US President Donald Trump said Friday that China is doing a ‘very professional job’ against coronavirus.
The virus has spread to about two dozen countries since first being identified in December, prompting the World Health Organisation to declare a global emergency.
Countries around the world have been flying their citizens out of the central Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the disease.The coronavirus broke out at a seafood market in Wuhan that reportedly sold exotic animals for consumption, similar to the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. SARS, a disease that infected 8,000 people and killed 800 globally between 2002 and 2003, and also began in China, was linked to the consumption of civet cats, another exotic meat.DOWNLOAD THE PUNCH NEWS APP NOW ON
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