The latest development raises the possibility that the virus could spread more quickly and widely.
BEIJING – The head of a Chinese government team said Monday that human-to-human transmission was confirmed in an outbreak of a new coronavirus, a development that raises the possibility that it could spread more quickly and widely.
“The recent outbreak of novel coronavirus pneumonia in Wuhan and other places must be taken seriously,” President Xi Jinping said in his first public statement on the crisis. “Party committees, governments and relevant departments at all levels should put people’s lives and health first.”The spread of the viral pneumonia comes as the country enters its busiest travel period, when millions board trains and planes for the Lunar New Year holidays.
South Korea reported its first case Monday, when a 35-year-old Chinese woman from Wuhan tested positive for the coronavirus one day after arriving at Seoul’s Incheon airport. The woman was isolated at a state-run hospital in Incheon city, west of Seoul, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement.
Many of the initial cases of the coronavirus were linked to a seafood market in Wuhan, which was closed as authorities investigated.
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