Human-to-human transmission confirmed in coronavirus outbreak
The late-night announcement capped a day in which authorities announced a sharp uptick in the number of confirmed cases to more than 200, and China's leader called on the government to take every possible step to combat the outbreak."The recent outbreak of novel coronavirus pneumonia in Wuhan and other places must be taken seriously," President Xi Jiping said in his first public statement on the crisis.
South Korea reported its first case Monday, when a 35-year-old Chinese woman from Wuhan tested positive for the new coronavirus one day after arriving at Seoul's Incheon airport. The woman has been isolated at a state-run hospital in Incheon city, just west of Seoul, the Korea Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement.
Many of the initial cases of the coronavirus were linked to a seafood market in Wuhan, which was closed as authorities investigated. "However, the source of the new type of coronavirus has not been found, we do not fully understand how the virus is transmitted, and changes in the virus still need to be closely monitored," the commission said in a statement Sunday.
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