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The National Health Commission of China has confirmed the transmission among humans of the new coronarivus (2019-nCoV) responsible for pneumonia that has already killed three people in the central-eastern city of Wuhan and more than 200 people infected in the country, the Xinhua state news agency.

The leader of the expert team of the said Commission, Zhong Nanshan, said that at least two patients in the southern province of Canton have contracted the virus through human contact.

"The patients became infected after their relatives traveled to Wuhan (city of 11 million inhabitants and epicenter of the outbreak) and became infected," Zhong said.

The expert also added that several health workers had been infected.

However, Zhong said that "it only took two weeks to identify the new coronavirus" and said that a situation like the one that occurred during the 2003 acute acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic, which left 646 deaths in the Asian country ( 813 worldwide).

At 18:00 local time on Monday (10:00 GMT time), the number of confirmed infections in China was 217.

The respiratory disease specialist explained that the constant detection of new cases indicates that "the epidemic is still at an early stage," according to Xinhua.

Zhong foresaw an increase in contagion in the coming days, as Friday starts the holidays for the Chinese New Year, which causes the largest human migration on the planet, but was confident in managing to contain the spread of the new coronavirus with rapid diagnoses , proper treatment and quarantine.

For its part, the World Health Organization (WHO) will hold tomorrow, day 22, a meeting of experts to determine if the current outbreak for coronavirus in China constitutes an international emergency.

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