The WHO said on Friday it was a bit premature to define a new type of coronavirus as a public health emergency of international concern. Pneumonia epidemic population rises. After Wuhan implements the traffic control, the supermarket appears the purchase tide, the food price rises overnight.
Picture: People sweep goods at a supermarket in Wuhan
After the World Health Organization`s emergency committee met on Friday, it was a bit premature to define the new type of coronavirus as a public health emergency of international concern.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO`s director general, is quoted on the group`s website as:& quot; This is no doubt an emergency in China, but it has not become, but is likely to be, a global health emergency. He also told the media that, like the previous day`s meeting, expert commissioners were divided. Didier Houssin, the committee`s chairman, said dissenters were divided, arguing that there were fewer cases outside China at this time and that it was too early to be announced, and that China`s authorities had taken steps to stop the epidemic, the agency reported. But the emergency committee urged other countries to be prepared to prevent the epidemic from spreading globally. Tan Desai noted that the current epidemic in China is an emergency, but in the world has not become an emergency. The Committee expressed its readiness to meet again in approximately ten days or earlier when the Director-General deemed it necessary.
The number of people with pneumonia in wuhan rose to 25. China`s mainland has 830 diagnoses and death 25 diagnoses, state-run cctv reported friday. On New Year`s Eve, airlines have launched measures to prevent the new coronavirus that began in Wuhan. Several airlines announced they would cancel flights to and from Wuhan after the announcement, including Korean Airways, Singapore Economic Airlines, TWWA and Japan`s all-day air space, Reuters reported.
After the city of wuhan, hubei, thursday evening local time began, neighboring huanggang city, chibi city, xiantao city, zhijiang city, lichuan city, qianjiang city, ezhou city has also announced the beginning of the suspension of land-based traffic, requiring residents for no special reasons to leave urban areas, the cumulative city of eight cities.
After Wuhan announced the traffic control, the local supermarket appeared the purchase tide, the food price soared. 《 Beijing News reported that the streets were empty as people lined up to buy vegetables. Hong Kong 01& quot; reported that a cabbage at the Wushang supermarket costs $51.5, a bag of five tomatoes at $52.5, and a bag of fresh tea mushrooms at Carrefour at $210. Some netizens criticized merchants for being unscrupulous and called on government to control prices. A Taiwanese businessman who couldn`t get home told China Electronics News that he had had to go to the supermarket early to buy food because he wanted to go back to Taiwan.
To prevent the spread of the virus, Beijing has cancelled a traditional celebration of a large temple fair, and the Forbidden City was declared closed indefinitely on Saturday.
Wuhan provinces does not say when. Around the world, large-scale segregation is rare even when a deadly epidemic spreads because of concerns that violate human rights.
In Beijing, Gauden Galea, the World Health Organisation`s representative to China, said:`As far as I know, trying to block a city of 11 million people is a novelty in science. Such public health measures are rare. At this stage, we cannot judge whether the measure will work. []
During the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014(also known as Ebola, Ebola), Sierra Leone imposed a three-day nationwide quarantine that allowed people to stay at home for three days, and health-care workers came to check new cases, remove bodies and try to stop the disease from spreading further. Frustrated people complain about food shortages.
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