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  • Three more people have tested positive in the UK for Corona virus, with Northern Ireland confirming its first case tonight.

  • All of them were infected after traveling to Italy or 10 a reef, then are being treated at Specialist N HS infection centers.

  • To date, more than a seven and 1/2 1000 people in the UK have been tested for the virus.

  • 16 were positive.

  • Eight of them have now been discharged from hospital.

  • But with more cases expected to emerge, the government is set to launch a new public health campaign.

  • Fears about the impact the virus could have on the global economy has caused markets to plunge today.

  • More on that in a moment.

  • But first is our health editor Que pin Another frustrating day for British tourists confined in quarantine at this Tenner Reef hotel on Italian visitor tested positive for the Corona virus on Monday.

  • There was confusion when the local health minister said 50 Britons who'd arrived since Monday were free to leave.

  • They seem to have decided not to, as advice from their travel agent on the Foreign Office was to stay put.

  • Meanwhile, apparent at this school in Derbyshire who had returned from Tenerife tested positive.

  • The school was closed for a deep clean.

  • A local GP practice also asked patients to stay away because of the case, one of two diagnosed in England today and tonight, confirmation by Northern Ireland health chiefs of the first case there the patient had traveled from northern Italy.

  • Public health staff here are no working rapidly to identify any contacts the patient has had with the aim off preventing further spread.

  • All of that has further fueled public interest in the virus and getting tested.

  • The N.

  • H s is expanding the options, including this drive thru facility.

  • We were given the first look at how it works.

  • Laura here is a member of N HS staff.

  • She's just going to demonstrate what actually happens.

  • So she stays in the car, she winds down the window and then two members of the nursing team will come out to meet her.

  • One of them has got the full protective equipment on her colleague stands back a safer distance.

  • Erica, the senior nurse, shows information about the procedure on, then carries out nasal and throat swabs.

  • They're sent off for testing people referred here by N H s 111 If they don't have symptoms but need to self isolate, they get through 12 tests a day.

  • The aim is to roll out facilities like this across the country.

  • One key question how to protect yourself.

  • The message from health leaders is that masks don't necessarily help much.

  • They say that careful hand hygiene is the best way to slow any spread of the virus.

  • A new public information campaign like this is set to be launched soon.

  • It is washing your hands with soap and hot water are using alcohol and sanitized gels.

  • If you want to sneeze or cough, use a tissue and then Bennett, all of these things will keep you and your family safe.

  • So how prepared is the N H s Corona virus pods?

  • Have bean created a leading hospitals to allow safe testing.

  • The N H s 111 help line will be expanded.

  • And if there are a lot more cases and HS leaders say hospitals will be able to cope, I know the N H s is busy and we're coming out of winter.

  • But we are well prepared.

  • Thio manage this sort of circumstance we do it every winter when we know we will see high rates of influenza, for instance, eso we have a blueprint to work on.

  • But health experts are concerned by the global spread of the virus.

  • One said tonight it was an unprecedented challenge.

  • Toe health systems, economies and societies.

  • Cubin BBC News Well, stock markets around the world have plunged as investors get seriously worried about the Corona virus and the impact it could have on global economies.

  • It's been the worst week on the market since the financial crisis in 2008.

  • Michelle Fleury is in New York for us now, and today has been particularly bad.

  • Yeah, I mean, this was not a day for the faint hearted.

  • Certainly if you ask any trader from the city of London to Wall Street, we've seen yet again shark dropped in the in the prices of stocks, all of this being driven by investors who are basically pretty worried about what is happening with the Corona virus.

  • Over £150 billion has been wiped off the value of the foot in the last four days, and here on Wall Street, you've seen the Dow Jones Industrial basically just suffer its biggest points loss in history.

  • It also joins other market's slumping into a correction, which is a drop of more than 10% over a period of days on the price of oil continues to fall sharply.

  • What is happening is that investors are trying to do what everyone else is, and that is to predict what will happen next.

  • How far and how fast will this virus spread?

  • The impact on corporate profits could be severe if you start to see officers close, people stop traveling on people.

  • Stop shopping.

  • We even had a warning from one of the big Wall Street banks.

  • Goldman Sachs say it could tip the US into recession Michelle and yield.

  • Thank you.

  • While Corona virus has spread to 50 countries now and reached every continent except Antarctica worldwide, there have been more than 82,000 cases and 2800 deaths, almost all of them in China.

  • In Japan, where they're preparing for this summer's Olympics all state schools to close for a month in a bid to stop the further spread of the virus, the vast majority of the deaths in China have been in who obeyed the province where the outbreak began.

  • Our China correspondent John said Worth has been speaking to one doctor who is on the front line in Wuhan wth e end of a tough shift fighting the virus.

  • A doctor steps out onto the streets of a deserted city.

  • Wuhan is still in total lock down.

  • Hello, Dr Shia.

  • Hey, are you in an officially approved interview with Dr Sher Jang, A.

  • CZ?

  • Well, as in videos provided tours, the BBC has been given rare access to a man on the front line of a war, which he says is being one.

  • I came to Wuhan one month ago.

  • Our patients, we're pouring into possible like a tide and can not.

  • We do not have enough about that's available for for everyone.

  • I think things are are holding up better.

  • Right now, Wuhan shows what the virus can do to a health system.

  • The thousands of extra beds have begun to make a difference, but there is still a major challenges.

  • I'm not satisfactory with those mortality as dosing.

  • Immortality is really too high for patients with severe symptoms that it is even the mortality is even higher than stars.

  • That's the thing we should address right now.

  • This is Dr Share, dealing with one of those severe cases among thousands in Wuhan.

  • No city in the world, he says, would have enough specialist equipment to cope.

  • Even doctors have died, including Lee Wen liang, one of the first to try to warn about the dangers of the virus, only to be silenced by the police.

  • You know, I was very sad when I heard this kind of knows he's really a big bow for for us, for the whole medical medical stuff.

  • Do you think China should learn lessons as a result of his death?

  • Absolutely.

  • Information disclosure.

  • It's really important.

  • I lost five patients in one night and imagine that in one night I lost 25 lives.

  • I shouldn't warn the rest of the word that you guys should take care.

  • I don't nickel act neglected this.

  • This is so at the end of another night shift.

  • This time, Dr Sher Singh's a patriotic song.

  • He believes China will win this fight, but it's one.

  • The rest of the world may have only just begun, John said.

  • Worth BBC News Beijing, and you can find out more about the symptoms and how to guard against Corona virus on the BBC news app on on our website.

good evening.

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