The days in China where the coronavirus is spreading rapidly and the cases are constantly increasing are dramatic. The photos and videos that are uploaded to social media are shocking.
People infected with the deadly virus collapse on the street, helpless. In some cases, medical staff in RBP (radio-biochemical protection) uniforms and oxygen masks rush to help.
And all this while citizens pass by the spot and do nothing; fearing that they will catch the deadly virus.
Wuhans call it a "zombie city," according to The Sun, noting that the streets in the Hubei provincial capital are almost deserted and that men in protective uniforms are patrolling.
At least 26 dead from the deadly virus
Ο coronaios has sounded the alarm in China while 26 people have died. The deadly virus spreads rapidly while the death toll rises as the hours go by.
China has for the first time released a photo of what the deadly virus looks like.
More specifically, the country's national database of pathogenic microorganisms has decided to publish the image of the new coronavirus, as it appears under a microscope.
BREAKING: This is what the #coronavirus looks like #China released the first strain of virus information and its electron micrographs, new coronavirus nucleic acid detection primers and probe sequences, and other important info. #WuhanCoronavirus #wuhan #WuhanPneumonia pic.twitter.com/PjzrhRj9X1
- AS-Source News (@ASBreakingNews) January 24, 2020
The photo immediately went viral on social media.
Quarantined 10 cities in China
China is resorting to big means in its effort to curb the new coronavirus epidemic, while 10 cities are in quarantine, while many tens of millions of people are excluded. But even these large media may prove inadequate, experts warn.
On Thursday, Chinese authorities decided to ban trains and planes from leaving Wuhan, the city considered to be the epicenter. epidemic of which 26 people have already lost their lives and more than 800 have been infected.
Buses and ships crossing the Yangtze River, China's largest river that also crosses the Wuhan, have been ordered to suspend their services. The highways have been closed, and the operation of public transport has been suspended in this city of 11 million inhabitants, as well as in nine of its neighbors. In total, more than 40 million people are affected by these unprecedented measures.
Besides, today its state television China announced that the authorities will take even stricter measures to control the spread of the virus, as broadcast by Reuters and relayed by the Athens News Agency.
For Gao Fu, director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, "if Uhan is under control, there may be no new cases in other parts of China."
But these emergency measures were probably taken too late, experts warn.
Wuhan is a geographical, commercial and tourist crossroads, which may have facilitated the spread of the virus, which appeared in December and spread to the United States.