Chinese President Xi Jinping inspected efforts to contain the Wuhan coronavirus in the capital Beijing on Monday, the first time he has appeared on the front lines of the fight against the outbreak.
A worker wearing a protective suit uses a machine to disinfect business premises in Shanghai on February 9, 2020. Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Imagesoutpacing the global death tollof the virus have been confirmed worldwide, with the vast majority of those in mainland China.
The country began going back to work Monday, after the Lunar New Year holiday became an extended quarantine for hundreds of millions in an effort to contain the spread of the virus. Even though businesses are gradually resuming operations,The largest outbreak outside mainland China is on board a cruise ship docked in the Japanese port of Yokohama, south of Tokyo. As of Monday afternoon local tinme,.
The UK has declared the Wuhan coronavirus a"serious and imminent threat to public health," as cases were confirmed in more than
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