Chinese paramilitary police stand guard outside the closed Hankou Railway Station. A second city in Hubei province – Huanggang – is being shut down to help control the spread of the deadly coronavirus now raging across China, authorities said. The number of Chinese infected with the Wuhan coronavirus has risen to 631 nationwide, the People's Daily reported. The railway station in a third nearby city, Ezhou, which has a population of over one million, will also close from tonight, though no other measures were announced. The authorities had shut down all transport links to Wuhan city where the newly identified virus originated.

Source: The Standard January 23, 2020 10:31 UTC