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		</div><p>More than 3,000 people in UK have been tested for the coronavirus but there have been no new positive results, officials say.</p>
<p>The UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said today that 3,109 tests have been carried out in the UK so far, with nine positive results.</p>
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<p>This is an increase of 117 tests on the 2,992 reported on Saturday.</p>
<p>The number of positive tests remains at nine, with eight of those patients now discharged from hospital after recording two negative tests for the strain known as Covid-19.</p>
<p>But “millions” of Britons with flu-like symptoms could be told by authorities to “self-isolate” by staying at home for a fortnight if the UK’s number of confirmed cases passes 100, the Sunday Telegraph has reported.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">UPDATE on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/coronavirus?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#coronavirus</a> testing in the UK:</p>
<p>As of 2pm on Sunday 16 February 2020, a total of 3109 tests have concluded:</p>
<p>3100 were confirmed negative.<br />9 positive.</p>
<p>Updates will be published at 2pm daily.</p>
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<p>&mdash; Department of Health and Social Care (@DHSCgovuk) <a href="https://twitter.com/DHSCgovuk/status/1229042751100063744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 16, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>he paper said that senior NHS managers have been told that the service will stop testing for Covid-19 “once around 100 cases have been confirmed” across Britain.</p>
<p>In the last week hospitals have created “isolation pods” to keep those being tested away from other patients, it added.</p>
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<p>If the number of cases rises significantly those with coughs and colds may be asked to stay home to limit the chance of the outbreak spreading.</p>
<p>The DHSC did not comment when asked about the self-isolation direction.</p>
<p>NHS England said on Saturday that all 94 people in quarantine at Arrowe Park Hospital on the Wirral had been released.</p>
<p>They had been kept in isolation at the hospital after returning to the UK from Wuhan in China – the centre of the outbreak.</p>
<p>More than 100 people remain in isolation at the Kents Hill Park Hotel in Milton Keynes after being on a later rescue flight, the NHS added.</p>
<p>Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: “I am also pleased that eight of the nine individuals who tested positive for coronavirus have now been successfully treated and discharged from hospital.</p>
<p>“I want to stress that any individuals who are discharged from hospital are now well and do not pose any public health risk to the public.”</p>
<p>“Again, this is evidence of how well prepared our NHS is to deal with the Wuhan coronavirus.”</p>
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<p>Britons on board the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan have said they fear being stuck in isolation beyond the initial February 19 deadline.</p>
<p>So far 355 of the 3,500 people on board the ship moored at Yokohama Port near Tokyo have tested positive for the virus.</p>
<p>Princess Cruises president Jan Swartz said that Japanese officials may extend the quarantine for guests who have shared cabins with someone who has tested positive for the virus.</p>
<p>She added: “We also now understand the Japanese may handle a select group of guests differently, anyone who had close contact with a person who tested positive – such as a cabin mate – may have to restart their quarantine from the date their close contact ended.”</p>
<p>But Briton David Abel said on Sunday that passengers had heard they could be stuck on board for up to two months.</p>
<p>In a video on YouTube Mr Abel added: “To cut a long story short we could be here another month, not two weeks extra.</p>
<p>“We could be here for six, seven, eight weeks, that’s what we’ve heard.”</p>
<p>The first death from the virus outside Asia was confirmed in France on Saturday.</p>
<p>French Health Minister Agnes Buzyn said an elderly Chinese tourist had become the first death to the virus in Europe, Reuters reported.</p>
<p>The patient, a Chinese tourist from the province of Hubei that includes Wuhan, had arrived in France on January 16 and suffered a lung infection caused by the virus.</p>
<p>The death toll in mainland China has risen by 142 to 1,665.</p>
<p>Chinese authorities also reported the number of new cases has fallen for the third straight day to 2,009.</p>
<p>The number of people infected globally stands at 68,500, according to the country’s National Health Commission.</p>
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