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A second Chinese city will go into lockdown in an effort to control the spread of a new virus that has left 17 dead in the

country.Authorities have suspended planes and trains in and out of Wuhan - a city of 11 million people - as well as all public transport

within the city.Similar measures will take effect in nearby Huanggang, a city of more than seven million, as of midnight.There are more than

500 confirmed cases of the virus, which has spread abroad.The new strain of coronavirus is believed to have originated at a market in Wuhan

One resident of the city said the atmosphere felt like "the end of the world".The lockdown comes as millions of Chinese people travel across

the country for the forthcoming Lunar New Year holiday.Another Wuhan resident said on social media site Weibo that they were on the "verge

of tears" when they heard about the closures.What's the latest?Wuhan's public transport lockdown came into force as of 10:00 local time

(02:00 GMT), leaving normally busy train stations and airports empty.Health authorities are reported to have made wearing a mask mandatory

in the city

They are advising people to avoid crowds and public gatherings.Demand for rubber gloves and surgical masks has soared

Taobao, the Chinese online retail giant, has warned sellers not to profit from the outbreak by raising prices.Supermarket shelves emptied in

Wuhan as residents stocked up on supplies Hours after Wuhan's lockdown came into force, authorities in Huanggang - east of Wuhan - announced

a suspension of the city's bus and rail system from midnight, and encouraged people not to leave the city

Cafes, cinemas, theatres and exhibitions in both cities have been shut.Other cities are also taking action

Ezhou - a city of more than a million people just south of Huanggang - announced it had shut its train stations, while the Chinese capital

Beijing announced it had cancelled all major Chinese New Year celebrations.All the fatalities so far have been in Hubei province, of which

Wuhan is the capital

Most of the 17 victims were elderly and suffered from other chronic diseases including Parkinson's disease and diabetes.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 are proud of our work - specialists here have developed a guide for coronavirus diagnosis and treatment.But I

am scared because this is a new virus and the figures are worrying.Two days ago we were told not to go to work because of the risk of

contamination

If we leave our home on the hospital campus, we are required to wear masks.We don't want to take our two-year-old son outside

He's sleeping now, and we are trying to protect him as much as possible - handwashing, airing the apartment, avoiding contact with

people.Outside I can barely see anyone on the streets

We have been told to avoid gathering.I went to the supermarket to buy food, but there was nothing left - no vegetables or biscuits

Some Lunar New Year celebrations are cancelled.People had bought tickets to go home for Lunar New Year but they can't go now

Everyone is stuck here and can't leave.Currently known as 2019-nCoV, the virus is understood to be a new strain of coronavirus not

previously identified in humans

The Sars (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) virus that killed nearly 800 people globally in the early 2000s was also a coronavirus, as is

the common cold.Authorities have said this new virus originated in a seafood market in Wuhan that "conducted illegal transactions of wild

animals"

The market has been shut down since the beginning of the year.Some researchers have suggested the illness may have originated in snakes

A study published on Wednesday in the Journal of Medical Virology said genetic analysis suggests snakes are "the most probable wildlife

animal reservoir" for the virus, but this would need to be confirmed by other studies

Other researchers have questioned the claim.There is also evidence of human-to-human transmission with the virus spreading from patients to

family members and healthcare workers.But understanding more about how the virus transmits between people is one of the major outstanding

questions in this outbreak.The virus infects the lungs, and symptoms start with a fever and cough

It can progress to shortness of breath and breathing difficulties.Media captionThe BBC's online health editor talks us through what we know

about the virus The World Health Organization (WHO) emergency committee is still debating whether or not to declare a "global emergency"

over the new virus

A global emergency is the highest level of alarm the WHO can sound, and has previously been used in response to swine flu, Zika virus and

Ebola.What symptoms did the victims have?This virus is new, and has been given the temporary name "2019-nCoV" - the n standing for "novel",

and "CoV" indicating it's a type of coronavirus. It causes severe acute respiratory infection - with a fever and a cough - and requires

hospital admission, according to the World Health Organisation's guidance. A fever is the main symptom, with some cases involving

difficulty breathing

Once checked in hospital, the lungs might show signs of "pneumonic infiltrates". Of the 17 people known to have died, most were over 60

