If it’s any consolation, the reason it can spread so quickly is because it is usually not fatal. Viruses that are extremely deadly can’t go as far. It takes ambulatory sickies to be out and about in contact with others. Also, 106 deaths, although sad, is not the makings of a black death.
The bulk of deaths in old China above whatever R-factor this thing truly owns is strictly China's...
(a) institutionalized ambivalence towards life ie Confucious say life is cheap;
(b) thus lack of whatever supportive therapies and the specific antibiotics that can corral coronavirus;
(c) a sub-section of populace who wouldn't take (b) if it was given to them and would rather drink bat broth to down ma huang; and,
(d) thusly a weakened host in a transportation hub where malnutrition and cultural hemlock (c) abound.