Coronavirus: Reporter begins quarantine at home after visiting infected zone - BBC News
The BBC's Stephen McDonell has returned to his home in Beijing after visiting the Hubei province - the centre of the coronavirus outbreak.
He, like others who have been to the Chinese city of Wuhan and its surrounding area, is expected to stay away from his workplace for two weeks.
As evacuations of foreign nationals take place, he describes how even the capital feels deserted.
Hundreds of foreign nationals are being evacuated from Wuhan, the centre of China's coronavirus outbreak, as more deaths and cases are confirmed.
Hundreds of British citizens being flown back to the UK from Wuhan on Thursday will be put in quarantine for two weeks.
It comes as British Airways suspends all direct flights to and from mainland China because of the coronavirus outbreak.
Australia, Japan, the US and EU nations are also repatriating citizens.
The virus has caused more than 130 deaths, spreading across China and to at least 16 other countries.
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World on alert as novel coronavirus started from Wuhan spreads across the countires
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Now, there's a new warning from the U.S. State Department, urging Americans to reconsider travel to China as this emergency grows.
And other countries are reporting more confirmed cases... raising fears over the deadly virus.
Choi Jeong-yoon reports.
The world is on edge as the novel coronavirus breaches more national borders and governments are taking tough countermeasures to protect their nationals.
At least 17 countries and territorial entities outside mainland China have now reported confirmed cases.
The epidemic is spreading fast internationally,...with Thailand's number of confirmed cases now standing at 14.
With the most confirmed patients outside of China,... Bangkok has unveiled plans to screen all arrivals from China for symptoms of the coronavirus.
Hong Kong has at least eight confirmed cases.
Hong Kong on Tuesday announced plans to restrict cross-border travel between the city and mainland China.
The deadly virus is also hitting Europe.
France on Tuesday confirmed its 4th case in an elderly Chinese tourist.
France's Health Ministry said the patient, who is hospitalized in Paris, is about 80 years old and gravely ill.
Concerns are spiking as the possibility of human-to-human transmission of the virus is becoming more and more of a likelihood.
Japan and Germany have both confirmed cases in patients who have never been to Wuhan, the epicenter of the virus.
Japan has at least 7 confirmed cases,... and the first confirmed patient a male bus driver in his 60s has never visited Wuhan, but drove two groups of Chinese tourists from Wuhan earlier this month.
Germany is up to at least 4 confirmed patients,... and the country's first confirmed patient a 33-year old German male did not visit China, but was in a meeting with a Chinese female,... who later turned out to be infected.
The virus has also spread to North America,... Canada has confirmed its third case in a man in his 40s who visited Wuhan.
In the U.S., at least 5 people have been diagnosed with the coronavirus, all of whom recently traveled to the Chinese city.
As a countermeasure, White House officials say they are considering suspending flights to and from China and has issued a level four warning against traveling to Wuhan...as well as warning people to avoid non-essential travel to any part of China.
The U.S. also wants Beijing to be more transparent.
We are urging China more cooperation and transparency are the most important steps you can take toward a more effective response. Beyond that, all options for dealing with infectious disease spread have to be on the table, including travel restrictions.
The U.S. also said it will expand screening of travelers arriving from Wuhan to 20 airports and land crossings,... points of entry that account for up to 90 percent of incoming visitors from China.
Choi Jeong-yoon, Arirang News.
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World on alert as novel coronavirus started from Wuhan spreads across the countires
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The United States is warning its citizens not to travel to China, and its even considering a ban on flights to the country.
The number of infections in other countries is rising quickly as well.
Choi Jeong-yoon reports.
The world is on edge as the novel coronavirus breaches more national borders and governments are taking tough countermeasures to protect their nationals.
At least 18 countries and territorial entities outside mainland China have now reported confirmed cases.
The epidemic is spreading fast internationally,...with the United Arab Emirates seeing its first confirmed case.
