Five people are being tested for the coronavirus in Scotland and an incident team has been set up to deal with the threat of the virus in the country, a report said.

Three of the people being tested are believed to be Chinese nationals, the BBC reported. All of the patients have respiratory symptoms and had recently traveled to the Wuhan section of China, where the virus originated, according to the report.

At least 25 people in China have been killed by the virus and 830 have been infected, according to Chinese officials. On Thursday, the country confirmed the first death outside of the epicenter of the outbreak in Wuhan, when an 80-year-old died in the northern province of Hebei.

Three of the people being tested in Scotland were reported in Edinburgh and a fourth is believed to be in Glasgow, according to the BBC.

One of the patients being tested is believed to be a college student at the University of Edinburgh.

A spokesperson for the Scottish government told the BBC the risk to the public remains low, but the head of infection medicine at Edinburgh University said there will likely be confirmed cases in the UK.

“In any European countries there is a danger that these cases occur,” Prof. Juergen Haas told the BBC.

“Here at the University of Edinburgh we have more than 2,000 students from China and they are always coming and going back to China so we are relatively sure we will have cases in the UK from travelers coming back from China,” he added.

With Post Wires