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18:4518:45BREAKINGSingapore confirms first case of virusSingapore has confirmed its first case of the Wuhan virus, local media report. The

Straits Times reports that a 66-year-old Chinese national tested positive for the virus, quoting a briefing from the health ministry

The man's son is also being treated as a suspected case, it said. Another woman from China - but who travelled separately - has also been

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18:4218:42TV presenters in face masksKerry Allen BBC Monitoring, Chinese Media Analyst Face mask sales have skyrocketed across China, with

the China Daily newspaper noting that &the surge in demand has hollowed out face mask inventories of some vendors on e-commerce platforms,

including Taobao and JD, two of the largest online marketplaces&. Government mouthpiece People Daily has been heavily promoting particular

masks people should buy, and which ones should be avoided

But it has also been issuing stern warnings against companies seeking to capitalise on the crisis by hiking prices on these products, and

says that online vendors will be banned if they are caught doing so

(We've written more on that here) Chinese TV presenter wearing maskHunan TVCopyright: Hunan TVFace masks have become the dominant image

associated with the city of Wuhan as it goes into lockdown, to the extent that several Hunan provincial TV presenters have worn masks in

their bulletins. Social media users are also seeing reporters based in Wuhan interviewing disgruntled travellers at train stations who have

found out their journeys have been cancelled

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18:3418:34Railways to provide refundsChina's state railway group says passengers can get free refunds for rail tickets nationwide from 24

January amid the coronavirus outbreak, state media report. Hundreds of millions of rail journeys are expected to be made across the country

for Chinese New Year, which begins on 25 January. Rail travel in and out of Wuhan has been suspended and similar measures are due to be

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questions answeredAre packages bought from Wuhan safe? - Stefan James Gallagher Health and science correspondent, BBC News There is no

evidence this is a risk

Some diseases - including the coronavirus that causes Sars - can spread through surfaces contaminated by people coughing or sneezing on

them. It has not been shown this new coronavirus can do that

Even if it could, there would still be questions about whether international shipping would be a major problem. Cold viruses tend to

survive less than 24 hours outside the human body although norovirus (a severe stomach bug) can last months outside the body. The most

reassuring fact so far is that cases seem to require close contact with another person - say, a family member or healthcare worker - in

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happened in the past 24 hours?Hankou station in WuhanReutersCopyright: ReutersA worker sprays the area outside the closed Hankou station in

WuhanImage caption: A worker sprays the area outside the closed Hankou station in WuhanThe death toll has risen to 17, with 500 cases of the

virus confirmed

All the victims were in mainland ChinaWuhan's public transport lockdown came into force as of 10:00 local time (02:00 GMT), leaving normally

busy train stations and airports emptyIn Huanggang - east of Wuhan - authorities announced a suspension of the city's bus and rail system

from midnight, and encouraged people not to leave the city

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18:0918:09The best of the BBC's coverageThe information from China is coming thick and fast - here's the best of our material for you to

follow: Your questions about the outbreak answeredHow worried should we be?The city now in lockdown - Wuhan profiledHow do you quarantine a

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18:0718:07Embassy searches for Wuhan tourist in FranceLucy Williamson BBC News Paris Correspondent The Chinese Embassy in Paris has told

the BBC that they are trying to locate a woman from the Wuhan area who said on social media that she had taken medication to suppress signs

of the virus in order to enter France. There is no confirmation of whether she is still in France, or whether she does have the virus. The

woman had reportedly passed through screening at customs while flights out of Wuhan were still operating and then posted pictures of herself

eating at a Michelin-starred restaurant in France and described how she had managed to get there. She has been widely criticised by other

Chinese social media users, the South China Morning Post reports. Social embed from twitter Laurie Chen✔@lauriechenwordsSo it's

true: a Wuhan woman with mild fever symptoms took meds to bring her temp down, passed screening at customs, flew to France, ate at a

