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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And it seems the WHO will let China handle it.
A bit like “World War Z” if we are unlucky.
You can check out any time you like,
But you can never leave!
Too early to know if this is serious, real serious or pandemic level serious.
If any nation can contain this, it’s China. In spite of the fact it originated there.
They can completely lock down any city in the country.
I’m leaving on a Jet Plane,
don’t know when I’ll...
Sorry Yankee, you go nowhere...
>>If any nation can contain this, it’s China. In spite of the fact it originated there.
They can completely lock down any city in the country.<<
Yep, what you said. China has complete control and they allow or disallow any activity they wish.
Whereas here we speak of the rights of Ebola sufferers to return to their families on commercial flights.
Go China! To celebrate I’m going to purchase a $5.00 box fan assembled by a shoeless pre-teen!
Keep us posted.
We’re all gonna die MMCCXLVIII
I saw that citizens from that city were only being allowed to enter 5 of our main airports yesterday where they were going thru extra medical checks. I thought to myself, why not ban arrivals from that city until further notice.
But hey, what do I know.
Quarantining a city of 11 million people raises this situation to a whole new level.
New York City has around 8-9 million people, can you imagine shutting that city down, closing the tunnels, closing 3 major airports, etc....
It would be total chaos....
I suspect the Chinese Government has been trying to cover this up for some time until it got so big that it was impossible to contain it
It’s 20 million.
“no one would be allowed to leave. “
Communist totalitarianism.
Nice excuse to do dry runs on their emergency clampdown systems.
It’s ironic, if this happened in America,the left would allow it to spread along with all free travel in/out by third worlders because Trump would do everything possible to fight it for America.
Going to be messy with Chinese New Year coming up.
A flight out of Wuhan will be landing in about 30 minutes at JFK.
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/CSN8419/history/20200122/1240Z/ZHHH/KJFK
How many wealthy foreigners will go there now to get a kidney from a jailed political dissident?
How many Chinese who routinely blowtorch a hung dog to death for lunch in a local park or drag it behind a car on a highway will survive?
I’m still rooting for the virus and looking forward to tomorrow’s numbers.
The plane should be quarantined when it arrives.
Even though so far this virus doesn’t even worry me...that is amazing.
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