There has been a new outbreak of the coronavirus in China. It started out as a small disease that seemed to have no signs of human-to-human transmission. However, the disease started to rapidly spread at the start of early Janurary of this year. After the outbreak started to get worse, the World Health Organization (WHO), worked with Chinese and health officials to look further in the disease, and realized that the disease is spreading from human to human.Recently, China decided to do whatever they can to stop the transmission of the disease, and ordered a lockdon on Wuhan, a major city of China with the disease.
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Number of people who died due to the coronavirus | 563 people |
Number of people who died due to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) | 361 |
Here is a picture of the lockdown of Wuhan so you can see the severity of the situation.