China has stepped up its response to a new coronavirus outbreak that has killed 41 people and infected at least 1,287 as of Saturday, placing restrictions on 13 cities, including 12 in Hubei Province – the centre of the outbreak.To get more shanghai breaking news, you can visit shine news official website.

At least 36 million people are living in the affected cities, some of which have suspended public transport amid fears that the transmission rate will accelerate as hundreds of millions of Chinese travel for the Lunar New Year.

Health authorities around the world are taking action to prevent a global pandemic, with cases reported in Japan, Thailand, South Korea and the United States.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has acknowledged that the respiratory illness, which has been traced to the city of Wuhan, is an emergency in China. But WHO said it is too early to declare it a global health emergency.France has announced late on Friday the third confirmed case of the conronavirus. Earlier on Friday, officials had confirmed two cases, the first in Europe.

Surgical masks selling out in New York’s China Town
More than a dozen pharmacies in New York City’s China Town had run out of face masks or only had a few left on Friday.

Pharmacists said hundreds of locals had rushed to buy masks for protection from the newly discovered coronavirus.

First two cases of coronavirus in Europe confirmed in France
French Minister for Solidarity and Health Agnes Buzyn has "confirmed” two cases of the coronavirus in the country, the first reported incidents of the respiratory illness in Europe.

The first case involved a patient in hospital in the southwestern city of Bordeaux while the other was in Paris, Buzyn told reporters.

First South Asia coronavirus case reported in Nepal
A Nepali student who returned from Wuhan has tested positive for the coronavirus, health officials in Nepal said in a statement, making it the first case reported in South Asia.

The 32-year-old student arrived in Nepal on January 9, and entered the Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital in Kathmandu four days after running a fever and reporting trouble breathing, hospital spokesperson Anup Bastola told AFP.

"The results of a sample, sent to Hong Kong, have returned positive,” Bastola told AFP, noting that the patient was discharged after recovery.”We are monitoring the patient and he and his family members are healthy. So are all the health workers in the hospital,” he added.Health officials in the state of Illinois announced the second case of coronavirus in the US, located in the city of Chicago, local media outlet CBS Chicago reported.

According to CBS, the patient is a woman in her 60s, who had travelled to Wuhan in December.The woman returned from China on January 13 without initially showing any signs of illness, but a few days later, she called her doctor to report feeling sick.

Doctors with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say the woman is hospitalised to prevent the spread of the virus and is doing well, and those she had been in close contact with are being monitored.

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