Wuhan virus: City should have acted sooner, says Wuhan communist party chief

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BEIJING (REUTERS) - Wuhan, the epicentre of a coronavirus outbreak that has quickly spread beyond China’s borders in recent days, should have taken measures sooner to contain it, the city’s Communist Party chief said on Friday (Jan 31).. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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BEIJING - Wuhan, the epicentre of a coronavirus outbreak that has quickly spread beyond China’s borders in recent days, should have taken measures sooner to contain it, the city’s Communist Party chief said on Friday .

The impact of the virus on the rest of China and on the world “would have been less” if the containment measures had been implemented sooner, Mr Ma Guoqiang said in a nationally televised interview. The coronavirus outbreak that began in Wuhan, capital of China’s central province of Hubei, has so far killed more than 200 people, all in China, and affected more than 9,800 people worldwide, surpassing the total from the 2002-2003 Sars epidemic.

The task of containing and preventing the spread of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan remains “severe and complex”, its mayor, Mr Zhou Xianwang, said earlier on Friday.Mr Zhou and Ms Xu were speaking at a televised press conference. The United States and other countries tightened travel curbs on Friday and businesses said they were facing supply problems because of the coronavirus in China, a day after the World Health Organisation declared a global health emergency.

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WAYANG!!!

Easy for him to say - everything's always clearer with the benefit of hindsight.

All ready shit, should have is useless.

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