Between March 12 and March 18, the 12 hardest-hit countries in Europe diagnosed more than 53,000 new cases of the coronavirus between them. As it stands, the number of UK cases has doubled in just three days – it was 1,372 on Sunday, March 15, and 2,626 by yesterday, Wednesday March 16. The internal memo obtained by the Mail states: 'Clive made it very clear that at present we should not be testing staff for Covid-19. It said NHS England 'does not want to introduce inequity in the system where some Trusts are testing staff and others not or not able'. A spokesman for King's College Hospital said: 'We are in the process of reviewing staff testing.'

Source: Daily Mail March 19, 2020 21:13 UTC