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The Royal Free Hospital, in north London, said two of the patients had been taken for treatment at its high consequence infectious disease treatment centre.
A statement said:
We are treating an additional two patients with Wuhan novel coronavirus at the Royal Free Hospital (RFH), which means there are a total of three patients with the condition at the RFH.
The RFH is one of a small number of specialist centres in England for treating infectious diseases such as coronavirus.
Staff at a local community centre in Brighton have been advised to self-isolate after the man at the centre of the Brighton and Hove outbreak visited a class there last week, The Argus reports.
A manager and some volunteers at the Cornerstone Community Centre in Hove have been advised by Public Health England to self-isolate after the man attended a yoga class.
The man visited the centre last week to go to a runners yoga class.
People are very concerned about the lack of clear information from the NHS about this man’s movements.
