Foreigners prepare to flee as China virus toll tops 100

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The United States, Japan other nations raced Tuesday to get their citizens out of the locked-down Chinese city at ground zero of a virus epidemic, as the death toll surged to 106 and the number of confirmed infections doubled to over 4,500.

A woman in Beijing wears a protective mask to help stop the spread of the coranavirus, which has killed more than 100 people

Japan announced it would send a chartered flight to Wuhan on Tuesday evening to evacuate about 200 of 650 Japanese nationals. Exposure to a sneeze or cough from an infected person appeared to be the main transmission mode, Chinese infectious disease experts told reporters on Tuesday. And the education ministry on Tuesday said the spring semester for schools and universities would be postponed, giving no resumption date.Despite the unprecedented measures, the virus has showed little sign of slowing down.

China has deployed hundreds of military medics to help and is building two field hospitals, aiming to finish them in just 10 days.

 

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