He declared the corona virus to be an urgent and serious threat to public health, giving the government additional authority to deal with the epidemic.

"The British Foreign Office today claims the infection or transmission of new strain of coronavirus (nCoV) is an urgent and serious threat to public health," according to a statement from the British Ministry of Health.

The declaration of nCoV is an urgent threat that gives the UK government more authority to put in place quarantine rules for infected people.

He made the statement just a day after the final evacuation flight brought more than 200 people from Wuhan, China to the British Royal Air Force base Brize Norton. Passengers on this flight will be isolated for 14 days. He evacuated 100 people from Wuhan to the country on January 31.

The British Ministry of Health selected Arrowe Park Hospital and Kent Hill Park Convention Center as a quarantine facility, and also called Wuhan and Hubei Province in China a "epidemic zone".

However, the UK Ministry of Health also believes that the risk of nCoV infection in the UK remains "average".

He has just recorded 4 cases of nCoV infection. In addition, four British citizens were found to be infected with nCoV in France on February 8 after being exposed to one of the cases of nCoV infection in the UK. People who spread nCoV to new patients attended a meeting in Singapore in January with many from China. Malaysia, South Korea and Singapore have recorded cases of nCoV infection that have been to this meeting.

The outbreak of acute pneumonia caused by nCoV in Wuhan City, the capital of Hubei Province, from the beginning of December 2019, spread to 31 provinces in China and 26 countries and territories around the world. As of February 10, the disease has killed 910 people and more than 40,000 cases of nCoV, mainly in Hubei, China.

Countries with nCoV pneumonia patients. Click on image to see details.