The following guidance has been sent to us to circulate by the Public Health Service at Hertfordshire County Council
On the 31st of December 2019, the World Health Organisation was informed of a cluster of cases of pneumonia of unknown cause detected in Wuhan City, China. The cause is now identified as a Coronavirus, one of the families of viruses, which caused the SARS (Serious Acute Respiratory Syndrome) outbreak in 2002-2003 across the world. These viruses are fairly common and usually mild.