BEIJING — China extended its Lunar New Year holiday three more days to discourage people from traveling as it tries to contain the spread of a viral illness that has caused 80 deaths, the government said Monday.Tens of millions of Chinese who visited their hometowns or tourist spots were due to return home this week in the world’s largest movement of humanity, raising the risk the virus might spread in crowded trains and planes.
President Xi Jinping has called the outbreak a grave situation and said the government was stepping up efforts to restrict travel and public gatherings while rushing medical staff and supplies to the city at the center of the crisis, Wuhan, which remains on lockdown with no flights, trains or buses in or out.
The epidemic has revived memories of the SARS outbreak that originated in China and killed nearly 800 as it spread around the world in 2002 and 2003. Its spread has come amid China’s busiest travel period of the year, when millions crisscross the country or head abroad for the Lunar New Year holiday.
French automaker PSA Group said it will evacuate its employees from Wuhan, quarantine them and then bring them to France.Chinese travel agencies have been told to halt all group tours, and concern is growing over the potential impact of millions of people traveling back to the cities after the Lunar New Year holiday ends on Thursday.
China cut off trains, planes and other links to the city Jan. 22, and has steadily expanded the lockdown to 16 surrounding cities with a combined population of more than 50 million. Xinhua also said medical supplies are being rushed to the city, including 14,000 protective suits, 110,000 pairs of gloves and masks and goggles.
Are we calling it 'Captain Trips' yet? Scary stuff.
I've been saying for the last few days this is man-made. No way of virus gets that strong that fast without help. Good luck everybody. Looks like we're going to need it.
fake Flu DEATH Numbers
Jujumagicxo
MisterAntiBully 'It's just a flu, guys. Car crashes kill more people every year.' XD
17 cities quarantined. Can you even imagine that possibly happening here? The Chinese government can do that. I don’t think that Our leadership could even possibly agree on what to do if this was here.
MisterAntiBully 2700 🤣 try 90,000+ that CCP is suppressing. It's gonna skyrocket in the next two weeks.
Is it getting stronger? Or were they late in disclosing, fooling themselves about severity at the outset, or hoping it would fizzle out before it got this bad.
Shut down air travel out of china until the severity is known...China shutting down whole cities means it is obviously severe.
Canadabuster
I think by “getting stronger” they CCP mean “we are about to increase the reported numbers to a more realistic level”.
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In U.S, we have a daily defense against the virus by the use of home arsenal sprays and bleach. Most of food supply chains and services are also heavily using bleach to sanitize both kitchen and dining areas. The wuhan virus will disappear by cycle, not by medicine.
MisterAntiBully China did't mess up and then lie about it, its just Getting stronger💪
Biological warfare by China.
TravelBanNow realDonaldTrump
'Just the sniffles bro'
Uh huh...
MisterAntiBully Fuck I just sneezed! TWICE!
The white washing has begin
MisterAntiBully
MisterAntiBully IRL Plague Inc
If infections are increasing at about 45% a day, does that mean in just over two weeks it could hit a million infections?
Close the borders
Please put on the quote like this cthe virus is getting stinger in a bility to spread'. The way u put it could be misleading as the virus mutate. For god sake u r multinational media.
New Virus?
Not a bio weapon, someone ate a rat, yeah right
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x 1,200 +/-
Nasdaq closes at record high Thursday as WorldHealthOrganization says it won't declare a global public health emergency over the coronavirus outbreak. Jan 23 Has WHO revisited this decision?
Did anyone think to tell them to stop eating bats, badgers, snakes and dogs?
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