{"id":15608,"date":"2020-01-23T13:25:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T13:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.travelcenter.uk\/?p=15608"},"modified":"2020-07-03T06:48:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T05:48:22","slug":"wuhan-is-seized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wuhan-is-seized\/","title":{"rendered":"Wuhan is seized: Coronavirus cripples the Chinese health and safety standards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"color:#000000\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">The recent outbreak in China\u2019s Wuhan\ncoronavirus infection rises to 572 and the death of 17 people as the local\nauthorities&nbsp;confirmed. This virus is of a respiratory virus which is\nrecognized as a&nbsp;Sars-like\nvirus that first happened during December.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#000000\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">The Wuhan city and the market has been\nbarricaded and the masked-up government officials are investigating the\ncircumstance. The virus has been transmitting from animals to humans due to\npoor conditions in the Seafood Market&nbsp;of the&nbsp;city where they had sold\nwild animals, raccoon dogs, snakes, and skinned birds. The scientists say the\nvirus is constantly rising and it is becoming stronger by spreading among\nhumans to humans.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#000000\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">Professor Leo Poon&nbsp;from Hong\nKong&nbsp;is&nbsp;one of&nbsp;the first&nbsp;virologists&nbsp;to identify the\nvirus. According to his statement, he believes, the virus transmitted from\nanimals to humans. The virus is causing pneumonia, and it doesn\u2019t respond to\nany antibiotic medications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#000000\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">The international attention called among the\nWorld Health Organization for an emergency meeting to discuss\nfurther&nbsp;regarding&nbsp;how to prevent the spread of the virus. They had\nrecalled another meeting by procrastinating for an expert&nbsp;committee, and&nbsp;are\nstill deciding to declare if it is a global health emergency.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#000000\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">According to Xinhua, the tourism and culture\ndepartment of Wuhan postponed all public gatherings and group tours. The tourist\nattractions and star-rated hotels are not hosting any large events until\nFebruary 8<sup>th<\/sup> to guard the health and safety of their citizens.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#000000\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">The Wuhan city\u2019s&nbsp;Guiyuan&nbsp;Temple\nwhich attracted 700,000 people last year for the Lunar New year has also been\nheld without any plans this year. Millions of Chinese citizens were preparing\nto travel for the Lunar New Year\u2013 discouraged them to take part in traveling\nacross the country and the world.&nbsp;The&nbsp;Local transportation systems of\nstations and airports shut due to the deadly virus.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#000000\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">The extremely serious condition is also reported outside China by creating fear among other continents.&nbsp; The United States, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.travelcenter.uk\/how-and-why-japan-became-the-fastest-growing-travel-destination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Japan (opens in a new tab)\"><strong><span style=\"color:#0693e3\" class=\"tadv-color\">Japan<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, Thailand, Taiwan, and South Korea have found infections of the virus that they had confirmed its&nbsp;Sars&nbsp;coronavirus. Most of the airports are screening passengers for viruses to prevent any unnecessary difficulties.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#000000\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">The Wuhan city gates are closed and China\u2019s&nbsp;essential&nbsp;travel and tourism are&nbsp;endangered&nbsp;due to the deadly virus, and it has been affecting the Chinese economy since the past few days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent outbreak in China\u2019s Wuhan coronavirus infection rises to 572 and the death of 17 people as the local authorities&nbsp;confirmed. This virus is of a respiratory virus which is recognized as a&nbsp;Sars-like virus that first happened during December.&nbsp; The Wuhan city and the market has been barricaded and the masked-up government officials are investigating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":355,"featured_media":15609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[612],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15608"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20069,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15608\/revisions\/20069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}