It’s the largest quarantine in human history, but will it stop the disease? The cities have been sealed off; transportation in and out of them has stopped. Schools are closed, and traditional celebrations for the Lunar New Year have been suspended. Yet as of Monday, at least 80 people had died, more than 2,740 were confirmed to have been infected and cases had been detected in at least 10 other countries. Zhong Nanshan, of China’s National Health Commission, is reported to have said that the most effective way to stop the virus, which appears to be spread by droplets, was a quarantine.

Source: New York Times January 27, 2020 06:00 UTC