Although the exact number of infected persons in the Middle East remains uncertain, the family from Wuhan is the first confirmed case in the region.
With the most confirmed patients outside of China,...Thailand's number of confirmed cases now stands at 14.
Bangkok has unveiled plans to screen all arrivals from China for symptoms of the coronavirus.
Hong Kong has at least eight confirmed cases and announced plans on Tuesday to restrict cross-border travel between the city and mainland China.
The deadly virus is also hitting Europe.
France on Tuesday confirmed its 4th case in an elderly Chinese tourist.
France's Health Ministry said the patient, who is hospitalized in Paris, is about 80 years old and gravely ill.
Concerns are spiking as the possibility of human-to-human transmission of the virus is becoming more and more of a likelihood.
Japan and Germany have both confirmed cases in patients who have never been to Wuhan, the epicenter of the virus.
Japan has at least 7 confirmed cases,... and the first confirmed patient a male bus driver in his 60s has never visited Wuhan, but drove two groups of Chinese tourists from Wuhan earlier this month.
Germany is up to at least 4 confirmed patients,... and the country's first confirmed patient a 33-year old German male did not visit China, but was in a meeting with a Chinese female,... who later turned out to be infected.
The virus has also spread to North America,... Canada has confirmed its third case in a man in his 40s who visited Wuhan.
In the U.S., at least 5 people have been diagnosed with the coronavirus, all of whom recently traveled to the Chinese city.
As a countermeasure, White House officials say they are considering suspending flights to and from China and has issued a level four warning against traveling to Wuhan...as well as warning people to avoid non-essential travel to any part of China.
The U.S. also wants Beijing to be more transparent.
We are urging China more cooperation and transparency are the most important steps you can take toward a more effective response. Beyond that, all options for dealing with infectious disease spread have to be on the table, including travel restrictions.
The U.S. also said it will expand screening of travelers arriving from Wuhan to 20 airports and land crossings,... points of entry that account for up to 90 percent of incoming visitors from China.
Choi Jeong-yoon, Arirang News.
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Coronavirus: Australian scientists first to recreate virus outside China - BBC News
Hundreds of foreign nationals are being evacuated from Wuhan, the centre of China's coronavirus outbreak, as more deaths and cases were confirmed.
Australia plans to quarantine its evacuees on Christmas island 2,000km (1,200 miles) from the mainland.
Japan, the US and the EU are also repatriating their citizens.
British Airways has suspended all flights to and from mainland China, as the UK's Foreign Office warned against all but essential travel there.
Several other airlines have taken similar measures. United Airlines and Cathay Pacific are restricting flights, while Lion Air - one of the region's biggest airlines - is stopping flights to China from Saturday.
Cathay Pacific has also suspended inflight trolley services, changed some aspects of its meal offer, and stopped giving out hot towels, pillows, blankets and magazines in an effort to prevent the virus spreading.
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Coronavirus death toll rises to 106; countries scramble to minimize damage
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The novel coronavirus is spreading quickly, keeping governments across the world on edge.
More than 45-hundred cases have been confirmed in China, with at least 1-hundred- and-6 deaths reported.
Our Kan Hyeong-woo is on the line with the latest.
Hyeong-woo please fill us in.
Right. So the new type of coronavirus that first appeared in Wuhan late last month continues to claim more victims.
China's National Health Commission said on Tuesday,... the death toll in China has soared to 106,... and some 17 hundred new cases have been confirmed compared to the day before.
Among the confirmed cases, about one thousand patients are in critical condition.
This brings the total number of confirmed cases in China to around 4 thousand 5 hundred...and more than half of them are in Wuhan.
Chinese officials added that 60 people have been cured and discharged.
Beijing and Shanghai could not dodge the bullet...with both cities reporting their first deaths from the virus.
A 50-year old man died of respiratory failure in Beijing on Monday.
Health officials said he was diagnosed with the novel coronavirus last week after staying in Wuhan from January 8th to 15th.
