Twelve patients treated by two British GPs who have been diagnosed with coronavirus have been traced by health officials, according to the BBC.
Between them, the two doctors worked in four different places in East and West Sussex – a nursing home, an A&E department, and two GP practices.
Steve Walsh, who infected 11 people after catching the virus in Singapore and staying with friends in France, has now left the hospital and returned home.
NHS England said he was “no longer contagious” and posed “no risk to the public”.
The total number of people with coronavirus in the UK is eight. There are six cases from the Brighton area – Steve Walsh plus five others – and two cases, both Chinese nationals, who were staying in York.
The World Health Organisation said the UK cases involving no history of travel to China could be “the spark that becomes a bigger fire”.
