Fifty migrants who have recently arrived in the UK have been diagnosed with diphtheria, the immigration minister has revealed.
Robert Jenrick told MPs that the number has increased from just four cases on 1 November, when he first gave an update.
He said the UK Health Security Agency found the cases, which were across different asylum accommodations, had developed before the migrants had entered the UK. "It's important to emphasise that the UKHSA has been clear that the risk to the wider UK population from onward transmission of diphtheria is very low, thanks in no small part to our excellent childhood immunisation programme," he told the Commons.at the Manston processing centre in Kent have been vaccinated against diphtheria before they were moved to further accommodation.
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