Coronavirus declared 'serious and imminent threat' to UK

UK health secretary Matt Hancock has this morning announced that the spread of coronavirus is a "serious and imminent threat" to the British public. A Department of Health statement said: "The Secretary of State has made regulations to ensure that the public are protected as far as possible from the transmission of the virus. "The Secretary of State declares that the incidence or transmission of novel Coronavirus constitutes a serious and imminent threat to public health, and the measures outlined in these regulations are considered as an effective means of delaying or preventing furt...