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Beijing's authorities have canceled New Year celebrations this weekend as a precaution as fears about the spread of a deadly new virus grow Singapore has just confirmed its first case of the virus two more Chinese cities.

Meanwhile have joined Wuhan where it was first identified in being put into lockdown Huang gang and a Joe with a combined population of eight and a half million are 70 kilometers away from Wuhan where 11 million residents have been told to stay put.

While the World Health The organization has said such a massive operation to restrict people moving and spreading the disease is unprecedented.

Infected and died People:

This has not something they have advised official figures now say 25 people have died 600 more have been infected most of them in Wuhan Stephen.

MacDonald reports are in a virtual lockdown in this city of 11 million people you're not allowed to enter any public space without a mask all public transport has been closed the last flights in already half-empty the final train services were also eerily quiet normally the Lunar.

New Year rush would mean you can't get a ticket here at the very epicenter of the virus maybe its best not to travel I'm confident that our government has the situation well in hand and that the situation will be quickly brought under control now.

Wherever you look people are wearing masks they're lining up to buy more masks some people are canceling their trips and there is a lot of concern and what's really made people pay attention to this health problem has been the shutdown of Wuhan.

The war hunt the shutdown has made this emergency suddenly very real for people right across China triggering memories of 2002 SARS outbreak which led to more than 600 deaths neighboring cities are also stopping train services as well as closing bars and restaurants these drastic measures have been welcomed by the World Health An organization.

Diagnose Coronavirus:

The sequencing was done quickly but more importantly, it was shared immediately and that's why Korea Japan Thailand was able to diagnose the new coronavirus quickly in all Chinese cities.

Medical teams are preparing for an influx of patients with the corona a virus which causes pneumonia staff at this war Han hospital isolation ward is worried.

So we are worried about our work here and get even more worried when we see the news every day I always say to others it's okay as we are well protected actually.

I was just saying that to keep the car we are actually afraid and worried but as long as we are here our own senses Duty will help us to do the job.

We are still all young ourselves so honestly we feel lost and afraid our family members are worried too but as long as we wear the protective clothing we'll be ok travelers had already left will Han before the Transport shutdown was in a place with a five-day incubation period many may have carried the virus to other cities.

And countries not knowing that already been infected and inside a metropolis quarantined from the outside world medical teams are bracing for this emergency to get much worse before it gets any better a short time ago.

Stephen McDonnell also sent us this update from Beijing on how the crisis is having an impact across China right across

China this emergency what's touching every the community here in Beijing the temple fairs which are normally a central part of Chinese New Year celebrations.

Hong Kong Celebration canceled:

And would be very crowded over the coming the weekend called off from here to Hong Kong New Year celebrations canceled street parades of the like and that's because the authorities are worried about this going the way of SARS.

Now if you look at the death toll so far as a percentage's not nearly as bad as SARS but when you consider the wrong people traveling flights alone now there are six times as many people flying out of China as there were at the time of the SARS outbreak.

In 2002 and that's the World Health Organization is set to meet again to decide whether or not to declare this a global emergency a doctor at the hospital in Wuhan said the virus is now spreading at an alarming rate the hospitals have been flooding with thousands of patients who wait hours to see a doctor.

You can imagine their panic normally Wuhan is a great place to live and we're proud of our work but I'm scared because this is a new virus and the figures are worrying well this story is obviously developing quite fast.

There's a lot more about it on our website including this article answering reader questions including exactly how the virus spreads and the current advice about traveling to China which is being updated by many current by many countries hour by hour  China Corona-virus.