It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to a statement by the chief physician of England Chris Whitty.
It is known that three new cases of infection are associated with already known people, about one patient in Essex it is not yet clear how he became infected with the coronavirus: he has not left the country recently. At the same time, six sick people recently returned from Italy, two from Iran.
Previously reported 23 patients with coronavirus in Britain.
On March 1, it became known that the number of people infected with the new type of coronavirus infection COVID-19 in Germany increased to 117.
The senior researcher at the Russian Scientific and Methodological Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS, epidemiologist Oleg Yurin, in an interview with NSN, assessed the situation with the spread of coronavirus.