Coronavirus: Chinese doctor who warned about outbreak dies from infection – latest news
Dr Li Wenliang died in Wuhan. Meanwhile UK confirms third case and 10 more people on stricken cruise ship off the coast of Japan are diagnosed with virus
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The World Health Organization is bringing together global scientists to tackle the coronavirus.
On 11 and 12 February the WHO is convening a global research and innovation forum to identify research priorities and coordinate an international effort into developing vaccines and medicines for the disease.
The third person to be diagnosed with coronavirus in the UK contracted the disease outside of China, it has emerged.
The patient, who it is understood was diagnosed in Brighton but is being transferred to a London hospital, did not contract the disease in the UK or mainland China but another country in Asia.
The person who caught this did not catch it in China, they caught it elsewhere in Asia. That’s an important point from an epidemiological point of view because […] there is now evidence of some limited transmission in a number of Asian countries.