Coronavirus: GP surgery in Brighton shut down after staff member tests positive
The County Oak Medical Centre has been closed by the NHS on the same day it emerged that four people in Brighton, including a doctor, had contracted coronavirus
A GP practice has been forced to close after a staff member tested positive for
coronavirus, it is reported.
The County Oak Medical Centre in Brighton has been closed by the NHS in the latest scare to hit the East Sussex city.
Earlier today, it emerged that four people in Brighton, including a doctor, had caught the flu-like illness during a recent trip to France, doubling the total number of UK cases to eight.
Those four cases are linked to a middle-aged Brighton man - dubbed a "super spreader" - who caught the potentially deadly bug while attending a business conference in Singapore between January 20 and 23.
A note hanging in the window at the County Oak Medical Centre in Brighton
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The infected man then stayed at a ski chalet in Les Contamines-Montjoie in the French Alps - where the virus was passed on to at least 11 others - between January 24 and 28, the day he returned to the UK on an easyJet flight from Geneva.
Health officials are now urgently trying to trace and warn people who had contact with the infected Britons, including people who attended the GP surgery in Brighton and travellers on the flight from Geneva on January 28.
A staff member at the County Oak Medical Centre, located near to a primary school, was among the latest to be diagnosed with coronavirus, the
BBC reported.
A GP at the County Oak Medical Centre has tested positive for coronavirus
Callers are greeted with a voice recording saying: "Unfortunately the building has had to close due to an urgent operational health and safety reason."
They are advised to call NHS 111 if they have any concerns.
A note hanging in a window reads "Closed due to operational difficulties".
The "super spreader" who caught the flu-like bug in Singapore has now been linked to at least 11 other Britons who have tested positive.
They all had contact with the man in the French ski resort.
Of the 11, four adults and a nine-year-old boy were confirmed to be carriers on Saturday following tests in France, where they were being treated in hospital.
A person who had since returned to the UK was in isolation at the Royal Free Hospital in London after their case was confirmed on Sunday.
A British dad who lives in Majorca was in hospital on the Spanish island after testing positive there following a trip to France.