China Quarantines 11 Million People

A Chinese news bulletin has indicated that the city of Wuhan is now under a quarantine in response to the rapid spread of a deadly SARS-like virus called 2019-nCoV.

Wuhan authorities just quarantined the entire city. No one permitted to leave without a “special reason”. #coronavirus - @gabewildau  January 22, 2020

The infectious respiratory illness is a new strain of coronavirus that is causing a type of pneumonia. The illness is said to have originated in a seafood market in Wuhan and quickly spread to other areas of China, then Japan, Thailand, South Korea, and the United States.