just few weeks since the virus first broke out in ohan but now the number of

people who have corona virus in China has outnumbered those who had SARS our

title mune has the latest the new type of corona virus that first appeared in

the Chinese city of Han late last month continues to claim more victims as of

Thursday the death toll in China tops 117 and the

total number of confirmed cases comes to around 8,000 with an infection rate much

faster than the SARS outbreak in 2003 which had around 5,300 confirmed cases

as the virus continues to spread China's President Xi said the preventing and

containing it remains a grim and complex task China's state-run media CCTV

reported on Wednesday that she has sent a military medical team to the front

line to prevent the epidemic from spreading emphasizing the role of the

military she requested army hospitals to cure patients and science institutes to

actively tackle the virus in order to prevent the virus from spreading the

city of ohan has increased its Lunar New Year holiday to two weeks the holiday

was originally supposed to end on January 30th but will now end on

February 13th companies in the region will delay their reopening the China CDC

said the extension will reduce human to human contact which is a critical way of

tackling respiratory infections China's central government has already extended

the holiday for days and other provinces are also delaying the reopening of

businesses and schools the International Ski Federation has also called off Ski

World Cup races that were due to take place near Beijing in order to protect

the health of the participants cha dong-young

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