More than 2,000 people globally have been infected with a new coronavirus, the v...
SHANGHAI - More than 2,000 people globally have been infected with a new coronavirus, the vast majority of them in China, where 56 people have died from the disease, according to figures released on Sunday.
The virus, believed to have originated late last year in a seafood market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan that was illegally selling wildlife, has spread to Chinese cities including Beijing and Shanghai, as well as the United States, Thailand, South Korea, Japan, Australia, France and Canada. The outbreak has prompted widening curbs on movements within China, with Wuhan, a city of 11 million, on virtual lockdown, with transports links all-but severed except for emergency vehicles.
On Saturday, Canada declared the first “presumptive” confirmed case of the virus in a resident who had returned from Wuhan. The patient, a male in his 50s, arrived in Toronto on Jan. 22 and was hospitalized the next day after developing symptoms of respiratory illness, officials said. In Hong Kong, with five confirmed cases, the city’s leader Carrie Lam said flights and high speed rail trips between the city and Wuhan will be halted. Schools in Hong Kong that are currently on Lunar New Year holidays will remain closed until Feb. 17.
Shanghai Disneyland, which expected 100,000 visitors daily through the Lunar New Year holidays, has already closed.According to data from Chinese movie-ticketing company Maoyan, owned by China’s on-demand service giant Meituan Dianping, China’s cinemas earned 1.81 million yuan from movie tickets on January 25, down more than 99% from 1.46 billion yuan on the Lunar New Year Day in 2019.
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