According to Dr. Aaron Miller (no relation to this author), the chief medical officer of the (U.S.) National Multiple Sclerosis Society and a professor of neurology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, the number of deaths is within the range expected in the general population but the situation requires further analysis.

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Doctors insist the risk of the new coronavirus spreading to the general UK population is "extremely low" and the situation is being closely monitored.

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