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China coloca mais cidades sob quarentena
January 24, 2020 - A China está a montar rapidamente um hospital de campanha de 1.000 camas dedicado aos doentes infetados com um a nova estirpe viram que ja matou 26 doentes, contagiou centenas e motivou uma colocação sem precedentes de várias cidades em quarentena durante os festejos anuais mais importantes do país.
On the eve of the Lunar New Year, transportation was shut down in at least 13 cities home to more than 36 million people. The cities are Wuhan, where the illness has been concentrated, and 12 of its neighbours in central China’s Hubei province.
The vast majority of cases of the new coronavirus have been in and around Wuhan, but people who visited or had personal connections to infected people were among the scattered cases counted beyond mainland China. South Korea and Japan both confirmed their second cases Friday and Singapore confirmed its third. Cases have been detected in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, the United States, Thailand and Vietnam.