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There are over 40,000 confirmed Chinese and 900 dead. After the Lunar New Year holiday, all the large cities began to fight against fire, and President Xi Jinping was only on site tour.

This is correspondent to Beijing Jung Sung-yeop.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping visited a hospital specializing in infectious diseases in Beijing.

Shi, who wore a mask, encouraged local medical staff to connect Wuhan with burns.

I visited a resident council in Beijing to comfort the residents who are working on the quarantine.

It is the first time that Mr. Xi has come to the forefront, emphasizing the protection of the new corona, saying he is carrying out the People's War.

In many regions, except for Hubei province, the epicenter of the virus, after the Lunar New Year holiday, official return to work began, but the appearance of big cities such as Beijing was quite different from usual.

Many people are known to slow their return to work.

The epidemic leader, Zhongnan Mountain, says the new corona's maximum incubation period is 24 days, which is much longer than the 14 days known, and warned that containment could be extended.

Defense experts predict that large cities such as Beijing and Shanghai will face severe testing for four weeks when people return to work.

As quarantine proceeded in accordance with the blockade in each area, resistance from residents complained of inconvenience.

In Zhejiang, a man who refused to quarantine his home and assaulted the police was sentenced to September in prison.

There are 27 foreign infected people in China, including three confirmed Korean families.

The total number of confirmed patients exceeded 4,200 and the death toll exceeded 900.