Hand sanitisers have been provided to racegoers at the Cheltenham FestivalCoronavirus cases in Britain will soon peak in the same way as China, the deputy chief medical officer said this morning. As the government steps up the fight against Covid-19, officials said that they will shortly advise everyone with minor coughs and colds to stay at home for a week. Jenny Harries, the deputy chief medical officer, told Today on BBC Radio 4: “If you have a new disease, the normal thing is, it will take off gradually. It will rise very rapidly at one point and come back down again when it effectively runs out of people in the population to infect.”Asked about the number of new cases compared to China in the past 24 hours, she said: “China is in a very

Source: The Times March 10, 2020 12:11 UTC