Michelin-starred restaurant -- and bragged about it all on WeChat

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links. Posted at 17:5917:59How the virus has spread through ChinaA heatmap shows the spread of cases with the Hubei province, where Wuhan

and Huangong are, at the core - while western China remains mostly unaffectedBBCCopyright: BBCAll the fatalities so far have been in Hubei

province, of which Wuhan is the capital. But Wuhan is also a major transport hub, and non-fatal cases of the virus appear to have spread

from the city to other provinces, mainly in the east of the country. Apart from the city's airports, it's also well-connected by railway to

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17:5317:53Your questions answeredIs it possible to vaccinate? - Hans Friedrich Michelle Roberts Health editor, BBC News online At the

moment, there is no vaccine that can protect people against this type of coronavirus, but researchers are looking to develop one. It is a

new strain that hasn't been seen in humans before, which means doctors still have lots to learn about it. Article share tools ShareView

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quarantine an entire city?Owen Amos BBC News, Singapore A general view of Wuhan shows the elaborate Yellow Crane Tower set against the

bridge and riverGettyCopyright: GettyCan you quarantine an entire city? And if you can - does it work? Wuhan is a huge place - the 42nd

biggest city in the world, according to UN data - and cannot easily be turned into an isolation ward. "The only way you could do it,

realistically, would be to ring-fence the city with the PLA [Chinese military]," says Professor Adam Kamradt-Scott, a health security expert

from the University of Sydney. But even if they do it, where - literally - would they draw the line? Like most modern cities, Wuhan sprawls

into smaller towns and villages. Gauden Galea, the World Health Organization's representative in China, puts it more bluntly. "To my

knowledge, trying to contain a city of 11 million people is new to science," he told the Associated Press

"We cannot at this stage say it will or it will not work." And even if it proves possible to shut the stable door on Wuhan, the horse may

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17:4217:42Criticisms emerge in Chinese mediaKerry Allen BBC Monitoring, Chinese Media Analyst Some criticisms are appearing in Chinese

media about why the authorities were slow to respond to the outbreak. The Chengdu Business Daily is asking &why didn&t Wuhan close the city

earlier& and Hu Xijin, the editor of prominent newspaper Global Times acknowledges that there was a &failure& to contain the virus, saying

he was "worried that some places, while attaching great importance to meetings and slogans, have not really been mobilised to deal with a

large public health battle&. Elsewhere, The Paper also interviews a couple, who say they suspect they may have the virus, but have waited

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17:3617:36Airports exercise extreme cautionDozens of passengers at an airport are all seen wearing face masks in a queue stretching into the

distanceReutersCopyright: ReutersAt Japan's Narita airport, passengers on flights from Wuhan, that launched just before the lockdown came

in, wore whatever protection they could findImage caption: At Japan's Narita airport, passengers on flights from Wuhan, that launched just

before the lockdown came in, wore whatever protection they could findA female airport employee in uniform, and masked, pulls on surgical

gloves to inspect baggageAFPCopyright: AFPIn Rome's Fiumicino airport, an employee dons protective gear to check-in luggage from WuhanImage

caption: In Rome's Fiumicino airport, an employee dons protective gear to check-in luggage from WuhanA flight board shows all flights

cancelledAFPCopyright: AFPThe departures board in Wuhan's airport on Thursday had one main messageImage caption: The departures board in

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17:2817:28Why hasn&t the WHO declared a global emergency? James Gallagher Health and science correspondent, BBC News Don&t rule it out

yet, but this is not a clear-cut decision. After a full day of deliberations on Wednesday, the World Health Organization emergency

committee was split on whether to declare a global emergency

Instead it is spending another day assessing the evidence. The challenge is the facts are changing as scientists grapple with key questions

such as how easily the coronavirus spreads from person to person and what is the true scale of the outbreak beyond those appearing in

hospital. Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, said it was an &evolving and complex situation& and that &appropriate consideration

of all the evidence& was needed. There are three tests that need to be passed before declaring a public health emergency of international

concern

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these links. Posted at 17:2217:22Wuhan mayor acknowledges criticismThe mayor of Wuhan has acknowledged that officials were too slow to

control the disease. Zhou Xianwang said the authorities didn't fully understand the danger of the virus -- or how quickly it would

spread. The mayor has been criticised by some residents of Wuhan - a major transport hub - who say he should have acted quicker. Article

