China to tighten virus containment measures as death toll rises

Passengers wear face masks at Hong Kong’s international airport on January 22 2020. Picture: AFP/ANTHONY WALLACE

As China vowed to tighten containment measures in hospitals, the World Health Organisation was due to hold an emergency meeting on Wednesday to determine whether the outbreak of the new coronavirus constitutes a global health emergency. The fear of a pandemic similar to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome outbreak that started in China and killed nearly 800 people in 2002-2003 have roiled global markets, with aviation and luxury goods stocks hit particularly hard and the Chinese yuan tumbling.WHO spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic said new cases of the coronavirus would appear as China stepped up monitoring. “If you increase surveillance and testing you are likely to get new numbers,” he said.

The new virus was adapting and mutating, underscoring the challenges for health authorities in controlling the outbreak, Gao Fu, the director-general of China’s Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, told a news briefing. Taiwan on Tuesday confirmed its first case of the coronavirus, a woman returning to Taiwan from Wuhan.

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