Second City in China, Huanggang, is being put on lockdown

According to AFP news, Huanggang, population 7.4 Million is being put on lockdown. Train station will be locked down, bars and theatres will be closed as well all cars to be checked.

Further, the city of Ezhou, population 1 Million will also have its train stations closed.

So, if you're scoring at home, thats almost 20 Million people being put on lockdown. More than LA and NYC combined.

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Link from Reuters:

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BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Thursday locked down two cities at the epicenter of a coronavirus outbreak that has killed 17 people and infected nearly 600, as health authorities around the world took action to prevent a global pandemic.

Health officials fear the transmission rate will accelerate as hundreds of millions of Chinese travel at home and abroad during week-long holidays for the Lunar New Year, which begins on Saturday.

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Fun Conspiracy tidbit: Apparently there is a cdc like bio-lab in Wuhan. Might the Chinese have been developing bio-weapons? The plot thickens!!

ETA: last summer, a couple Chinese spies were escorted out of Canada's only level 4 bio lab:

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A researcher with ties to China was recently escorted out of the National Microbiology Lab (NML) in Winnipeg amid an RCMP investigation into what's being described as a possible "policy breach."

Dr. Xiangguo Qiu, her husband Keding Cheng and an unknown number of her students from China were removed from Canada's only level-4 lab on July 5, CBC News has learned.

A Level 4 virology facility is a lab equipped to work with the most serious and deadly human and animal diseases. That makes the Arlington Street lab one of only a handful in North America capable of handling pathogens requiring the highest level of containment, such as Ebola.

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And, finally, a bit about that lab in Wuhan:

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As the central Chinese city of Wuhan grapples with a previously unknown strain of virus and is on the verge of getting physically sealed from the outside world, ironically, the top laboratory in China equipped to find a cure for it lies right in the middle of the city’s 11 million population.

Neither national health commission (NHC) vice-minister, Li Bin, nor Gao Fu, director of the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said anything about it at Wednesday’s briefing in Beijing, though they talked a lot about the unknown origins of the novel Coronavirus: It’s dangerous, of mutating nature, a Class B virus, getting Class A prevention and control treatment.

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