Seventeen people have now died from the illness and more than 541 have been infected, with cases detected in countries including the US, Japan, South Korea, Macao and Taiwan. A "separate area" in Heathrow Airport has been set up to process visitors who had visited the Hubei province of China, the area where the disease if thought to have originated.
But how worried should we be about the potential spread of the virus?
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