VIRUS WARNING Coronavirus in Scotland from buzai232's blog

The local newsagent said he is trying to help the community of Chinese students after surrounding pharmacies sold out.To get more news about coronavirus taglines, you can visit shine news official website.

And he has already been overwhelmed by buyers who are desperate to ship the surgery-grade masks to loved ones caught up in the coronavirus lockdown back home - selling 2000 in less than 48 hours.

He told the Scottish Sun Online: "We only got them in on Thursday night.My first customer bought six box to send back to China. They're on a flight already."

"Most of my sales have been people to send back to China because they're housebound."

One tearful girl told staff she was "worried about her granny" as she snapped up two boxes.It comes as Scotland's chief medical officer warned a positive case of the deadly virus in Scotland is "highly likely" to be confirmed within days.

Posters outside the shop tell customers the masks are being sold as "extra protection - but warned "don't die, please buy".

The shopkeer added: "Some of my posters are quite bold, but I've got a mixture of my customers wearing them.I asked customers if it puts them off, me wearing one, but they said it's fine and understand how many Chinese students we get in.

"Its just another preventative measure, but I wanted to help."

We told earlier how a York student has been confirmed as one of the people infected with coronavirus in the UK.

Two patients were struck down with the killer bug after staying at a York hotel.

The pair, thought to be Chinese, fell ill at the Staycity aparthotel in the city centre on Wednesday.And today the university has confirmed one of them is currently studying with them, as the University of Derby is isolating students who have come back from Wuhan for 14 days.

Official figures released this afternoon showed a total of 203 UK tests have concluded, of which 2 were found to be positive.

A desperate hunt is on to find 438 people who flew in to the UK from coronavirus epicentre Wuhan before travel was locked down.Authorities are now desperately scrambling to contain the spiralling epidemic with fears almost 2,000 could be infected in the country.