"Plan But Don’t Panic": What Can You Do To Prevent The Spread Of Coronavirus?

Londoners and businesses should be making ‘contingency plans’ for a Coronavirus outbreak, but do not yet need to implement them, an infectious disease expert tells the Evening Standard. Professor Azra Ghani’s advice comes after Chevron shuts its London office, and 14 schools across the UK close, from fear of spreading the respiratory infection. ‘In London, at the current time, we don’t have reported cases,’ says Professor Ghani. ‘Any interventions have to be appropriate to the level of risk we’re seeing at that time and to the impact this has on people’s lives.’