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- Coronavirus appeared on a market in Wuhan in early December and has already killed 26 people. The number of confirmed cases of contamination has now reached 830, and the number of suspected cases exceeds a thousand, the National Health Commission announced on Friday morning.
- At the end of a two-day meeting at its headquarters in Geneva, the World Health Organization recognized on Thursday "the emergency in China" but judged that it was "too early" to speak of "emergency of international public health ”.
- The Chinese authorities have nevertheless decided to quarantine the city of Wuhan, and its 11 million inhabitants, which seems to be at the center of this epidemic.
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8:35 am: Bad news for Mickey fans
Disneyland amusement park in Shanghai announced on Friday, the first day of the Chinese New Year holiday, that it will remain closed until further notice due to the spread of the virus which has already infected more than 800 people in China.
The decision was made "for the prevention and control of the epidemic and to preserve the health" of its customers and staff, said Shanghai Disney on its website.
8:33 am: A second death confirmed outside the cradle of the epidemic
China confirmed on Friday a second death from the new coronavirus outside the epicenter of the epidemic, which killed a total of 26 patients. The person died in Heilongjiang (northeast), a province bordering Russia, local officials said without providing further details.
This province is located more than 1,800 km as the crow flies from Wuhan (center), the city of 11 million inhabitants where the vast majority of cases of contamination and deaths due to the virus have been recorded since December.
Another case had been announced shortly before in Hebei, the province surrounding Beijing. It was an 80-year-old man. The other victims were between the ages of 48 and 89 and suffered from pre-existing illnesses, according to health officials. They all died in Hubei, the province of which Wuhan is the capital.
8:27 am: Hello and welcome to this live
Here Manon, we will follow together the situation related to the new coronavirus, which appeared in December on a Chinese market in Wuhan. This virus, close to SARS, has already killed 26 people. Nearly 830 people are infected and the number of suspected cases now exceeds one thousand, according to Chinese authorities.
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