"China Corona-virus" Death toll rises cities restrict travel | Everyday Big News

"China Corona-virus" Death toll rises as more cities restrict travel | Everyday Big News.

The Chinese authorities have imposed a lockdown in the central city of Wuhan where the coronavirus was first discovered other cities and who Bay Province have also had major restrictions to travel.

Millions of people are in quarantine just one day ahead of the Chinese New Year holiday rail stations across the province have largely restrict to travel.

Died People:

And police checkpoints have been set up on main roads where 26 people have died so far after contracting the virus which attacks the respiratory system all of those deaths have been in China.

Mostly in and around Wuhan but now there have been two deaths outside who pay the province for the first time nationally.

There are currently,830 confirmed cases of patients infected with the virus, another case has now been confirmed in Thailand.

International Cases:

Bringing the total number of international cases to 14 the w8 show the World Health Organization has said it doesn't yet consider it to be a global health emergency attempts to stop the spread of the virus,

Through being enforced in many countries around the world

Hong Kong People:

Here in Hong Kong people had to the queue to collect refunds after they canceled their travel plans for fear of traveling to an infected area.

Wang Zhong (governor of a province)

The governor of whom a province Wang Zhong on the measures being taken in China what Shanghai at present the epidemic prevention amid the outbreak in Wuhan has entered a critical stage,

We must resolutely curb the spread of the epidemic to other places, Eugen, well the latest on how the virus is affecting China.

Here's our correspondent Steve McDonald in Beijing well it's a very strange Chinese New Year's Eve that's for sure this is the most important night of the year for Chinese people,

And yet the streets in most Chinese cities are very quiet many people don't want to leave their homes for fear of contracting this virus those who are coming out into the streets are pretty much all wearing face masks to stop them from passing,

And on or from hopefully, lessen the chance of them catching this sickness in Beijing everybody from Wuhan who enters the city whether they have a temperature or not now has to go into quarantine for 14 days now they can do that at home,

But they have to regularly report in to have their health checked and this just gives you an idea with the measures being taken right across the country all of these public events,

Cinemas Closed:

Which you would normally have for the Chinese New Year many of them are being called off no Temple fairs in Beijing, in Guangdong, all the cinemas have been closed for all of the Spring Festival in Shanghai Disneyland closed in the area around Wuhan.

Many more cities and our following that city leads shutting down all of their public transport coming in and out of those cities and also within the cities themselves transport being shut down,

And these are pretty drastic measures not to fix this problem but to try and slow the spread of the disease to bring it under control.