Nine people died from the new coronavirus that appeared in December in a market in Wuhan, China. - Ken Satomi / AP / SIPA

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  • Appeared at the beginning of December on a market in Wuhan, the coronavirus has already killed 41 people, listed this Saturday. The number of confirmed cases of contamination has now reached 1,287, according to the authorities, and of this total, 237 cases are considered to be “critical”.
  • 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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10:00 am: According to the New China agency, 450 doctors and other medical personnel of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) arrived by plane in Wuhan (central China) this Saturday, to participate in the fight against the new coronaviruses.

9:54 am: Early this Saturday morning, the Australian authorities indicated that a first case of the coronavirus had been detected on their territory.

He is a patient who joined Melbourne a week ago from the city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the epidemic.

9:30 am: Hello everyone and welcome to this live.

We make you follow the propagation of the coronavirus in China and beyond its borders, the warnings and the consequences which ensue from it. Close to SARS, the coronavirus has already caused 41 confirmed deaths and 1,287 people are affected.

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