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17:2117:21'This virus couldn&t have emerged at a worse time'Anna Jones BBC News, Singapore Ritan park Beijing 21 JanEPACopyright: EPAA

woman walks in Beijing's Ritan Park past lanterns set up ahead of Chinese New YearImage caption: A woman walks in Beijing's Ritan Park past

lanterns set up ahead of Chinese New YearThe Beijing Daily newspaper reports that Beijing has cancelled large-scale events including some

Chinese New Year celebrations as a precaution against the virus spreading. The cancelled events include many temple fairs, visits to which

are a popular new year activity. What happens at Chinese New Year? This virus couldn&t have emerged at a worse time for Chinese people

The lunar new year - the biggest holiday of the year - is this weekend. That when people across China, as in all countries that mark the

lunar calendar, get together with their families for reunion dinners and celebrations. In China alone, hundreds of millions of people

travel often vast distances to get home

For many it their only break in the year and the only time to see their loved ones. That makes for the world's biggest annual human

migration - before the coronavirus outbreak some 440 million rail journeys were expected to be made and nearly 80 million people were

expected to take flights. For those in Wuhan, spending the holiday cooped up at home instead, and worrying about the virus, will be a

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about these links. Posted at 17:0717:07Wuhan still calm - for nowGrace Tsoi BBC World Service, Hong Kong I&ve been trying to look for

people in Wuhan to talk about how life is like after the city was put into a lockdown, but many are not willing to speak on record for fear

of possible repercussions. The city is quiet & also partly because the Chinese New Year is coming this Saturday

Wuhan is a major transportation hub and home to many universities. People are worried about the spread of the disease, but things are still

calm for now

Some of the people told me they were going to stay home during the Chinese New Year holiday, instead of visiting relatives, to minimise

contact with others. Most are wearing face masks now, which didn&t happen before & and some are blaming the government for not revealing

the severity of the outbreak

One told me only pharmacies and supermarkets are still open. But hospitals are full and patients need to wait for four to five hours just

to see doctors, even when they display respiratory symptoms.Post disinfected, film releases delayedBeyond travel problems, Wuhan lockdown

has resulted in disruptions to China film and postal industries.China Post has confirmed that parcels passing through the city are now being

subject to a screening and disinfection process

As it is common in China for couriers to deliver goods directly to people via motorbikes, the company is urging consumers to now contact

couriers by phone, and arrange for their goods to be delivered to a collection point or parcel box "to reduce person-to-person contact".This

means that people stranded in the city may not even receive New Year presents from their loved ones.At least seven films have suddenly

postponed their releases nationwide as well, with Sina Entertainment saying that they&re &worried about the further spread of the epidemic&

and &considering the risk of disease transmission in theconfined space of cinemas&.This is a major blow to China's film industry - film

companies have traditionally tried to schedule their films during Chinese New Year to maximise their profits, given it is the time of year

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18:5718:57Your questions answeredIs there a reason these viruses are emerging more from China? - Gautam James Gallagher Health and

science correspondent, BBC News Yes - large populations of people living in close proximity to animals. This coronavirus almost certainly

came from an animal source, with one suggestion being snakes

Sars, another coronavirus that originated in China, came from bats and the civet cat. The early cases of this new infection were traced to

the South China Seafood Wholesale Market

Live wild animals were also sold including chickens, bats and snakes. It is a far cry from the usual shopping experience if you are used to

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did the victims have?This virus is new, and has been given the temporary name "2019-nCoV" - the n standing for "novel", and "CoV" indicating

it's a type of coronavirus. It causes severe acute respiratory infection - with a fever and a cough - and requires hospital admission,

according to the World Health Organisation's guidance. A fever is the main symptom, with some cases involving difficulty breathing