UK's coronavirus outbreak may overtake Italy and France

Although the Queen motivated the British to face the coronavirus outbreak with resilience in her nationwide address, the statistics show a worrisome trend and experts fear that UK may overtake Italy and France in number of patients and fatalities too.

Daily Mail reports that worrying graphic suggests that three weeks since Britain hit 50 deaths it is in danger of being in a worse state than 'Europe's epicentre' was at the same point.

In the last 24 hours, number of UK  deaths by 621 to 4,934 today, including 29 patients without any underlying health conditions and the level of infections has risen sharply by almost 60 per cent, from 5,903 to 47,806 - the largest daily increase.

The Department of Health also said that, as of 9 am on Sunday, a total of 195,524 people have been tested, up from 183,190 the previous day - pushing the amount of tests done daily to more than 12,000.

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WHO issues Measles Warning to Europe

[ BBC Health ] 2 Dec

WHO cautions European countries against spread of measles and has asked them to act now to tackle measles outbreaks.

The WHO report says there were over 26,000 measles cases in 36 European countries from January to October 2011. Already, Western European countries reported 83% of those cases, with 14,000 in France alone.

In England and Wales, there were just under 1,000 confirmed measles cases in that period - compared with just 374 in the whole of 2010.

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