now in the last hour Britain has changed
its travel advice advising against all
of us essential travel to the whole of
mainland China as a result of the new
coronavirus the number of deaths has now
jumped to more than a hundred British
nationals trapped in China have been out
to register with the consulate if they
wish to be flown out with suggestions an
airlift may happen quickly and with
short notice
Japan and Germany have discovered cases
of the virus in people with no history
of travel to Wuhan the city where it
first emerged our health correspondent
Victoria McDonald reports and a warning
there is flash photography from the
start there taking no chances all Thai
Airways flights from China are being
thoroughly disinfected the novel
coronavirus has been identified now in
13 countries outside China with 45 cases
confirmed in Germany they've reported a
patient who had not been in China but
who had come into contact with the
Chinese colleague visiting from Shanghai
she had been infected by her parents who
had come from near Wuhan at the center
of the outbreak disclose act I want to
make it clear that it was expected that
the corona virus would also reach
Germany the case in Bavaria also shows
however that we are well prepared that
the information between the federal and
state governments and internationally
works well this is the first case of
human-to-human transmission of the virus
in Europe other cases where the patient
has not been in China have been reported
in Japan Taiwan and possibly Vietnam a
growing number of countries are now
taking their citizens out of Wuhan and
the Hubei Province much of which was in
lockdown the UK government has asked any
Britons who want to leave to contact the
consulate because they just still get
the list together of people that want to
go I wouldn't expect that it would be
tomorrow maybe on earliest on the 30th
or the 31st of January there are a
number of people who have the problem
that they have a Chinese spouse and
Chinese children and
they're not really allowed that well
they're not allowed to travel with their
partner the latest official figures are
106 deaths and more than 4500 cases
confirmed the Army has been called into
Wuhan to help and today the World Health
Organization said the increasing numbers
were deeply concerning the staff are
overwhelmed
this video from who Bey daily media
group shows a doctor breaking down in
tears hundreds more doctors are being
sent to the region and to new hospitals
are being built in record-breaking time
my wife is a medical worker and I am a
builder of the Latian Channel Hospital
our goal right now is to build this
hospital better so that all medical
staff like my wife can work worryfree
and feel more secure and they are
desperately needed Chinese authorities
said today that at this time of year the
Wuhan fever clinics would normally see
3,000 patients a day at their busiest
times over the past few days they have
dealt with more than 15,000 much is
still unknown about this new virus most
patients have been mildly affected
making it harder to detect but 20
percent have been severe