Britain’s coronavirus cases came mainly from Europe, not China

Many of Britain’s early cases in the coronavirus pandemic were imported from Europe – most likely Italy and Spain – rather than China, according to the British government’s chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance.“Early in March the UK got many, many different imports of virus from many different places, and those places were particularly from European countries with outbreaks,” Vallance told the parliament’s health and social care committee on Tuesday. The genomics of the virus at that time…

from South China Morning Post https://bit.ly/2W86kK8