UK Coronavirus Cases Double to 8, Government Declares ‘Imminent Threat’

UK Coronavirus Cases Double to 8, Government Declares ‘Imminent Threat’
Passengers from China disembark from a plane at RAF Brize Norton near Oxford, United Kingdom, on Feb. 9, 2020. Peter Nicholls/Reuters/File
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The United Kingdom on Feb. 10 said the number of confirmed coronavirus cases had doubled to eight as the government declared the virus a serious and imminent threat, giving it additional powers to isolate those suspected of being infected.

Alarm over the coronavirus that emerged in Wuhan, China, in December is driven by its rapid spread and the fact that infectious disease experts cannot yet know how deadly or contagious it is.