BEIJING, Jan 25 — The Chinese army deployed medical specialists today to the epicentre of a spiralling viral outbreak that has killed 41 people and spread around the world, as millions spent their normally festive Lunar New Year holiday under lockdown. The country’s most important celebration...
Pharmacy workers wearing protective clothes and masks serve customers in Wuhan January 25, 2020. — AFP pic
On the eastern outskirts of Wuhan — Hubei’s capital and the source of the previously unknown 2019 Novel Coronavirus — police manning a roadblock turned away a handful of vehicles trying to exit the city.But the police allowed some medical workers who had gone home for the holidays to re-enter the city to help at overwhelmed hospitals.
The medics, who arrived on military aircraft late yesterday, include doctors with experience combating SARS or Ebola and will be dispatched to hospitals that are reportedly short on beds due to a crush of infected patients and worried locals. “China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus,” US President Donald Trump tweeted, hours after the United States confirmed its second case.“It will all work out well.”
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