Current events blog #1

Today I read the article called “tests confirm source of coronavirus  outbreak in China”. I learned that there is a deadly virus called the coronavirus. This virus has killed 81 people, and infected more than 2,700 people. This virus has started in Wuhan China. Scientists believe people got this sickness from animals to start off inside the seafood wholesale market. The Wet market sells live animals, and is believed to be the source of the outbreak. China’s busy travel season was pushed back from Thursday to Sunday to reduce the crowd and gatherings and to prevent more people from catching this sickness. Schools have been closed. The spread of the sickness has now become stronger, causing more people to get sick. The Lunar new year was extended by a week to February 9th. The youngest person to get this sickness is 9 months old in Beijing. There has been more hospitals made to treat more patients at a time.

Overall I think this article helped me learn more about what’s going on in different places like China. The article shows how China cares for the people, and is doing their best to prevent this sickness from spreading more and getting worse. This was very interesting to hear, because I have heard certain stories about the sickness in China but I never got to read the specific details, so now I’m glad I did. This article is good to spread awareness, and is good so people can prevent getting this sickness, for example is someone has a trip booked to China they can cancel it until the sickness has been cleared.