Health Protection Agency (HPA) has asked to contact authorities if anybody who travelled to China in the past 14 days are experiencing symptoms of novel coronavirus.
HPA has advised to contact immediately if anybody who travelled to China in the past two weeks are experiencing fever, cough, bleeding from nose or difficulty in breathing.
While scientists are working to seek a treatment for the coronavirus, several new information have been released. According to scientists, once someone get infected with coronavirus, it may take up 2 to 14 days to show symptoms.
World Health Organization (WHO) said the coronavirus is thought to have originally been transmitted from an animal to a human, though health officials have not yet been able to identify which kind of animal sparked the outbreak. Since then, WHO officials have confirmed the virus can be transmitted between humans.
Coronavirus typically affect the respiratory tract of mammals, including humans. The virus is associated with common cold, pneumonia, and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).
Coronavirus can spread from coughing and sneezing without covering the mouth, touching or shaking hands with a person that has the virus and making contact with a surface or object that has the virus and then touching nose, eyes, or mouth.