now let's enter China because the corona
virus death toll there is now above 80
we know thousands of others are infected
let me show you some of the pictures
that have come in in the last few hours
so this is a hospital in Wuhan it's
under extreme pressure because of
dwindling supplies and rising patient
numbers you can see the conditions in
which staff are having to work it's a
very different scene outside this is the
centre of Wuhan it's a city that's home
to 11 million people not that you would
know it many of the streets are deserted
people are being told they can't leave
the city they're being advised to stay
indoors meanwhile everyone else in China
is being told stay away from Wuhan makes
this is Beijing you'll see a number of
people we're not from that shop there
lots of people wearing face masks this
is much quieter than the public
transport would normally be because
people are simply reluctant to go out
and this is really interesting a factory
in Fujian province in eastern China it's
desperately trying to meet the spiraling
demand for face masks across China well
on top of that we know half a million
medical staff have been deployed to one
province Hubei Province in Wuhan where
the outbreak began also the new year
holiday has been extended that's to try
and reduce the number of people
travelling all over China in the next
few days put a graphic here to show you
how much the virus is spreading the
darker the red the more cases there are
so here is who Bay
province 1,400 cases there and you can
see other places nearby Oh in dark red
as well most of the fatalities in Wuhan
have been elderly people all those with
pre-existing respiratory problems then
this is a graphic from the World Health
Organization showing us how it's spread
outside of China 44 cases from countries
from as far afield as France Australia
Canada the US Singapore Cambodia Vietnam
the list goes on almost every one of
those cases is someone who had recently
been to Wuhan and there have been no
fatalities outside China
I should add well there's been a lot of
focus on the mayor of Wuhan and how he's
handled this crisis here he is on
Chinese state TV facing a sudden virus
outbreak our continuous work wasn't
performed well enough I feel that our
capability of dealing with a crisis
needs to be improved well for more on
how the mayor's handling this epidemic
his Celia Hammond he has offered to
resign if it's found that he just didn't
his efforts weren't good enough he also
admitted that they could have done more
to to slow down the spread of the virus
faster but he's also kind of at the same
time blamed Beijing blamed the
authorities right at the central
government because he said look we
wanted to to spread the news faster but
we had to get Beijing's permission first
before we could report that there was an
outbreak well hospitals and Wuhan are
under severe pressure as I was saying
one solution to this is simply to be to
build a new hospital this is a picture
of China's premier visiting a
construction site of a new 1,000 bed
hospital in Wuhan and the Chinese are in
a rush with this you can see the number
of diggers involved we're told engineers
have been brought in from across China
to help the plan is to build this in
days outside of Wuhan while in Beijing
the authorities have now closed the
Forbidden City to tourists they've also
closed a section of the Great Wall of
China and many locals are either
choosing not to go out at all or
reducing going out to as low as possible
here's one resident in Beijing we were
very scared today if it was not for my
wife who had to come to the hospital for
a prenatal exam we would not come out
and that's it from Carrie Alan she's a
China media analyst from BBC monitoring
she's off and on outside sauce here she
is speaking about some of those affected
we're seeing that at least 30 provinces
have implemented what's known as a level
one kind of emergency so to speak and so
a lot of schools for example across the
country there now delaying opening their
classes I mean I was speaking to friends
this morning who were teachers in
Shanghai and they've been told by the
local government that there they
shouldn't go out and if they do go out
to wear a mask they've been told that
term times are now suspended for three
weeks and companies have to wait two
weeks so a lot of people are very much
on hold they don't know whether they're
going to work or to score yeah they're
frightened to go out oh this is
happening the World Health Organization
has come out and apologized for Miss
categorizing the global risk posed by
this virus last week it said the risk
was moderate now it says it should have
said
it was high and for more on how the
w-h-o is coordinating with the Chinese
authorities here Jolyon funk from BBC
Chinese in Washington we speak to some
public health experts who say actually
the Chinese government has done a better
job in communicating with the
international community regarding the
outbreak Bustillo
many online netizens from China
criticized the Chinese government for
delaying information release regarding
the case cons and regarding how
contagious the virus could be some
people lash out at the governor of Hubei
who in a press conference yesterday had
to correct himself not only once but
twice over the number of face mass
produced in his province and many
Chinese see that as a sign of
incompetence and they're demanding for
his resignations but it's also worth
pointing out that many of those
criticism actually target the local
authorities rather than the central
government and that's probably why those
messages can still survive on Chinese
internet and to what degree are the
holidays around the new year
complicating the authorities response
yes
so the Lunar New Year started on
Saturday but it's worth pointing out
that Chinese celebrate a festival over
the course of roughly two weeks it's not
only one day and of course this is the
time when Chinese travel lots and also
many business even some governments
suspend the operation and that certainly
becomes a very complicated factor in
delaying the efforts of compacting the
virus but we can see that Beijing has
mobilized the whole country to fight
Albert right now on the new year date a
Chinese leadership had a meeting it has
two major guidelines for propaganda or
less information released the first of
all is to be as transparent as possible
to release the case counts on a timely
manner the second one is to send out a
unified
message to the whole country that we can
do this if we unify together there's no
obstacle that we can't overcome