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The United Kingdom will isolate those arriving from Wuhan for 14 days due to the coronavirus, which has killed 132 people, while Australia will evacuate its nationals from the Chinese city, epicenter of the virus, to a remote Indian island, about 2,360 kilometers northwest of Perth, in the state of Western Australia, where they will be quarantined.
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For its part, the US imposes coronavirus controls at 20 airports, reports Pablo Pardo . The US government has chartered a plane to repatriate its diplomats in Wuhan and other US citizens. The plane has made a stop to refuel in Alaska , where it landed this morning, before flying to southern California. The passengers, being isolated in the international terminal of the airport that is not connected with that of the national flights, will undergo a medical examination in the Australian city of Anchorage.
In addition to medical controls, the US government of Donald Trump does not rule out the cancellation of air routes between the two major world powers to curb the spread of the epidemic.
Some unconfirmed information indicates that the US authorities are considering the possibility of suspending all flights between the two countries , which would have a severe impact on the world economy. In that reflection are airlines such as Iberia, Air France and Lufthansa.
Flight Decisions
Iberia is analyzing the situation regarding the coronavirus outbreak in China before making a decision about its next flight to Shanghai, which is scheduled for Friday, January 31 from Madrid, reports Efe. Today, British Airways, its partner in the IAG holding company, has announced the immediate suspension of all its flights to mainland China, following an instruction from the United Kingdom to avoid flying into the country.
Iberia has explained that the airline is in contact with the main agencies involved, including the Ministry of Health and Foreign Affairs, before making a decision on their flights, reports Efe. The Spanish airline has stated that they will wait to see how the day unfolds to analyze the situation without urgency .
The British company makes several daily flights from London's Heathrow airport to Beijing and Shanghai while Iberia currently operates three flights a week between Madrid and Shanghai back and forth in an 330-200 Airbus in which 292 passengers travel.
The French company Air France, contacted by the AFP, said it maintains its flight program to China and has not been modified.
The gala company makes 10 weekly flights to Beijing and 13 to Shanghai from Paris.
Instead Air France suspended its three weekly flights to Wuhan, the city in which the epidemic arose.
The German airline group Lufthansa flies to China normally despite the coronavirus, but said today that it observes "very carefully" the situation. So far, all flights to China and from China have taken off as planned, Lufthansa reported.
Germany has confirmed three cases of infection by the Chinese coronavirus in the Webasto company, based in Bavaria, where the first infected works.
Also today, the Indonesian company Lion Air also announced that it was suspending its flights to the Asian country.
In recent days, Cathay Pacific Airways, United Airlines and Ural Airlines have suspended or modified their flight schedules.
Infection superior to SARS
The outbreak of pneumonia caused by a new coronavirus in China has already left at least 132 dead and 5,974 confirmed cases, a figure that already exceeds that recorded in the Asian giant between November 2002 and July 2003 during the severe epidemic of respiratory syndrome acute and severe (SARS).
In the central-eastern province of Hubei, whose capital is Wuhan (the epicenter of the outbreak), 3,554 confirmed cases and 125 deaths have been registered so far. Millions of people remain under a 'de facto' quarantine in that region to try to prevent the spread of the virus.
Despite the severity of the outbreak, provisional figures - still insufficient to draw conclusions - show that only slightly more than 2% of Wuhan's pneumonia cases end in death, while in the case of SARS - which caused 348 victims fatalities in China - mortality rates reached almost 10%.
The SARS also caused 167 deaths in the rest of the world, while the current virus has not yet caused any fatalities outside of China.
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