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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nicholas Cecil

Don’t go to Christmas parties with flu-like symptoms to avoid spreading super-virus, says London NHS chief

Londoners were urged by the capital’s NHS chief to forgo Christmas parties if they have flu-like symptoms to stop the super-virus gripping the city from spreading.

In an interview with the Standard, Dr Chris Streather, the capital’s NHS medical director, stressed that people should make it clear to colleagues, friends and family that it is “anti-social” to turn up to social dos coughing and sneezing.

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