Lately, there is this news about a unknown type of coronavirus spreading in Wu Han, China. Reportedly caused an outbreak of pneumonia affecting a few hundred people.
As of today, the Chinese authorities had ordered that no public transport should be running in Wu Han, no flights in or out of the city of 11 million people. everyone should wear masks in public. Basically, the order is to prevent the spread of the virus. No one, including people trying to leave the city for their hometown to celebrate the Chinese New Year would be allowed to leave.
There were also cases suspected and unconfirmed found in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Macau and US. A number of countries have already imposed stringent checks on people coming from China or discouraging its people from traveling to China, especially Wu Han.
It appears that memories of the SAR epidemic outbreak in 2003 brought fear in people, you could see that masks are flying off the shelf of shops. More people are wear masks. In Singapore, the authorities advised its public that there is no need to use N95 masks, rather, just get the surgical masks is good enough.
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