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The spread of coronavirus is a “serious and imminent threat” to the British public, the health secretary has said.
The announcement by Matt Hancock gives the government additional powers to fight the spread of the virus, which originated in a market in Wuhan, China and has been confirmed in four people in the UK.
A Department of Health statement said: “The Secretary of State has made regulations to ensure that the public are protected as far as possible from the transmission of the virus.
“The Secretary of State declares that the incidence or transmission of novel Coronavirus constitutes a serious and imminent threat to public health, and the measures outlined in these regulations are considered as an effective means of delaying or preventing further transmission of the virus.”
Mr Hancock has designated Arrowe Park Hospital in the Wirral, and Kents Hill Park in Milton Keynes, where Britons evacuated from Wuhan have been transferred to, as “isolation” facilities.
Wuhan and Hubei province have also been declared an “infected area” by the health secretary.
The Department of Health clarified that the risk to the public “has not changed” and by declaring the outbreak as a “serious and imminent threat” it makes it easier, legally, for health professionals to keep those in isolation at the two sites safe, as well as people across the country.
Courtesy of Sky News
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