China Takes Extreme Measures as Deadly Coronavirus Spreads: VIDEO

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China Takes Extreme Measures as Deadly Coronavirus Spreads: VIDEO

China has locked down three cities with a combined population of 20 million in an unprecedented effort to contain the deadly coronavirus. As of Thursday, the virus had killed 17 people and infected more than 634.

#Wuhan virus #Shanghai #chernobyl.#coronavirus
Gov’t Spraying disinfector in the residential area, sounds like chernobyl pic.twitter.com/WkHgIXOapB

— Tom Zhao (@Zhao_Dading) January 21, 2020

The Wall Street Journal reports: On Thursday, authorities in Huanggang—a city of 7.5 million people—said they wouldn’t let long-distance trains and buses run from the urban center and would shut its public transportation system in the lockdown zone, effective midnight Friday local time. Ezhou, another neighboring city with just over a million residents, said it would enact similar restrictions, bringing the total number of cities with travel restrictions to three. Huanggang is about 35 miles east of Wuhan, a city of 11 million and a major hub for travel, where the new pneumonia-causing coronavirus originated. Wuhan just hours earlier halted outbound trains and flights and shut down its public-transportation system.

The Chinese capital of Beijing has also canceled all large-scale Chinese New Year celebrations.

One suspected patient at the fuzhou changle airport.#coronavirus。 pic.twitter.com/gvnIz1ObCi

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More from the Associated Press: Police, SWAT teams and paramilitary troops guarded Wuhan’s train station, where metal barriers blocked the entrances at 10 a.m. sharp. Only travelers holding tickets for the last trains were allowed to enter, with those booked for later trains being turned away. … Health authorities were taking extraordinary measures to prevent additional person-to-person transmissions, placing those suspected to be infected in plastic tubes and wheeled boxes where air passed through filters. … WHO plans another meeting of scientific experts Thursday on whether to recommend declaring the outbreak a global health emergency, which it defines as an “extraordinary event” that constitutes a risk to other countries and requires a coordinated international response.

A video shared by a Wuhan resident shows empty shelves at supermarkets as people stock up in the city of 11 million under lockdown to stop the coronavirus outbreak. Full report: t.co/JtbR3O1zyl pic.twitter.com/fdvwyDopWR

— Reuters (@Reuters) January 23, 2020

Chinese city Vuhan is blocked by army, nobody is allowed to leave the city. It is the city where the first coronavirus victims were registered. There are rumors of more than 100 casualties already. This is a big city, 12 million people live there, more than in New York pic.twitter.com/s6X8RFzQzm

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WATCH: Highways near Wuhan have been blocked to stop people from leaving the city of 11 million in an effort to contain coronavirus pic.twitter.com/gkZ1RNKQAK

— BNO News (@BNONews) January 23, 2020

Most medical staff seen in #Wuhan hospitals are wearing highly protective suits. The order for most staff to wear these suits likely came after medical personnel became infected with the virus. #China #Coronavirus pic.twitter.com/OvCadb2KZW

— Global: MilitaryInfo (@Global_Mil_Info) January 23, 2020

People are queuing in front of the hospital with their masks on. #coronavirus #wuhan pic.twitter.com/74wiBsxq9z

— Yan (@Yan_haoyan) January 23, 2020

“We don’t know what to do.”

Wuhan, the Chinese city of 11 million people, has locked down all public transport in a bid to contain the outbreak of SARS-like #Coronavirus pic.twitter.com/jCqHVKuXcI

— QuickTake by Bloomberg (@QuickTake) January 23, 2020

Hospitals in Wuhan have been severely overloaded as thousands of potentially infected individuals seek medical help.#WuhanCoronavirus #WuhanPneumonia #WuhanOutbreak #WuhanLockDown #CoronaVirus pic.twitter.com/syXUm0JSKC

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