CORONAVIRUS: how worried should we be? What we know so far | Dr Sarah Nicholls

The new coronavirus that has emerged from Wuhan in China has been hitting the news headlines for being a new deadly strain of virus. But what is a coronavirus? And how bad is it? Should we be worried? How is coronavirus passed on? How do you get infected by it?

Hopefully this video will give you some basic facts about the coronavirus and whether people in the UK should be concerned.

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