Coronavirus: Evacuation aircraft from China land in UK as expert warns countries face ‘major outbreak’ | The independent ࢀ" Escort in London City

The latest evacuation from the coronavirus-affected Chinese city of Wuhan has landed in Britain, when a leading microbiologist who helped discover that Ebola warned that Britain could suffer a “major outbreak” of the virus. Professor Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, saidhe was concerned about the spread of the disease, which he warned was potentially more dangerous than Ebola. “There is a greater threat due to the mode of transmission. The potential for spread is much, much higher,” said Piot. “If the number of people infected is large, it will also kill a number…