Coronavirus may have been spreading in UK from December before it was detected

'Coronavirus may have been spreading across UK from December for two months before it was detected'

It comes as it emerged the World Health Organisation struggled to obtain information from China during the crucial early days of the pandemic.

Epidemiologist professor Tim Spector said: "The reports I am getting are from people who were ill from early January onwards and strongly suggest they had Covid-19 but were not recognised as such." Catherine Mayer, the widow of Gang of Four guitarist Andy Gill, fears her husband died of coronavirus shortly after returning from a tour of Asia.

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