The coronavirus has now infected more people in China than SARS has, with the death toll rising to 133. 9News
SARS carried a 9.6 per cent fatality rate and infected 8098 people across the globe.It originated from horseshoe bats in Yunnan Province in China's south.
Google has closed all of its Chinese offices, and Bytedance, which owns TikTok, has told employees to work from home., construction crews are rushing to finish a 1000-bed hospital which they started building last week. China has now banned all wildlife trade, after the virus was linked back to a seafood market in Wuhan which sells wild animals as food.Read more:
And in Shanghai, queues lining up outside pharmacies have jostled and shoved each other in order to buy masks.Experts warn that face masks do little to protect healthy people from getting sick.
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