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January 19, 2020 09.02 There are 17 new cases of the Sars-like virus in Wuhan, China. Three are serious. The news raises particular alarm in view of the Lunar New Year, for which millions of people will move within the country. It is a new strain of coronavirus, associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars), which killed 650 people between 2002 and 2003 between China and Hong Kong. In Wuhan, 62 people have been infected so far, 8 in serious condition, 19 recovered, the others in isolation. Two deaths.