A prisoner who had been transferred from a jail in Thailand and is being tested for coronavirus has been named as Mark John Rumble, a suspected drug lord.
Thai authorities confirmed the identity of the 31-year-old, who was brought back to the UK on a flight two weeks ago.
Mark Rumble, 31, of Oxfordshire, was sent back to the United Kingdom to face charges of a conspiracy to supply class A drugs.
As Rumble and another prisoner were being tested, a British honeymooner who was removed from the Diamond Princess cruise ship over coronavirus fears has said his first test for the virus was negative.
Eight people in the UK have been confirmed as having COVID-19, with the last four testing positive on Monday.
They are linked to Hove businessman Steve Walsh, who is believed to be a “superspreader” after 11 people he stayed in a French chalet with contracted the virus after he was infected in Singapore.
Meanwhile, WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the first vaccine could be ready in 18 months “so we have to do everything today using available weapons to fight this virus”.
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