In 25 provinces and cities of China declared the highest level of emergency because of the coronavirus
. Due to the outbreak of coronavirus, the Chinese authorities have introduced the highest level of emergency response in public health in 25 provinces, municipalities and special administrative regions.
. Due to the outbreak of coronavirus, the Chinese authorities have introduced the highest level of emergency response in public health in 25 provinces, municipalities and special administrative regions.
Only the current territory is inhabited by over 1.2 billion people.
Usually I response level is declared in the case of particularly large emergencies related to the health of the residents, and assumes that the local government responds to them according to the plan of the state Council and Central staff.
The first higher level announced Hubei province, where is the source of the virus - the city of Wuhan. Later On similar measures, said city under the Central government Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing and Tianjin.
Now they were joined by Guangdong, Henan, Hunan, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Shandong, Yunnan, Guizhou, Fujian, Jiangsu, Hainan, Heilongjiang, Hebei, Gansu, Liaoning, Shanxi, and the Xinjiang Uygur and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous regions.
Outbreak of pneumonia of unknown causes in Wuhan were announced on 31 December. How figured out the experts, the causative agent of the disease was a new type of coronavirus - 2019-nCoV.
The first cases were related to the seafood market, it is expected that the source of the virus could become a snake, which in China often take in food. It was later announced that the Virus is transmitted from person to person.
according to the final data, only in China contracted the virus 1287 people, 41 patients died.
The virus has spread beyond China, cases of infection were recorded, for example, in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan, South Korea, USA, Vietnam, Singapore, Nepal, France, Australia and Malaysia.
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