LONDON, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Two of the new coronavirus cases
in Britain announced on Monday are healthcare workers, Public
Health England said.
Earlier, Britain said the number of confirmed coronavirus
cases had doubled to eight as the government declared the virus
a serious and imminent threat, giving it additional powers to
isolate those suspected of being infected.
"We are now working urgently to identify all patients and
other healthcare workers who may have come into close contact,
and at this stage we believe this to be a relatively small
number," Public Health England Medical Director Yvonne Doyle
said in a statement.
(Reporting by Kylie MacLellan and Elizabeth Howcroft, editing
by Elizabeth Piper)