BEIJING, Feb 14 — The new coronavirus has infected 1,700 Chinese health workers and killed six, authorities said today, as businesses struggled to balance containment measures with a return from an extended post-holiday break. Authorities reported 5,090 new cases in mainland China, including more...
A picture released by the Central Hospital of Wuhan shows medical staff attending to a patient in Wuhan on an unknown date. — Picture by the Central Hospital of Wuhan via Weibo/Handout via Reuters
China’s factories and offices are only slowly creaking back into life after Lunar New Year holidays that were extended by 10 days in the struggle to rein in the virus, which emerged in December in Wuhan, capital of the central province of Hubei. Government employee Jin Yang, 28, made it in to his Beijing office but found it “anything but normal”.
But there is little sign that the tide has yet turned against a virus killing around 2 per cent of those it infects — but able to spread much faster than other respiratory viruses that have emerged this century. Vietnam has imposed 20 days’ quarantine on Son Loi, a 10,000-strong rural community 44 km from the capital Hanoi, that is home to 11 of the 16 coronavirus cases reported in the country, two local officials told Reuters on Thursday.
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