I've just had a China virus test at my local hospital in preparation for surgery later in the week.

Hospital car-park was emptier than I've ever seen it, there was no queue to get to the drive-through testing area. The other hospital (the one that's doing the surgery) was also virtually deserted when I went for a pre-assessment last week.

Definitely no signs of a pandemic here in NE England.

As a side-note, the test was extremely invasive and unpleasant. Just hoping now that the testing kit wasn't one of the contaminated Chinese ones.