{"id":61473,"date":"2020-02-11T09:07:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T01:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=61473"},"modified":"2020-02-11T09:07:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T01:07:17","slug":"uk-calls-coronavirus-serious-threat-reports-new-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=61473","title":{"rendered":"UK calls coronavirus \u2018serious\u2019 threat, reports new cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/uk.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/uk-696x392.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>LONDON, Feb 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The British government warned<br>the outbreak of novel coronavirus was a \u201cserious and imminent threat\u201d and<br>reported four new cases that brought the total recorded in the country to<br>eight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone with the virus can now be forcibly quarantined and sent into<br>isolation if they are deemed to pose a public health threat, the government<br>said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two hospitals have been designated as \u201cisolation\u201d facilities, with both<br>currently housing Britons who have returned from Wuhan, the Chinese city at the centre of the outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe incidence or transmission of novel coronavirus constitutes a serious<br>and imminent threat to public health,\u201d the health ministry warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An unnamed government source said the new measures were announced because one person who returned from China on an evacuation flight \u201cwas threatening to abscond\u201d from 14-day isolation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new patients who tested positive in Britain are all known contacts of<br>a previously confirmed case in France, the ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health authorities were not able to confirm if these are the same cases<br>reported by the French authorities on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five British nationals who tested positive in France came in contact with<br>a Briton who had returned from Singapore and stayed at a ski chalet near Mont Blanc in the French Alps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The four new patients have been transferred to specialist centres in two<br>London hospitals \u201cand we are now using robust infection control measures to prevent further spread of the virus,\u201d the health ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The health service was \u201cextremely well prepared to manage these cases and<br>treat them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two evacuation flights have returned British nationals from Wuhan and they have been taken into quarantine for two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health minister Matt Hancock said the new regulations would \u201censure that<br>the public are protected as far as possible from the transmission of the<br>virus\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SARS-like virus, which first emerged at the end of last year, has<br>killed more than 900 people and spread around the world. Some 40,000 people have been infected in China and 350 elsewhere. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, Feb 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The British government warnedthe outbreak of novel coronavirus was a \u201cserious and imminent threat\u201d andreported four new cases that brought the total recorded in the country toeight. Anyone with the virus can now be forcibly quarantined and sent intoisolation if they are deemed to pose a public health threat, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61473"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}