A UK resident has contracted a potentially fatal Sars-like virus, health experts have confirmed.
The person, who recently travelled to the Middle East and Pakistan, is being treated in an intensive care unit at a Manchester hospital after becoming infected with a new type of coronavirus, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) said.
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