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Chinese officials are advising 11 million people at the center of an outbreak of a new virus to stay where they are for the Lunar New Year a holiday to avoid spreading.

It people in Wuhan had been asked not to leave the city and outsiders have been told to stay away.

Effected Peoples:

More then 400 people had been infected with the coronavirus and nine people have died moo-ha now has health checks and places at airports railway stations and on roads out of the city public gatherings as well, have also been restricted.

Virus Spread:

The new virus has spread from Wuhan to several Chinese provinces as well as the U.S, Thailand South Korea Japan Taiwan and we now have Hong Kong confirming its first case international restrictions are being put in place at many airports a short time ago.

The British government said it was introducing a separate area Heathrow Airport for people traveling from affected areas.

Steve McDonald:

There are millions of people on the move there crisscrossing this country and also traveling abroad and I can’t ND attitudes here over the last 48 hours towards

This virus has completely changed two days ago speaking to travelers, we could barely find somebody who is all that worried about the situation now you have people here queuing up to buy face masks.

They're canceling their trips in some cases about the trips canceled for them, for example, China's neighbor North Korea has canceled all tour groups coming in for the Lunar New Year.

Scientists recommending that nobody travelers to Luhanthis are the city where this the outbreak started,

And they're also saying people shouldn't leave that city that's a city of 11 million people they're suggesting during the Spring Festival the most important festival in this country.

That person shouldn't be coming and going from there really though you can understand why people are worried we had officials they held a press conference today warning that this virus could mutate and if it mutated it could be even more contagious.

So if you compare travel patterns in 2002 when the SARS outbreak happened in 600 people more than 600 people died compare that to now.

And in kind of understand while this travel is worrying people so in 2002 for SARS comparing that to now just in the province.

Where this outbreak started there are now twice as many people traveling by train in that province in terms of passengers flying out of China there are six times as many people now flying out of China.

There were in 2002 and so this is why the authorities are now desperate to try and get this situation under control before this potentially deadly coronavirus which causes pneumonia spreads to many more cities and many more countries.

It's why the World Health Organization is meeting to discuss this situation they're taking it very seriously Steve McDonald.