coronavirus victim may be a STUDENT at University of York as health bosses attempt to get in-tuned anyone who has are available close contact with them or their infected relative
The student had been staying with a member of her family at a budget York hotel
Both were taken to hospital from Staycity apartment-hotel on Wednesday night
Health chiefs on Friday confirmed that that they had both tested positive for the virus
The are now being treated at a specialist unit in Newcastle following diagnosis
One of the primary two people to check positive for coronavirus within the UK may be a student at the University of York, it's been revealed - as health bosses desperately attempt to get in-tuned with anyone who has inherit close contact with the pair.
The pair - two members of an equivalent family - are being treated at a specialist unit in Newcastle. that they had checked in to the Staycity apartment-hotel in York on Wednesday and were taken to hospital that evening.
Health chiefs confirmed on Friday that that they had tested positive for the virus - which has killed 259 people in China.
In a statement today, a spokesman for the university said the danger of the infection being passed on to people on campus is low. But he couldn't fully confirm whether the scholar had inherit contact with anybody on campus while that they had symptoms.
One of the primary two people to check positive for coronavirus within the UK may be a student at the University of York
In a statement on Saturday a spokesman for the university said the danger of the infection being passed on to people on campus is low
The pair - two members of an equivalent family - are being treated at a specialist unit in Newcastle +8
The pair - two members of an equivalent family - are being treated at a specialist unit in Newcastle
He said: 'We understand this development will cause concern and anxiety among our students, staff, and therefore the wider community.
'PHE (Public Health England) has advised us that the danger of infection being passed to others on campus is low.
'Current information from PHE suggests that the scholar didn't inherit contact with anybody on campus whilst that they had symptoms, but investigations are ongoing to completely establish this.
'Our immediate concerns are for the affected student and family, along side the health and continued wellbeing of our staff, students and visitors.'
The hotel firm has said the apartment involved has been thoroughly disinfected and PHE has been providing support.
The two patients are being treated by Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in its specialist Airborne High Consequences communicable disease Centre (HCID).
Professor Sharon Peacock said PHE is contacting people that had close contact - defined as being within two metres of the infected person for quarter-hour - with the pair.
It comes after dramatic footage emerged yesterday showing medics in hazmat suits entering the budget Staycity hotel in York where two Chinese tourists fell ill.
It is believed the medics were deployed to the hotel as a part of a cranked-up manhunt to seek out anyone who came into contact with the 2 coronavirus patients.
Separately, the Department of Health confirmed it had been still trying to contact 438 travellers who have arrived here from Wuhan within the past three weeks.
An appeal went out in the week urging them to self-isolate for 14 days.
The hotel remained open on Friday because officials reportedly refused to inform the owners their guests were the coronavirus patients.
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