Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

The highly infectious variant of coronavirus that has emerged in
south-east England is spreading rapidly to the rest of the UK and is
already present elsewhere in the world, scientists warned on Sunday.
https://on.ft.com/3rawfhX

I’d argue the general public would be more responsible if this was consistently reported as “…is being spread…” or something like that.