Official From State Department
Travel Advisory January 30, 2020
China - Level 4: Do Not Travel
>Do not travel to China due to novel coronavirus first identified in Wuhan, China. On January 30, the World Health Organization has determined the rapidly spreading outbreak constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Travelers should be prepared for travel restrictions to be put into effect with little or no advance notice. Commercial carriers have reduced or suspended routes to and from China.
>Those currently in China should consider departing using commercial means. The Department of State has requested that all non-essential U.S. government personnel defer travel to China in light of the novel coronavirus.
>In an effort to contain the novel coronavirus, the Chinese authorities have suspended air, road, and rail travel in the area around Wuhan and placed restrictions on travel and other activities throughout the country. On January 23, 2020, the Department of State ordered the departure of all non-emergency U.S. personnel and their family members from Wuhan. The U.S. government has limited ability to provide emergency services to U.S. citizens in Hubei province.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a Warning for all of China.
>**Travel warning: CDC recommends that travelers avoid all nonessential travel to China. **
https://preview.redd.it/25f2mqzul1c41.png?width=590&format=png&auto=webp&s=1cc7b74b623df343a1cc4acc2d336443ab3ec85e
WHO to convene emergency meeting as China virus spreads
Agency will meet on Wednesday to decide whether to declare outbreak 'public health emergency of international concern'.
A World Health Organization (WHO) emergency panel will meet this week to discuss a new SARS-like virus that has spread beyond China and that officials in Beijing have said is contagious between humans.
The new coronavirus strain, first discovered in the central city of Wuhan, has caused alarm because of its connection to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).
SARS originated in southern China in 2002 and spread to Hong Kong and elsewhere in the world, infecting thousands of people. More than 800 people died.
https://preview.redd.it/ugiabgb8l1c41.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=84dcdca8f6352e879b0eb53978fa7daaa41c6546
The total number of people diagnosed with the new virus has risen to 218, with cases confirmed in Beijing, Shanghai and the southern province of Guangdong province. A third person died in Wuhan, the local health commission said.
The WHO panel will meet in Geneva on Wednesday to determine whether to declare the outbreak "a public health emergency of international concern" - a rare designation only used for the gravest epidemics.
WHO said earlier that an animal source seemed to be "the most likely primary source," with "some limited human-to-human transmission occurring between close contacts."
Cases expected to increase
A seafood market in Wuhan is believed to be the centre of the outbreak.
But Zhong Nanshan, a renowned scientist at China's National Health Commission who helped expose the scale of the SARS outbreak, said patients could contract the new virus without having visited the city.
"Currently, it can be said it is affirmative that there is the phenomenon of human-to-human transmission," he said in an interview with CCTV.
In Guangdong, two patients were infected by family members who visited Wuhan, while 14 medical staff helping wit
... keep reading on reddit ➡