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Boris Johnson has said coronavirus is likely to “spread a bit more” in the UK on a visit to Public Health England.

The PM said the Government were considering banning “very big public events” on his trip to Colindale on Sunday to discuss containing the outbreak.

It comes as 15 new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in the UK over the weekend.

Meanwhile, the Foreign Office has confirmed that non-essential staff and dependants are to be pulled out of the British Embassy in Tehran, as Iran battles one of the worst outbreaks outside China.

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