The World Health Organisation has called for preparations to be made immediately as the escalating epidemic must be tackled ‘super fast’
A masked reveller walks on San Marco square in Venice, Italy, on February 25 2020, during the usual period of the carnival festivities which have been cancelled following an outbreak of the Covid-19 novel coronavirus in northern Italy. Picture: AFP/ANDREA PATTARO
The disease is believed to have originated in a market selling wildlife in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019 and has infected about 80,000 people and killed more than 2,700, most of whom were in China. “Think the virus is going to show up tomorrow. If you don’t think that way, you’re not going to be ready,’ he said.
South Korea, which with 1,261 cases has the most outside China, reported 284 new ones including a US soldier, as authorities readied an ambitious plan to test more than 200,000 members of a church at the centre of the outbreak. Japan has nearly 170 virus cases and 691 linked to a cruise ship that was quarantined in February. Six people have died in Japan, including four from the ship.
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