French Health Minister Agnes Buzyn said the new cases included a child. She said the patients were not in a serious condition. The total number of people infected with the virus in France has now reached 11. Ms Buzyn said the group of newly-infected people with the virus formed “a cluster, a grouping around one original case.”

She said: ”That original case was brought to our attention last night, it is a British national who had returned from Singapore where he had stayed between January 20 and 23, and he arrived in France on January 24 for four days.”

The latest outbreak had occurred in the mountainous Alpine region of Savoie in southeastern France.

The coronavirus crisis is deepening with the death toll in mainland China rising to 722 overnight while new cases jumped to 34,546.

Britain’s Department of Health and Social Care said that 620 people in the UK had been tested for coronavirus with three cases confirmed.

It is understood that the third person in the UK to be diagnosed with coronavirus also caught the illness in Singapore.

He is reported to be a middle-aged British man and is understood to be the first UK national to contract the disease.

The man is thought to have been diagnosed in Brighton and was transferred to St Thomas’ Hospital in London, where there is an infectious diseases unit, on Thursday afternoon.

Two other patients, who had recently travelled from China, are still being treated at the Royal Victoria Infirmary infectious diseases centre in Newcastle.

One is a student at the University of York, while the other is a family member.

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