Xi says China facing 'big test' with virus, global impact spreads

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The 2019 novel coronavirus has so far killed more than 2,400 people, with about 80,000 infected globally. nCoV

SITTING. An elderly man wearing a face mask to protect against the COVID-19 coronavirus sits outside of his home in Beijing on February 23, 2020. Photo by Nicolas Asfouri/AFPis the communist country's largest-ever public health emergency, but other nations were also increasingly under pressure from the deadly outbreak's relentless global march.

The country now has the most infections outside of China, apart from the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in Japan. Austrian railways said traffic on a major route to Italy through the Brenner Pass would be suspended, after a train was stopped because of two suspected cases of the virus. Two more fatalities came over the weekend but Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte urged people"not to give in to panic," and asked them to follow the advice of health authorities.

The outbreak in the Islamic Republic surfaced Wednesday, February 19, and quickly grew to 43 confirmed infections, a sudden rise that prompted regional travel restrictions.

 

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