Nine members of same family confirmed with Coronavirus after sharing Hotpot meal

Amid unprecedented coronavirus outbreak, nine members of a Hong Kong family were reportedly infected with dely SARS-like disease after sharing a hotpot meal. According to international media reports, two of family members including a 24-year-old man and his grandmor were initially infected with virus but later man's far, mor, two aunts and three cousins were also infected. Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection reportedly stated that family was part of a garing of 19 who shared hotpot meal over Lunar New Year holiday. 

According to reports, coronavirus death toll in China has w reached 908 with 3,052 ditional cases confirmed by health authorities taking overall number of cases to 40,171. China’s National Health Commission said it confirmed new cases and 97 ditional deaths mostly in Hubei province, where city of Wuhan lies. 91 deaths were in Hubei province, epicentre of epidemic, two in Anhui, and one each in Heilongjiang, Jiangxi, Hainan and Gansu, according to commission.

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WHO to convene a forum

Meanwhile, World Health Organisation informed on Monday that it is convening a global research and invation forum to mobilize international action in response to new coronavirus (2019-nCoV). forum, to be held on February 11-12 in Geneva, is organized in collaboration with Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness. forum will bring toger key players including leing scientists as well as public health ncies, ministries of health and research funders pursuing 2019-nCoV critical animal health and public health research and development of vaccines, rapeutics and diagstics, among or invations.

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outbreak took place in Wuhan in January and multiple countries have started evacuating ir citizens from country, and have decided to restrict entry of foreigners returning from China. World Health Organization (WHO) declared Coronavirus as a 'global public health emergency'.

In order to tackle spreing virus, WHO stated that international community has furr launched a USD 675 million preparedness and response plan covering months of February through to April 2020. Earlier, WHO h also warned international public health authorities that Wuhan Virus was of a significant threat to nations outside mainland China and disease's pandemic nature enforced a global response to outbreak.

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