Authorities in Shanghai have not released details of the victim.
The Chinese government has urged its people to postpone non-essential overseas trips.
The virus has spread to other parts of the world.
What do we know so far about its impact, and what are countries doing to minimize the damage?
Yes, the virus is popping up across the world.
So far, there have been at least 68 confirmed cases in 17 countries and territorial entities outside of mainland China.
But the good news is that there have been no deaths from the coronavirus reported in these other locations.
Earlier today,...Japan reported two more cases of the new virus.
One of them is a male bus driver in his 60s who has never been to Wuhan.
According to the Japanese Health Ministry,...he drove two groups of Chinese tourists from Wuhan earlier this month.
Thailand also confirmed six more cases...bringing the total number of infected people in the country to 14.
That is the most in a country or territory outside of China.
Hong Kong has also been hit hard...with eight confirmed cases so far.
The Hong Kong government is waiving medical treatment fees for all patients suspected of being infected by the new coronavirus.
Its Chief Executive Carrie Lam said a few hours ago that Hong Kong will temporarily shut down some of its borders with mainland China...starting midnight on Thursday local time.
The virus has also spread to North America...with at least 5 confirmed cases reported in the United States.
The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention has raised its travel precautions for China to the highest of its three levels.
Europe is also preparing for tougher prevention measures.
Germany has confirmed its first case.
The patient has been identified as a 33-year old German male.
Although he did not visit China, he was in a meeting with a female Chinese national last week.
She has since gone to Beijing and there tested positive for the coronavirus.
Germany is the second country to have confirmed the virus in Europe,...following France, which has confirmed at least three cases so far.
The South Korean, Japanese, American and French governments are sending charter planes this week to repatriate their citizens stuck in Wuhan.
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First plane of Japanese evacuees returns from Wuhan
China's neighbor Japan is working to protect its citizens and ensure public health security. A plane has landed back in Japan, after taking hundreds of citizens home from Wuhan. Four of the evacuees are under observation, after running a fever and showing symptoms of respiratory infections.
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How the coronavirus affects air travel: Association of Flight Attendants president
Sara Nelson, international president of the Association of Flight Attendants, joins Squawk Box to discuss how the outbreak of the coronavirus is impacting airlines around the world.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is telling Americans to avoid all nonessential travel to China, expanding its travel warning from the city of Wuhan to the entire country as the coronavirus outbreak worsens, the agency said Tuesday.
Last week, the CDC advised against all nonessential travel to Wuhan, the epicenter of the disease’s outbreak and where the majority of cases have been reported.
The U.S. Department of State on Monday also raised its travel advisory for China from Level 2 to Level 3, asking Americans to “reconsider travel to China due to the novel coronavirus.” They added that some areas have “added risk.”
Chinese health authorities said Tuesday that the virus, which was first diagnosed less than a month ago, has now killed 106 people and infected 4,515.
Scott Gottlieb, a former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner and a CNBC contributor, said he’s worried that coronavirus cases in China are actually much higher than the official numbers show.
“I think we are dramatically underestimating” cases in China by “tens of thousands,” Gottlieb told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”
Chinese authorities have quarantined several major cities in China and canceled Lunar New Year’s festivities in Beijing and other areas.
Multiple cases of the virus have been confirmed in Hong Kong, Macao, Taipei, Thailand, Vietnam, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Australia, France and the United States. There have been no confirmed deaths caused by the illness outside of China.
The CDC confirmed five cases of coronavirus in the U.S. and said Monday that U.S. health officials are currently monitoring 110 people across 26 states for the coronavirus.
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Japan, US evacuate citizens from Wuhan
The death toll from a new coronavirus in China rose sharply to 132 on Wednesday with nearly 1,500 new cases, heaping pressure on Beijing to control the disease as U.S. officials said the White House was weighing whether to suspend all flights to the country.
