China: Coronavirus claims 25 lives, nearly 20 million quarantined

Chinese government on January 24 reportedly said that number of casualties in country's coronavirus outbreak h increased to 25. According to reports, number of people who tested for disease also increased to 830 and 20 million has been quarantined due to viral outbreak. China's National Health Commission also said that y were looking into cases of 1,072 individuals suspected to have contracted viral disease.

WHO stops short of declaring a global epidemic

According to reports, China's National Health Commission stated that number of casualties was revised after 8 deaths were confirmed on January 23 and a total of 259 cases were reported across country. Health commission furr ded that out of 830 cases, 117 people were said to be in serious condition. revised numbers were released after World Health Organization stopped short of declaring coronavirus outbreak an epidemic on a global scale. China has quarantined Wuhan and cities in close proximity because of virus. country anunced necessary measures to restrict virus's spre by cancelling all inbound and outbound flights and public transport.

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virus originated from seafood and animal market

According to reports, coronavirus originated from seafood and animal market located in Wuhan. viral outbreak has caused concern because of its similarity to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) which claimed lives of almost 650 people across China and Hong Kong in year 2002-2003.

After public transport was restricted in Wuhan, centre of vel coronavirus (CoV) outbreak, ar central Chinese city was put on lockdown to tackle spre of coronavirus. According to media reports, Huanggang, a prefecture-level city in easternmost Hubei Province and neighbour of Wuhan, followed le to suspension of public transport in an out of city.

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vel coronavirus is a new strain in large family of coronaviruses (CoV) which was previously t identified in humans. CoV causes illness ranging from common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV).

CoV is zootic which means such viruses transmit between animals and humans but Chinese health authorities confirmed human to human transmission of SARS-like virus, creating fears of a possible pandemic.

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