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The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK has risen to 51, the Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.
The jump comes after the number of confirmed cases in the UK hit 39 yesterday, with a school in Devon confirming that a pupil had been diagnosed with coronavirus after travelling from northern Italy.
Mr Hancock said: “We’ve responded to a wide range of disease outbreaks in the past, the NHS has been preparing for a pandemic virus for over a decade, we have world class expertise to make sense of the emerging data, we have a strong base on which to build.”
He said the UK is currently in the containment phase but added: “If the number of global cases continues to rise, especially in Europe, the scientific advice is that we may not be able to contain the virus indefinitely”.
Mr Hancock added that “reacting too early or over-reacting carries its own risk”, saying that the government would, therefore, “seek to minimise social disruption”.
Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth called for government assurances that low-paid, casual workers and others who may not be entitled to sick pay, be looked after financially if they have to self-isolate.
He said the Labour Party would support any emergency legislation ensuring people will not “have to put their health before financial interest or vice versa”.
Courtesy of Sky News
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