PARIS, Feb 11 — A British man managed to pass on the coronavirus to at least 11 other people without ever setting foot in the epicentre of the outbreak in China, in an infectious journey that shows how the deadly virus can spread rapidly around a globalised world. The adult British citizen, who...
A couple pass a sign outside the Royal Victoria Infirmary, where two confirmed coronavirus patients are being treated, in Newcastle, Britain February 1, 2020. — Reuters pic
Of those infected by the man, five have been hospitalised in France, five in Britain and one other man on the Spanish island of Mallorca.The man attended a business conference in Singapore from January 20-22. More than 100 people took part in the conference, including at least one Chinese national from Hubei province, the epicentre of the epidemic that has now left more than 900 dead.
Some of the staff from The Grenadier pub, which the man went to just before he was hospitalised, have also been placed in isolation. But the pub has stayed open. Business owners in the Contamines-Montjoie resort have been keen to avoid any exaggerations of the threat as French families prepared to descend on the area for the half-term ski holidays.
The man in Mallorca is “currently in good health. He shows practically no symptom,” said Fernando Simon, an official from Spain's health ministry.
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