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China Battles Coronavirus Outbreak: All the Latest Updates

posted by martyb on Monday January 27 2020, @08:56AM   
from the stay-aware-and-wash-your-hands dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for carny which was the inspiration for this story.

China Battles Coronavirus Outbreak: All the Latest Updates:

The virus thought to have originated in a Wuhan food market continues to spread as China steps up containment efforts.

[...] China is extending the Lunar New Year holiday for three days and enforcing strict containment measures in an attempt to curb the spread of a new coronavirus that has killed 80 people and infected at more than 2,700, most of them in the central province of Hubei where the virus first emerged.

The holiday season was due to end on Friday but will now be extended until February 2.

More than 56 million people in almost 20 cities, including the Hubei capital of Wuhan, have been affected by travel restrictions, introduced amid fears the transmission rate will balloon as hundreds of millions of Chinese travel during the Lunar New Year celebrations.

[...] Health authorities around the world are taking action to prevent a pandemic as more countries report cases. Confirmed cases have so far been announced in several Asiancountries, Europe and North America.

[...] The World Health Organization (WHO) has acknowledged the respiratory illness, which has been traced to the city of Wuhan, is an emergency in China but the organisation said on Thursday it was too early to declare the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern.

Previously:

• Coronavirus: Millions Quarantined in Wuhan City
• China Reports 3rd Death, Nearly 140 New Cases of Coronavirus
• China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case

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Original Submission

• Re:how did this start? it's def. more then reporte Re:how did this start? it's def. more then reporte (Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday January 27 2020, @04:21PM (2 children)

  by The Mighty Buzzard (18) <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday January 27 2020, @04:21PM (#949378) Homepage Journal

  PSA: For those not aware, the medical-speak qualifier "idiopathic" means "we have no fucking clue why this is happening".

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• Re:how did this start? it's def. more then reporte Re:how did this start? it's def. more then reporte (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday January 27 2020, @06:33PM (1 child)

  by DeathMonkey (1380) on Monday January 27 2020, @06:33PM (#949458) Journal

  AKA the exciting part of science.

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  • Re:how did this start? it's def. more then reporte (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday January 28 2020, @03:15AM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday January 28 2020, @03:15AM (#949804) Homepage Journal

    Indeed. Something you do not want to hear from your doctor though.

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