The coronavirus “super-spreader” is a scout leader from Brighton who is feared to have infected at least 11 people in a fortnight before he showed any symptoms.
Steve Walsh, 53, was named yesterday as the businessman who picked up the disease at a conference in Singapore last month and came home to Hove via a skiing holiday in the Alps.
It is thought that Mr Walsh, who has two children and is in an isolation unit at St Thomas’ Hospital in central London, came into contact with hundreds of people on his return to Britain and is the source of all but two of the eight cases here.
In a statement Mr Walsh, an assistant cub scout leader at the 3rd Hove (St Leonard’s) Scout
