The city of Wuhan has been put on lockdown today in an effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus outbreak in China, @JessHamzelou reports. Flights and trains out of the city have been cancelled. #wuhancoronavirus
@JessHamzelou The total number of cases has risen to 618 in China, with 17 deaths. The @WHO emergency committee is convening today to decide if it should call a public health emergency of international concern. #WuhanCoronavirus
@JessHamzelou @WHO A genetic study has reported that the virus may have been transmitted to people from snakes, which may have caught it from bats in the food market where both species were sold. newscientist.com/article/223116…
Coronaviruses are a family of viruses that include the common cold, SARS and MERS – here’s an explainer for more background newscientist.com/term/coronavir…
@JessHamzelou @WHO (Snakes and bats are not species, obvs. We should have said both animals.)
