The second city isolate in China as part of the struggle against the new coronavirus

China’s authorities made decisions from Thursday to ban the departure of residents from the city of Juangan, on the territory of which cases of disease were identified with a new dangerous coronavirus, Interfax reports with reference to the website of the city administration.

As noted in the message, local residents are forbidden to leave Juangan, if they have no particular reason. In addition, the city is suspended in public transport. Cinemas, Internet cafes and other entertainment institutions are also temporarily closed in Juangan. The work of the Central City Market was also temporarily suspended.

The population of the Huangan is more than 6 million people. It is located near the city of Ujan, from which the virus began to spread. Both settlements are located in the province of Hubay. In Jun, the traffic to other cities has also been suspended from Thursday.

In another Chinese city - Ezhou - earlier on Thursday, the railway station was also temporarily closed, but so far the ban on the exit of the inhabitants was not announced. About 1.1 million people live in Ezhou, also located in the province of Hubay.

Meanwhile, the Singapore Ministry of Health confirmed the first case of infection with a new type of coronavirus, the appearance of which was previously recorded in China in the city of Wuan, Bloomberg reports on Thursday with reference to local media.

Earlier it was reported that seven people were hospitalized in Singapore to verify the virus. In addition, cases of the disease have already been recorded in Thailand, Japan, South Korea, USA, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau.

The outbreak of pneumonia in the Chinese city of Ujan was recorded in December 2019 (the first case was dated December 12), the pathogen became the previously unknown coronavirus (2019-NCOV, the virus genome has already been deciphered and published).

According to the latest data, 617 people infected the virus, 17 people died. The day before, the arrival of Pulkovo and Sheremetyevo passengers with symptoms of SARS was reported to the Russian airports, but their coronavirus was not laboratory.

The World Health Organization (WHO) held an emergency meeting of the Extraordinary Committee on January 22 because of the coronavirus, but the final decision is whether the new virus is not made by the global threat; As expected, consultations in WHO continue on Thursday, January 23. A representative of Rospotrebnadzor takes part in them.

The first sick people were visitors to the local seafood market, it was later established that the virus was transmitted from person to person. According to the latest data, 217 people became infected, four died. Cases of the disease are recorded in South Korea, Japan and Thailand. British scientists believe that about 1.7 thousand people have already been picked up by the new coronavirus.

At 13:00 Thursday, the number of confirmed cases of infection with new coronavirus in China was 613, CGTN said. Beijing authorities decided to cancel all the holiday events on the occasion of the New Year on the lunar calendar, the European media reported.

Such a step went to such a step due to the fears of the further spread of coronavirus in the country. In the China, the New Year according to the lunar calendar will be celebrated on the night of January 24-25.