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For any copyright, please send me a message. Boris Johnson has warned there will be "a substantial period of disruption" due to a coronavirus outbreak in the UK. As he announced the government is ploughing an extra £46m into efforts to combat coronavirus, the prime minister admitted a need to be "realistic" about the effects of COVID-19. "It looks to me as though there will be a substantial period of disruption when we have to deal with this outbreak," he said. "How big that will be, how long that will be, I think, is still an open question. "But, clearly, it is something we are going to have to deal with for quite a while in the UK." Mr Johnson visited a research laboratory in Bedfordshire on Friday to meet scientists working on ways to diagnose those suffering from COVID-19, the disease that develops from coronavirus, much faster. The new government cash, which will also be spent on helping to develop a vaccine, is coming from the UK's multi-billion pound foreign aid budget. Listen to "Coronavirus: Has globalisation gone too far?" on Spreaker. :: Listen to All Out Politics on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Spreaker However, it comes after the government's chief scientific adviser claimed a working coronavirus vaccine would not be produced in time for the current outbreak. "I don't think we will get the vaccine for this outbreak," Sir Patrick Vallance told the BBC. "I don't think we'll get something in time or at scale for this outbreak." Latest figures show there have been 163 cases of COVID-19 in the UK, with an increase of 47 announced on Friday. A second person in the UK is believed to have died from coronavirus, according to reports on Friday. The prime minister said developing a vaccine or rapid test for the virus would be "life changing and life saving". The UK has now invested £65m into research for a COVID-19 vaccine, while Mr Johnson said investment was also being made into drugs to help prevent the transmission of coronavirus from person to person. "If we can get a test kit, of the kind they are producing here in the next few months, in a realistic timescale... if we can get a vaccine as well, then humanity is going to push back the legions of disease thanks to breakthroughs taking place here," Mr Johnson added. The work by Mologic scientists in Bedfordshire is aimed at allowing health workers, or even people themselves at home, to identify COVID-19 quickly without relying on specialist facilities. It is hoped this will allow those infected to be treated more quickly, as well as reducing the risk of them passing the virus on to others. The development of a rapid test will also help poorer countries that are currently not able to diagnose COVID-19 at all. Around one-third o
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