Media caption ‘Wuhan, add oil!’: Watch residents shouting to boost morale in quarantined city. Videos have emerged online of neighbours shouting ‘Wuhan jiayou!’ out of their windows - roughly translated to ‘Stay strong Wuhan!’ or ‘Keep on going Wuhan’. Wuhan people cry out ‘stay strong’ from windows Most forms of traffic have been banned, and 11 million people are shut up in their homes, trying to minimise the spread of the virus. The city's residents are enduring an isolated, frightening time. He said that China “needs the world's solidarity and support,” and that “the world is pulling together to end the outbreak, building on lessons learned from past outbreaks.” What's happening in Wuhan? WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who visited China this week, said most people who contracted the virus were suffering only “milder symptoms”, but about 20% had severe effects such as pneumonia and respiratory failure. Scientists in Australia have managed to recreate the new coronavirus outside of China, raising hope that it could be used to develop an early-diagnosis test. We believe these chains of transmission can still be interrupted,” he said. “We are at an important juncture in this event. The WHO's Dr Ryan said an international team of experts was being assembled to go to China and work with experts there to learn more about how the disease is transmitted. A number of people have recovered after treatment, however. More than 170 people have died in China and close to 8,000 have been infected. The Chinese city of Wuhan is the epicentre of the outbreak.īut the virus has spread across China and to at least 20 countries globally, including Thailand, France, the US and Australia. Dr Mike Ryan praised China's response to the deadly outbreak, saying: “The challenge is great but the response has been massive.”
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