Coronavirus outbreak: Number of dead rises to 259 as amount of cases reaches 11,791

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The US declares a public health emergency and takes steps towards stricter rules on entry into the country.

The State Department is planning more flights to bring Americans out of Wuhan, who will also be quarantined for two weeks.

Mr Azar said:"The risk of infection for Americans remains low and with these and our previous actions we are working to keep the risk low."Meanwhile, British health officials are urgently trying to trace those who came into contact withPublic Health England confirmed that the two people taken ill - who are members of the same family - had been staying at a hotel in York when they became unwell.

The British passengers were taken to the Merseyside hospital to be housed in an NHS staff accommodation block with access to the internet.Many other countries, including Australia, South Korea, Singapore and New Zealand, have said they plan to quarantine evacuees for two weeks to avoid spread of the virus.

 

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Please, you call this a major problem where 259 people died over a period of 3 weeks a epidemic. Here in South Africa the murder rate is 58 people a day over the same 3 weeks over 1200 people would have died due to murder alone, and the ANC lead goverment say it's nothing.

That’s Chinese “official” figures - multiply 10 x and you probably get the true picture

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