Visitors wearing masks outside the Shanghai Disney Resort, which will be closed during the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday. China closed Shanghai Disneyland and part of the Great Wall and suspended public transportation in 10 cities as it rushed to contain the virus, stranding millions of people at the start of the country's Lunar New Year holiday. Wuhan, a city of 11 million where the virus was first identified, is in virtual lockdown. Senator John Barrasso, a former physician, said people in the United States with the virus may have been infected up to 14 days ago in China. 'Sense of urgency'Most cases have been in Wuhan, where the virus is believed to have originated in a market that traded illegally in wildlife.

Source: Otago Daily Times January 24, 2020 20:48 UTC