THE TIMES: Does the UK outbreak have an ‘epicentre’?

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London appears to be ahead of the rest of the country by about a week. However, it is not an “epicentre” in the same way that Wuhan was in China, according to Thomas House at the University of Manchester. That London had been hit first was no surprise, he said, as this had been the case with epidemics through history. There was a chance that the virus would spread in three “pulses”, Dr House said — London first, followed by other cities and then rural areas.