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We speak to a resident inside Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak
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Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, has been in lockdown since January 23. The government closed off the city of 11 million people in an attempt to contain the deadly virus which has already killed at least 80 people and infected more than 2,000.While 5 million people left the city before the lockdown, millions remain. The Post interviewed one of them and asked what it was like to be in Wuhan under lockdown.
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Coronavirus death toll rises to 106 with China taking strict measures
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We start with the latest on the new coronavirus outbreak.
The virus is spreading quickly across China and to other countries.
And for more on this, our Kan Hyeong-woo is on the line for us.
So Hyeong-woo, it looks like the death toll just keeps on rising.
Right, Devin. So the new type of coronavirus that first appeared in the Chinese city of Wuhan late last month continues to claim more victims.
China's National Health Commissions said on Tuesday,... the death toll in China has soared to 106,... and some 17 hundred new cases have been confirmed compared to the day before.
Among the confirmed cases, about one thousand patients are in critical condition.
This brings the total number of confirmed cases in China to around 4 thousand 5 hundred.
Chinese officials added that 60 people have been cured and discharged.
Beijing and Shanghai - two of China's biggest cities - could not dodge the bullet...
with both cities reporting their first deaths from the virus.
A 50-year old man died of respiratory failure in Beijing on Monday.
Health officials said he was diagnosed with the new coronavirus last week after staying in Wuhan from January 8th to 15th.
Authorities in Shanghai have not released details of the dead victim.
Alright, so the situation in China is pretty bad. But we know that the virus has spread to other parts of the world.
What do we know so far about the global damage, and what are the countries doing to minimize the damage?
Yes, the virus is popping up across the world.
So far, there have been at least 62 confirmed cases in 17 places outside of mainland China.
The good news is that there have been no deaths reported from the new coronavirus in other countries.
Hong Kong has been hit hardest... with eight confirmed cases.
The Hong Kong government is waiving medical treatment fees for all patients suspected of the new coronavirus.
Japan has found 4 confirmed cases of the virus.
Tokyo is sending a charter plane to Wuhan later tonight to repatriate its citizens stuck in the city.
Some 650 Japanese citizens have requested to return to their homeland.
The virus has also spread to North America...with at least 5 confirmed cases reported in the United States.
The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention has raised its travel precautions for China to the highest of its three levels - warning.
Europe is also preparing for tougher prevention measures.
Late on Monday, Germany confirmed its first case.
Health officials there said the male patient lives in a town some 30 kilometers southwest of Munich.
The patient is reportedly stable, but the authorities did not elaborate on how he may have been infected.
Germany is the second country to have confirmed the virus in Europe,...following France which has confirmed at least three cases so far.
That's all I have for now, but I will be back with the latest in our later newscast.
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China Spurned CDC Offer to Send Team to Help Contain Coronavirus: U.S. Health Secretary
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised travelers to avoid all non-essential trips to China as governments, companies and international health organizations rushed to contain a SARS-like coronavirus that has claimed more than 100 lives.
The agency, which is spearheading the U.S. effort to contain the virus, said that while the risk to the American public is considered low, the precautions are necessary to stop its spread.
“While it’s possible that some person-to-person spread with this virus may be detected in the United States, the goal of the ongoing U.S. public health response is to contain this outbreak and prevent sustained spread in this country,” the CDC said in a statement Tuesday.
The warning follows an advisory Monday by the State Department that Americans should reconsider travel to China.
Hong Kong earlier announced restrictions on travel from mainland China. It will close some border checkpoints and restrict flights, trains and ferries from the mainland, Chief Executive Carrie Lam said Tuesday. The Chinese government is also suspending visas for visitors to the territory, she said.
The new measures mark a step-change in efforts to contain the virus, after China effectively locked down about 50 million people in Wuhan and Hubei province, the epicenter of the outbreak. The latest moves are aimed at protecting an Asian financial hub that was already reeling from months of anti-Beijing protests.
“We have to start with the source,” Lam said at a press conference, wearing a surgical mask. “This should greatly reduce visitors from China.”
