Starting at 10:00 this morning (03:00 in Euskal Herria), the Chinese city of Wuhan is under quarantine: natives cannot leave or enter the city. In a city of 11 million people, the 2019-nCoV coronavirus was first detected in December, an unknown virus that has so far killed 17 people and sickened more than 500. The same measures will apply to the city of Huanggang, which has a population of 7.5 million.

Aware that the coronavirus is transmitted from person to person, concern about the spread of the virus at high speed in China has also spread internationally. Thus, passengers have canceled all the trains, buses, boats and planes that are in contact with Wuhan, among others servicios.La disease is considered a Wuhan pneumonia. In particular, coronavirus causes fever, dry cough and breathing difficulties.

In the event of the opening of the international state of emergency

The World Health Organization (WHO) has welcomed the protective measures taken by China, noting that they are important and courageous measures to limit the spread of the virus. At present, WHO will decide whether or not to open the international state of emergency, as reported by the Community Executive. At 12:00 p.m. the debate of the experts in Geneva will begin, with the aim of taking the decision as soon as possible. The decision of the international state of emergency would increase measures and actions against the coronavirus.

The emergency situation is often decided when what has happened is “serious, sudden, exceptional and unexpected”, including with regard to public health, “with consequences that go beyond the national borders of the Hungarian State”. They can also take a decision "requiring immediate action at international level".

For ten years, the WHO has only decided on the international state of emergency five times: For H1N1 influenza in 2009, poliomyelitis in 2014 (emergency situation still active) and for Ebola, Zika virus in 2016 and Ebola influenza in July last year.