Posted on 01/22/2020 4:35:13 PM PST by Mariner
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese city of more than 11 million people planned to shut down outbound flights and trains Thursday as the world’s most populous country battled the spread of a new virus that has sickened hundreds of people and killed 17, state media reported.
Everyone in the city of Wuhan was to be restricted to some degree. The state-owned People’s Daily newspaper said no one would be allowed to leave. The official Xinhua News Agency said no one would be permitted to leave without a specific reason.
Train stations and the airport were to shut down at 10 a.m. Buses, subways, ferries and long-distance shuttle buses would also be temporarily closed.
Most of the cases are in Wuhan and surrounding Hubei province, but dozens of infections have popped up this week around the country as millions travel for the Lunar New Year, one of the world’s largest annual migrations of people. A handful of infected people who came from Wuhan have also been found overseas.
In Geneva, the World Health Organization put off deciding whether to declare the outbreak a global health emergency and asked an expert committee to continue meeting for a second day Thursday.
“We need more information,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
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Agreed.
Same here. So many times we have heard Wolf called we have become immune. One of these time it will be a wolf though.
wWfe is headed for Taiwan the 12th. Might be scary.
Every other day, another coming Friday. To NYC, densely populated.
Whoo boy.
Taiwan? I have good friends there..please explain.
Oh . Wife. Sorry I misread that last time...
Most corona virus have an incubation period of 5 days.
Here’s a report of five new cases in Hunan Province:
https://twitter.com/BreakingNAgency/status/1220197827797712897
Thanks. Check this out.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/world/asia/china-coronavirus.html
I think that city Gulin on the map is Yulin. There was a flight from Wuhan to Yulin this evening. Between these two, with some luck, Yulin could be devastated...that’s my hope anyway.
Russia
https://russia.liveuamap.com/en/2020/22-january-first-suspected-ncovwuhan-pneumonia-case-reported
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