GP surgery closes as 'doctor gets coronavirus' after holidaying with 'super-spreader' businessman and three others in French ski resort while £10,500-a-year private school shuts after pupils' families are put into 'isolation' - as total infected in UK hits eight
- Four more patients diagnosed in Brighton over the weekend and were all known contacts of UK's third case
- They were all taken to specialist hospitals in London where they will be treated in isolated for at least 14 days
- County Oak Medical Centre in Brighton are closed today for 'urgent operational health and safety reasons'
- Do you know any of the patients? Email stephen.matthews@mailonline.co.uk or call 0203 615 0203A Brighton GP practice has been closed because a member of staff – thought to be a doctor – has tested positive for the killer coronavirus which has now infected eight people in the UK.It is feared the staff member came into contact with a British 'super spreader', who is believed to have infected at least 11 others on a French ski holiday.Patients at Brighton's County Oak medical centre, which said it had shut for 'health and safety reasons', have been urged to ring NHS 111 if they have any concerns.Five new patients – four men and a woman – were diagnosed with the deadly SARS-like infection in Brighton over the weekend and transferred to specialist hospitals in London to be treated in quarantine for 14 days.
All of the patients were 'known contacts' of a businessman from neighbouring Hove, who became the UK's third case last Friday after picking up the virus at a work conference in Singapore.They are all believed to have been staying in the same chalet in Les Contamines-Montjoie, close to Mont Blanc.The six others who have fallen ill since holidaying with the 'super-spreader' include five more Britons being cared for in a French hospital and a father-of-two British expat who flew home to Majorca where he became ill.It comes as a £10,500-a-year private school in Southampton has been closed for three days for a 'deep clean' after the family of some pupils were isolated over coronavirus fears when they returned from China with symptoms.
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