Vietnam airlines to suspend flights to and from mainland China amid Coronavirus outbreak

Vietnam Airlines has recently anunced that it will be suspending operations to China, Hong Kong and Taiwan from February 8. This extreme measure has been taken amid growing fears of new Chinese coronavirus. virus has been spreing quickly in China and in Wuhan province where it has infected thousands of people.

Flights suspended grually

airline in a statement said that it will be suspending flight in phase, flights between Vietnam and Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen will be suspended from Tuesday itself while flights to and from Chengdu will be suspended from next day. Flights to Macau will be suspended from Thursday onwards.

airline in its statement vised all passengers, especially Vietnamese that were visiting China to just ir plans to fly back home. statement also ded that airline will be suspending flights between Hai and Hong Kong from Thursday and also reduce regularity of flights between Ho Chi Minh City and Hong Kong to 7 from 10 per week.

Vietnamese Government also anunced on Thursday that it will stop issuing visas for Chinese tourists after three cases of coronavirus were discovered in Vietnam.

infection could be worse than reported

A recent study published by a team led by Gabriel Leung from University of Hong Kong has reported that actual number of people that have been infected by dely new coronavirus could be as high as 75,000 people that is a staggering ten times official number provided by Chinese authorities.

According to Chinese officials, number of confirmed cases has crossed 10,000 with over 250 deaths alrey. According to study, discrepancy between ir figure and figures of government could be caused by a time lag between infection and symptom onset, delays in infected persons getting medical treatment, and time needed to confirm cases with lab tests.

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study ded that each infected person may have possibly infected a minimum of two or three more people and if number of confirmed cases keeps increasing in same rate as it has in past few weeks n it is possible that re alrey growing epidemics in multiple Chinese cities just a week or two behind Wuhan.

In more chilling news, study also said that large overseas cities which have close transport links to China could also become outbreak centres. Confirmed cases of dely new coronavirus have alrey been discovered in or nations like Japan, Singapore and most recent one being in India.

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(with inputs from ncies)