More virus craziness.
Taiwanese musician Jay Chou allegedly inside a quarantine unit:
The inside of a bullet train heading towards Hubei province (source):
Stay out of my village:
Meanwhile… this man is trying to stop strangers from entering to his village pic.twitter.com/ajo6UZ2fam
— Keith Zhai (@QiZHAI) January 26, 2020
Build that hospital quick:
Construction began on the night of January 23 for a new specialized hospital for #coronavirus patients in central China's #Wuhan City.
The hospital is designed to have an area of 25,000 square meters with 1,000 beds and will be put into use by February 3 pic.twitter.com/ePQoxJnM0y
— CGTN (@CGTNOfficial) January 24, 2020
Almost all of Hebei province is being cordoned off:
All cities but two in Hubei province is under lockdown. #WuhanCoronavirus 湖北全省仅神农架和襄阳两个地级市未封城 pic.twitter.com/HixOQAWetO
— Wu Lebao (@MerlotN) January 26, 2020
Some 56 million people are affected.
As one person commented, “This scene is usually about 15 minutes into the 2 hour movie”:
Surrounded by anxious and mask-wearing reporters during a press conference on Sunday, Chinese CDC official Gao Fu attempts to calm everyone down. "The virus is crazy. We don't want to be crazy." https://t.co/J1CQ4PcTA0 #WuhanCoronavirus pic.twitter.com/NexoTbf6jM
— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) January 26, 2020
First official dead:
Latest: Wang Xianliang, director of the #Wuhan municipal committee of civil affairs and the leader of the bureau, died of pneumonia caused by the new #coronavirus. This is the FIRST official died of the new coronavirus. pic.twitter.com/NqmSz9HsEp
— Secret Beijing (@Secret_Beijing) January 27, 2020
First infant infected:
First recorded case of infant being infected of #nCoV2019 was reported in Beijing tonight. The baby girl is only 9 months old and has travel history in Wuhan. pic.twitter.com/n7vmJ9juyX
— Xinqi Su 蘇昕琪 (@XinqiSu) January 26, 2020
A hot topic:
The #coronavirus discussion on Weibo has reached 8 billion views now. Perhaps unsurprising; it's very rare to see news topics get this big on Weibo. Perhaps surprising; the nasty divorce of celebrity Wang Baoqiang in 2016 still reached more clicks (10 billion). pic.twitter.com/wnLeoHpu1F
— Manya Koetse (@manyapan) January 25, 2020
Valuable commodities:
Placing bets with masks. Pic via Internet pic.twitter.com/fm4WbLVAgw
— Keith Zhai (@QiZHAI) January 26, 2020