LONDON (Sputnik) – The UK’s Department of Health and Social Care on Sunday confirmed the fourth case of coronavirus, adding that the patient was infected in France.
The case was also confirmed by Chris Whitty, the chief medical advisor in the country, who added that the UK’s National Health Service was working on identifying “any further contacts the patient has had”.
Meanwhile, UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Sunday that London had evacuated 200 British nationals and citizens of other European countries from China’s coronavirus-affected city of Wuhan.
Currently, the death toll from the new coronavirus is more than 800 in China, with the total number of registered cases exceeding 37,000. Outside the UK and France, the virus has been detected in several other European countries, namely Germany, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Finland, and Russia.
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