LATEST: Three Chinese cities on lockdown to curb the spread of the deadly coronavirus that has claimed 17 lives.
As of Thursday morning, roads, trains and flights into and out of the city, home to 11 million people, have been locked down.
People walk past the closed Hankou Railway Station in Wuhan on Thursday after the city was locked down following the outbreak of a new coronavirus.Authorities in Hong Kong stopped selling tickets for trains between the semi-autonomous territory and Wuhan Thursday, as two cases of the new coronavirus were confirmed there.
“I support the lockdown of Wuhan," former hotel manager Yi Yi, 55, said while on a walk in Beijing."It shows China has the ability and experience to control this outbreak."Chinese government officials were criticized for their handling of the SARS epidemic that claimed the lives of nearly 800 people in 2002-2003, accused of downplaying the full extent of the outbreak, but have so far provided regular updates on the spread of the new coronavirus this week.
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