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China deploys army medics to overwhelmed virus epicentre

A soldier checking the temperature of a driver at a toll gate in Wuhan, China, yesterday. The city is under lockdown to prevent the spread of a SARS-like virus, which has claimed 26 lives, while Beijing has deployed 450 military medical personnel to the city. – EPA pic, January 24, 2020.

THE Chinese army deployed medical specialists today to the epicentre of a spiralling viral outbreak that has already killed 41 people and spread around the world, as millions spent their normally festive Lunar New Year holiday under lockdown. The country’s most important celebration has been all-but cancelled for people in a dozen cities who have been ordered to hunker down.

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