A patient in London has been diagnosed with the potentially life-threatening coronavirus this evening, officials reports.
This is the first case to be confirmed in our capital as the death toll has risen to more than 1,000.
The victim is said to be a Chinese national who was diagnosed yesterday afternoon, a City Hall source told The Sun.
While a Department for Health and Social Care spokesman said he was unable to comment on individual cases, and would not confirm the diagnosis.
If the report is correct, they will be the ninth person in the UK to be diagnosed with coronavirus.
It was announced earlier that all 83 people in quarantine in a British hospital were told they have tested negative for coronavirus.
The Brits, who were flown back from China and taken in coaches to Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral, Merseyside, will now leave the facility immently.
They've stayed in the accommodation for the past fortnight, reports the Mirror.
Officials are still desperately attempting to trace 12 patients who were treated by two GPs - one of whom is Catriona Greenwood - who have tested positive for coronavirus.
Between them, the two doctors worked in four different places in East and West Sussex - a nursing home, an A&E department and two GP practices.
The pair are now in isolation, and efforts to trace those that came into contact with them are ongoing.
Elsewhere, two prisoners in a UK jail were tested negative for the disease today.
And a British man who unknowingly spread coronavirus to at least 11 people has been discharged from hospital after making a full recovery.
Businessman Steve Walsh, the man at the centre of a UK outbreak of Covid-19, is no longer contagious, NHS strategic incident director Professor Keith Willett said.
Speaking yesterday before he was discharged f Mr Walsh, 53, said his thoughts are with others who have contracted the virus.
Mr Walsh, from Hove near Brighton, who works for a firm providing gas analysis equipment, caught the virus in Singapore and is thought to have infected 11 others at a French ski resort he visited on his return from the city-state financial state.
Five of the cases linked to Mr Walsh are in England, five are in France and one is in Majorca, Spain.
The bug has killed more than 1,100 people worldwide with the vast majority in China, where it originated.
