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#BREAKING China halts flights and trains out of virus outbreak city: state media

#BREAKING WHO extends emergency talks over China virus

#BREAKING WHO says Chinese measures & #39;minimising& #39; risk of virus spreading internationally

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China locks down cities to curb virus, but WHO says no global emergency

China locked down some 20 million people at the epicentre of a deadly virus outbreak on Thursday, but the World Health Organization said the disease did not yet constitute a global health emergency....

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The pathogen appears to be a new strain of coronavirus -- viruses that can cause diseases ranging from a cold to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which killed 349 people in mainland China and another 299 in Hong Kong 2002-2003 http://u.afp.com/34kB ">https://u.afp.com/34kB"...

City in lockdown.

China bans trains and planes from leaving Wuhan, seeking to seal off its 11 million inhabitants to contain the virus outbreak

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AFP map showing countries and regions with confirmed cases of 2019 Novel Coronavirus and the Wuhan Seafood Market in Hubei, China, identified as the centre of the outbreak

& #39;Everyone was wearing masks.& #39;

One of the last flights from Wuhan lands in Australia

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Hong Kong to turn holiday camps into quarantine zones as virus fears spike
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VIDEO: Hong Kong masks up as virus outbreak fears mount.

So far two people in the international financial hub have tested positive for the new coronavirus -- which is similar to the SARS pathogen

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