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Follow latest updates as officials fear infection will spread rapidly over Lunar New Year holidays

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China has shut down at least 13 cities encompassing 41 million people in an attempt to contain a deadly virus that has infected hundreds of people.

Some 830 cases of the new coronavirus have been confirmed and 26 people have died, the National Health Commission said on Thursday.


Most cases are in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where the virus is believed to have originated in a market which traded in illegal wildlife, but cases have also been confirmed in the United States, Thailand, Hong Kong, Macau, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, SIngapore and Vietnam.

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Fourteen people have been tested for the virus in the UK, with five confirmed negative and nine still awaiting results, Public Health England (PHE) said on Thursday night.

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The Wuhan government has announced it is building a hospital with 1,000 beds in the style of a facility constructed in Beijing during the Sars epidemic.

The hospital is expected to be completed on 3 February.

The prefabricated buildings were being erected around a holiday complex originally intended for local workers, set in gardens by a lake on the outskirts of the city.
Samuel Osborne
24 January 2020 10:08
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Disneyland in Shanghai will be closed to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, Zoe Tidman writes.

"In response to the prevention and control of the disease outbreak and in order to ensure the health and safety of our guests and Cast, Shanghai Disney Resort is temporarily closing Shanghai Disneyland, Disneytown," it said on its website.

"We will continue to carefully monitor the situation and... announce the reopening date upon confirmation."

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Samuel Osborne
24 January 2020 09:44
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The vast majority of cases have been in and around Wuhan, but people who visited or had personal connections to infected people were among the scattered cases counted beyond the mainland.

South Korea and Japan both confirmed their second cases on Friday and Singapore confirmed its third.

Cases have been detected in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, the United States, Thailand and Vietnam.

Many countries are screening travellers from China and isolating anyone with symptoms.
Samuel Osborne
24 January 2020 09:13
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Fourteen people in the UK have been tested for the coronavirus, with five confirmed negative and nine still waiting results, Public Health England said on Thursday night.

The Scottish government had earlier confirmed that five people were being examined after presenting with symptoms of the illness, while it was understood that another patient was being tested at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital.

While none of the UK cases has been confirmed as the virus so far, two of those being tested in Scotland had been diagnosed with influenza after travelling to Wuhan in China.

They all travelled to Scotland from Wuhan, where the outbreak is thought to have originated, within the past two weeks, and were showing symptoms of respiratory trouble, a red flag for the virus.
Samuel Osborne
24 January 2020 09:00
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It is "highly likely" cases of the new coronavirus will be found in the UK, the medical director of Public Health England has said.

"I think it's highly likely that we will have cases in the UK," Professor Paul Cosford, told the BBC.

"We do have a whole range of plans ready to go when that is the case and these are being implemented now."
Samuel Osborne
24 January 2020 08:42
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The number of confirmed cases of the new coronavirus has risen to 830, the National Health Commission said.

Some 26 people have died.
Samuel Osborne
24 January 2020 08:29
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Officials fear infection will spread rapidly as hundreds of millions travel for Lunar New Year holidays
Samuel Osborne
24 January 2020 08:21
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China has broadened its unprecedented lockdown to encompass around 41 million people in an attempt to contain a deadly new virus.

At least 13 cities have been shutdown in central China.

The vast majority of cases have been in and around Wuhan or people with connections the city, but outside the mainland, cases have been confirmed in Hong Kong, Macao, the United States, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand, Singapore and Vietnam.
Samuel Osborne
24 January 2020 08:29
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