Other disruptions to global businesses, travel and the world’s second-largest economy are growing. China has extended the Lunar New Year break, while companies ranging from Starbucks Corp. to Japanese retailer Uniqlo are shutting sites.
There were about 36 passenger flights a day from China to the U.S. in the 12 months ending in July, the latest period for which information is available, said Airlines for America, a trade group. In addition, there were about 13 cargo flights a day, according to the analysis, which was based on U.S. Transportation Department data. The numbers include flights by U.S. and Chinese carriers.
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Coronavirus is having a material impact on travel: Wedbush analyst
Tom White of D.A. Davidson and James Hardiman of Wedbush join Squawk Alley to discuss how the coronavirus outbreak is affecting travel stocks.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is telling Americans to avoid all nonessential travel to China, expanding its travel warning from the city of Wuhan to the entire country as the coronavirus outbreak worsens, the agency said Tuesday.
Last week, the CDC advised against all nonessential travel to Wuhan, the epicenter of the disease’s outbreak and where the majority of cases have been reported.
The U.S. Department of State on Monday also raised its travel advisory for China from Level 2 to Level 3, asking Americans to “reconsider travel to China due to the novel coronavirus.” They added that some areas have “added risk.”
Chinese health authorities said Tuesday that the virus, which was first diagnosed less than a month ago, has now killed 106 people and infected 4,515.
Scott Gottlieb, a former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner and a CNBC contributor, said he’s worried that coronavirus cases in China are actually much higher than the official numbers show.
“I think we are dramatically underestimating” cases in China by “tens of thousands,” Gottlieb told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”
Chinese authorities have quarantined several major cities in China and canceled Lunar New Year’s festivities in Beijing and other areas.
Multiple cases of the virus have been confirmed in Hong Kong, Macao, Taipei, Thailand, Vietnam, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Australia, France and the United States. There have been no confirmed deaths caused by the illness outside of China.
The CDC confirmed five cases of coronavirus in the U.S. and said Monday that U.S. health officials are currently monitoring 110 people across 26 states for the coronavirus.
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Hong Kong is restricting cross-border travel to and from the Chinese mainland to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus. Flights, trains, and ferries will all be affected. #coronavirus
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US Secretary of Health Holds Press Conference On Response To Wuhan Coronavirus | TIME
US Secretary of Health Alex Azar holds a press conference alongside Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease (NCIRD) Director Nancy Messonnier, and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Anthony Fauci to provide further details on the Department's coordinated public health response to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus.
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U.S. 2020 Census Begins in Remote Alaskan Town
The U.S. 2020 census begins this week in rural Alaska. The first count will be conducted Tuesday in Toksook Bay, located on Nelson Island just off Alaska's western coast.
The census always starts in remote parts of the nation's largest state out of tradition and necessity. It's easier for census workers to travel on frozen ground than after the thaw.
Plus, they are likely to get more residents, who tend to leave for hunting and fishing grounds after the thaw.
The decennial U.S. census has started in rural Alaska, out of tradition and necessity, ever since the U.S. purchased the territory from Russia in 1867.
The frozen ground also allows easier access before the spring melt makes many areas inaccessible to travel and residents scatter to subsistence hunting and fishing grounds.
The mail service is spotty in rural Alaska and the internet connectivity unreliable, which makes door-to-door surveying important.
The rest of the nation, including more urban areas of Alaska, begin the census in mid-March.
Lizzie Chimiugak has lived for 90 years in the windswept western wilds of Alaska, born to a nomadic family who lived in mud homes and followed where the good hunting and fishing led.
Her home now is an outpost on the Bering Sea, Toksook Bay, and she is about to become the most well-known woman in the tiny town, where at 90 she is considered an elder.
She will be the first person counted in the U.S. Census, taken every 10 years to apportion representation in Congress and federal money.
