Total number of confirmed coronavirus cases reaches 7,711, with more than 170 dead and another 81,000 people have been placed under observation for possible infection
Medical staff in protective suits treat a patient with pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus at the Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. January 28, 2020.
Airlines have suspended services to China and companies from Starbucks to Tesla have shuttered stores and production lines. The pathogen is believed to have been spawned in a market that sold wild game, spreading far and wide by a Lunar New Year holiday season in which hundreds of millions of Chinese travel domestically or abroad.Japan's infection rate grew to 11 after three Japanese citizens among more than 200 on an evacuation flight Wednesday tested positive.
A US charter flight from Wuhan arrived Wednesday at a California military base with nearly 200 consular staff and other Americans, who "cheered loudly" when the jet touched down, said an official with US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A growing number of governments – including the US, Britain and Germany – have advised their citizens to avoid non-essential travel to China.
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