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‘Ten times worse than SARS’: Chilling warning about Chinese coronavirus

China is locking down more cities, including its famous The Forbidden City, as the deadly coronavirus spreads rapidly.

Megan Palin and wires
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January 24, 20207:08am
 
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Chinese police officers wear protective masks as they patrol before the annual Spring Festival at a Beijing railway station on January 23, 2020 in Beijing, China. Picture: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images.Source:Getty Images



Chinese authorities have moved to lock down multiple cities home to more than 18 million people in an unprecedented effort to contain the deadly coronavirus.

The respiratory virus has claimed 17 lives since emerging from a seafood and animal market in the central city of Wuhan, infected over 500 people nationwide and been detected as far away as the United States.

The deadly virus has also caused a fatality outside the epicentre of the outbreak for the first time, with authorities reporting a death in Hebei province, near Beijing. The victim, aged 80, died on Wednesday but the cause was not confirmed until Thursday (CST), the South China Post reports.

Yi Guan, a prominent virologist, warned the virus showed signs of being far worse than severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) after travelling to Wuhan. “Conservative estimates suggest that the scale of infection may eventually be 10 times higher than SARS,” he said.

In 2002-03 SARS infected more than 8000 people, killing 774.

Wuhan was put on lockdown Thursday, with outbound trains and planes indefinitely suspended. Tollways on roads out of the city were closed as well.

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