A total of 774 died in the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak between 2002 and 2003 - another coronavirus that jumped from animals to humans in China. It comes after a video showing a man suspected of having coronavirus desperately sprinting away from officials trying to put him in quarantine has emerged. Wuhan officials are now carrying out door-to-door health checks to identify potential carriers who would need to be isolated. Ms Sun demanded four types of people in Wuhan be put into mandatory isolation in quarantine stations: confirmed cases, suspected cases, people who have close contact with the former two, and those who have fever. While on Friday night a medical professor said the number of coronavirus cases around the world could be 10 times higher than currently thought.

Source: Daily Mail February 08, 2020 23:27 UTC