Corona Virus: China suspends tourist flights inside and outside the country

On Saturday, the Chinese authorities suspended tourist flights inside and outside the country, in light of the outbreak of the Corona virus, which killed at least 41 people in this country, according to Chinese TV. President Xi Jinping said that the spread of Coruna is accelerating and that the situation is “dangerous”, while the army has taken extraordinary measures and isolated entire affected areas.

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The Chinese government decided to suspend organized tourist flights inside and outside the country, after the outbreak of the Corona virus, which resulted in the death of 41 people in the country, and the registration of cases on several continents as announced by Chinese TV Saturday.

As of Monday, Chinese travel agencies will not be able to sell hotel reservations and organized trips, according to public television.

For his part, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Saturday that the spread of the epidemic is accelerating, and that the situation is “dangerous”, but he returned and stressed during a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party (consisting of seven members and runs the country) that his country can “win the battle” against the Corona virus. The novelty, according to the official Xinhua news agency.

The Chinese army deployed its doctors in the virus zone and urgently built a second hospital to reduce the spread of the mysterious disease that reached Europe and Australia.

This, and China intensified its initiatives by preventing traffic at the center of the virus and declaring a state of extreme alert in Hong Kong and taking systematic measures in transportation in the north and south of the country, to try to prevent the spread of the virus that has now reached four continents.

The cases recorded in Asia Pacific, Europe and the United States in recent days, are from people who came from China where the virus broke out in December.

Isolating 56 million people !!

On Saturday, police at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Wuhan return cars trying to leave the city, which has been hit by the emerging Corona virus, at a time when its residents are stuck in Chinese New Year while storing masks and medical equipment.

After being criticized in 2003 for managing the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) crisis, China this time took drastic measures to tackle the new Coronavirus, which has killed 41 people and infected 1,300.

And the health authorities imposed a cordon on the city of Wuhan and 17 other towns in the central province of Khubei, to isolate the province’s 56 million residents.

The size of the area in question makes it impossible to verify the effectiveness of this procedure.

On Saturday morning, the few cars that reached a police checkpoint about 20 km east of the provincial capital were forced to return.