Deadly Coronavirus Spreading Fast In China
Epidemic Coronavirus has captured the world's attention, after causing a lockdown of 56 million people in China, disrupting travel plans around the globe infecting millions of people.
The coronavirus was discovered last year after having infected after it had been recognized to have infected people in the seafood and live animal market of Wuhan in China.
The deadly virus is said to have emerged from a nonhuman animal, probably a bat.
Higher numbers of suspected cases of the virus is rising daily, with the virus being declared a global health emergency by the world health organization.
China has effectively quarantined nearly 20 million people across Wuhan and some nearby cities in response to the virus and announced measures to curb its spread nationwide as hundreds of millions of people have been traveling across the country last week for the lunar new year.
China is racing to build hospitals to treat the rapidly growing number of patients stricken by a deadly virus.
This hospital is one of two makeshift hospitals that Chinese authorities are rushing to build within a fortnight in the city of 11 million people to relieve medical facilities swamped with patients waiting for hours to see doctors.
The work to build fire Gold Mountain started Friday and is due to be ready to receive patients by February 3, the second one named Thunder God Mountain will be ready for use on February 5.
Several African countries have introduced extra screening on flights arriving from China after a woman from the ivory coast was suspected to have been infected with the virus last week when she boarded a plane from China to Abidjan, she is currently in isolation after she had shown symptoms of the deadly virus.
Like influenza, this coronavirus spreads through both direct and indirect contact. Direct contact occurs through the physical transfer of the microorganism among friends and family through close contact with oral secretions.
Indirect contact results when an infected person coughs or sneezes, spreading coronavirus droplets on nearby surfaces, including knobs, bedrails, and smartphones.
Global stocks and oil plunged investors fled risky assets for safer bets after China warned that a deadly new Coronavirus was spreading fast.
The outbreak has caused a major panic in markets.