I'm still happy I'm alive and I appreciate that I'm going to be the first person to be counted in the census, Lizzie Chimiugak said, speaking Yup'ik language of Yugtun, with family members serving as interpreters.
On Tuesday, Steven Dillingham, director of the census bureau, will conduct the first interview. Because of federal privacy laws, the bureau won’t even confirm Chimiugak will be the first person counted, even though it’s the worst kept secret in her hometown.
Chimiugak was born just after the start of the Great Depression in the middle of nowhere in western Alaska, her daughter Katie Schwartz of Springfield, Missouri, said. Lizzie was one of 10 siblings born to her parents, who lived a nomadic lifestyle and traveled with two or three other families that would migrate together, her son said.
Lizzie and her 101-year-old sister from Nightmute, Alaska, survive.
After the count in Toksook Bay, a celebration is planned at Nelson Island School, and will include local Alaska Native dancers and traditional food, which could include seal, walrus, musk ox and moose.
Robert Pitka, tribal administrator for Nunakauyak Traditional Council, hopes the takeaway message for the rest of the nation is of Yup’ik pride.
“We are Yup'ik people and that the world will see that we are very strong in our culture and our traditions and that our Yup'ik language is very strong,” Pitka said.
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Hundreds of foreigners evacuated from China coronavirus epicentre
Hundreds of people from Japan and the United States are returning home after being evacuated from China's Hubei province.
The region is at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak which has so far left more than 130 people dead, and nearly 6,000 others infected.
The evacuations come as some commercial airlines have reduced the number of flights to China, or stopped flying there altogether.
Al Jazeera's Wayne Hay reports from Hong Kong.
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Amid coronavirus outbreak, plane evacuates U.S. citizens from Wuhan, China
A plane carrying nearly 200 people is evacuating Americans from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. CBS News correspondent Carter Evans reports from outside March Air Force Base in California.
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What Is Coronavirus?
Health officials around the world are racing to gauge the danger posed by a new SARS-like virus that emerged in central China last month and spread rapidly, sickening hundreds and killing at least six.
Authorities are acting aggressively as the number of cases in China has grown to more than 300 and stretched to five additional countries, including the first diagnosis in the U.S. The World Health Organization will decide Wednesday whether to declare the virus an international public health emergency, a designation used for complex epidemics that can cross borders.
As they did during the SARS and Ebola outbreaks, health officials and scientists are tracking patients and testing samples of saliva and other fluids to determine the exact cause and severity of their ailments. They’re identifying and monitoring people with whom the patients were in contact to see if the virus is spreading easily from person to person. And they are placing restrictions on travel to try to limit the exposure to scores of new people.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expanded its inspection of airline passengers who had spent time in China to airports in Atlanta and Chicago on Tuesday, building on the 1,200 people who had been screened in California and New York over the weekend. No new cases were uncovered. Six patients in China have died from the infection, which also sickened health-care workers who were caring for them.
“This is an evolving situation,” said Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. “We do expect additional cases in the United States and globally.”
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and the CDC are working on a test that will allow doctors to rapidly diagnose the virus in the field, said Schaffner, though Messonnier cautioned that it could take time.
They also started preliminary work on a vaccine to prevent the infection, Schaffner said. That could also take time, however. A vaccine for Ebola that was recently approved in the U.S. took several years to develop following outbreaks in Africa in the past decade.
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Coronavirus: China warns against travel to virus-hit Wuhan - BBC News
Chinese authorities have urged people to stop travelling in and out of Wuhan, the city at the centre of a new virus outbreak that has killed nine.
Those living in the city of 8.9 million people have also been told to avoid crowds and minimise public gatherings.
The new virus has spread from Wuhan to several Chinese provinces, as well as the US, Thailand and South Korea.
There are 440 confirmed cases, with the origin a seafood market that conducted illegal transactions of wild animals.
Basically, do not go to Wuhan. And those in Wuhan please do not leave the city, said National Health Commission vice-minister Li Bin in one of the first public briefings since the beginning of the outbreak.
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