U.S. Financial Times reporter Gabriel Wildau picked up a Chinese newspaper which said that the whole city of Wuhan is under quarantine because of the rapid spread of a deadly virus called 2019 coronavirus (2019-nCoV).
This highly infectious respiratory illness causes a type of pneumonia on those affected, and could even lead to death. Experts have compared it to the 2003 outbreak SARS, because it is also a type of coronavirus. Scientists have confirmed that the genetic code of the new virus is most closely related to SARS than any other that the humans have encountered.
This deadly illness has originated from a seafood wet market in the city of Wuhan, China and has spread very quickly all across China, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, and now has reached the shores of the United States.
Immediately after the U.S. reported its first case, the Chinese government had the city of Wuhan quarantined, and their 11 million residents will be trapped within the city unless they have special permission to leave after going through a screening process.
At this moment, only hundreds of cases have been officially reported, but experts fear that this deadly virus has already infected over thousands by now. 17 people have already died from the illness.
Before the Wuhan quarantine, the local government was already censoring news about the outbreak, while deleted social media posts that went again the official statements regarding the sickness.
Because of the local government’s terrible mismanagement of the SARS outbreak back in 2002 and 2003, China is now under intense scrutiny on their solutions of containing this outbreak. The Chinese government was initially accused of covering up the severity of SARS when it was starting to spread to different countries.
Residents living in the three affected cities have been advised not to come in contact with live animals without protection. They have also been advised to thoroughly cook meet and eggs and to avoid other people that are showing flu-like symptoms.
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