmed UK cases works in the any department of this hospital Just outside, people are more aware of the virus than even yesterday.

You get a sense that people are getting a bit more worried in a bit more panic and a bit more worried, a bit more panicking because every time anybody sneezes or coughs or anything else, I get a bit foot nan's that putting their coats up over their mouths and everything else.

But a lot of people have just got common colds.

Jeffrey panics every time they said there was no nuts out.

More schools taking action Parents have been told they can keep their Children home at this school, kids say their classrooms and nearly half empty is usually so.

A lot of talk after you get into the way, isn't it?

Perhaps I called the school and hopefully they said like nothing can.

Yeah, So let's take a look at all the places that have been taking precautions.

More than 10 schools across the region have given pupils the option of staying home.

Five GP Surgeries Close Briefly Most have reopened a community center Onda pub have also been affected.

But a lot of this is precautionary and is related to the suspected but not confirmed contact with the virus.

The man at the center of the virus outbreak, Steve Walsh, has been released from hospital.

In a statement, he said, I'm happy to be home and feeling well.

I want to give a big thank you to the N hs who have bean great throughout.

And my thoughts are with everyone around the world who continues to be affected by the virus.

It's good to be back home with my family.

Public Health England say they've now traced and given advice to the patients of the two GPS who had caught the virus for Mr Walsh today in the area, there's been lots more awareness, and with that a demand for more certainty.

Some people that I've spoken to today say they feel that the council has been missing in action, So I gave the council call, but their mailbox was full.

It seems like they've been inundated with calls.

So what I did was went into reception, and a spokeswoman told me that they want to reiterate that schools are still open.

But some schools have given parents the option of keeping their Children home if they want to on.

They also reiterate that if anyone feels unwell, it'll that they should call 111 For now, there are no new confirmed cases, places a reopening.

The man at the center of it all is back with his family.

None of the eight people who are confirmed to have the cove it 19 virus court it inside the UK But health authorities are still on high alert to return now to our top story on Corona virus in the outbreak in Brighton, the local MP.

Caroline Lucas joins us now from the House of Commons.

Caroline, because there's a lot of panic in Sussex generally.

What do you think that parents or the elderly should do?

Well, three Very honest that I think it's for an MP to give advice.

I think it's for public health England to be giving that advice.

And what I would love to see is a lot more proactive advice being given by Public health.

I think at the moment the information is being put in different places.

It's not all in one portal, for example, on as a result, I think anxiety is growing.

So what I would love to see is a much more coherent, consistent, proactive public health campaign, both nationally on locally because, you know, people are coming to my office, for example, they've got the message about tissues and about washing their hands.

But they're still struggling to understand, for example, what self isolation really means.

So I want to see a lot more information coming out from government and indeed locally to and would do that.

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