In this Jan. 16, 2020, photo, travelers from China's Wuhan go through body temperature scanners at Narita airport in Narita, near Tokyo. A fourth person has died in an outbreak of a new coronavirus in China, authorities said Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020, as more places stepped up medical screening of travelers from the country as it enters its busiest travel period.
So far, four people have died, and more than 200 have been infected. The new type of coronavirus appears to have originated in the central city of Wuhan, which has reported 198 cases and all of the fatalities. Others who have been diagnosed in Beijing, Shanghai and southern Guangdong province had also visited Wuhan.
Australia’s chief medical officer Brendan Murphy said his country will be increasing airport screening. Australia receives a significant number of travelers from China, including three direct flights a week from Wuhan into Sydney, and these flights will be met by border security and biosecurity staff for assessments, Murphy told reporters.
Zhong, a government expert who helped expose the scale of SARS, told state broadcaster CCTV that two people in Guangdong province caught the virus from family members. When SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, first infected people in southern China, the Chinese government initially tried to conceal the severity of the epidemic, which ended up killing nearly 800 people. The cover-up was exposed by a high-ranking physician.
Leung, who was heavily involved in the response to SARS, said modeling shows that cases will multiply over the coming weeks but the outbreak will gradually lose momentum as precautionary measures take effect.
Let’s just hope the trump fucks catch it so they will have to acknowledge it’s existence
It's curious that all the deadly viruses like these always begin in China. Why?
Four people died out of a billion. That's news. Not counting hundreds of Chinese died from choking on food on the same day.
whos playing plague inc rn
America should do the same to prevent the next Ebola or Zika realDonaldTrump
Just tell me how long it will be before we have it on U.S. shores like the Ebola virus a few years ago What a day, a week, a month, WHEN?
The airlines will never implement anything that will hurt their almighty dollar.
W.H.O, are saying they think it takes to 72hrs to 14 days before the first symptom can be detected.
Human to human transmission has been confirmed, I understand. Several health care workers have been infected.
Has the US enacted any travel measures?
Good to know - thank you for the tweet
This is extremely scary!
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