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Wuhan is QUARANTINED: Ground zero for deadly coronavirus halts all travel in AND out of the city after the CDC begins screening at five US airports as the disease MUTATES after killing 17 and infecting up to 10,000
No one will be allowed to enter or leave Wuhan beginning 10am Thursday
Quarantine was announced Wednesday as Chinese officials warned that the deadly new virus is mutating and becoming increasingly difficult to control
CDC officials in the US have launched a plan to 'funnel' air passengers from Wuhan through five major airports to try to halt the spread
Screening checkpoints for coronavirus are in place at Los Angeles International Airport, New York's JFK airport and San Francisco International Airport
Additional checkpoints are being set up at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago and Hartsfield-Jackson airport in Atlanta
The new strain of coronavirus has killed 17 and sickened at least 532 worldwide
The SARS-like disease was first reported in China late last month before spreading to Taiwan, Thailand, South Korea, Japan and the United States
The first US case was diagnosed in Washington state on Tuesday
The virus is thought to have spread to humans from a seafood market 'which illegally traded wild animals' in Wuhan
Experts say its possible up to 10,000 people in China alone have been exposed
World Health Organization officials met Wednesday to decide whether to declare the outbreak a 'public health emergency of international concern'
Members' opinions were 'split' and the committee will reconvene Thursday
The Chinese city of Wuhan has been placed under quarantine in an effort to stop the spread of the killer coronavirus believed to have originated there.

No one will be allowed to enter or leave Wuhan, a city of 11 million in China's Hubei province, beginning 10am Thursday, just ahead of Saturday's Lunar New Year, which marks one of the country's busiest travel seasons.

The quarantine was announced through state-run media Wednesday as Chinese officials warned that the deadly new virus is mutating and becoming increasingly difficult to control.

Following confirmation of the first American case - a Washington state man in his 30s - on Tuesday, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began to 'funnel' all inbound passengers from Wuhan to five major US airports equipped to screen for the virus.

The coronavirus, a SARS-like disease, has killed 17 and sickened at least 532 people worldwide - including in Thailand, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and the US - since the first cases were reported in Wuhan in late December.

International concern has grown with the revelation that the virus spreads not just from animals to people, but between people. Its spread seems to be picking up speed, with some estimating up to 10,000 in China are already infected.

Despite branding Wuhan's measure to contain the outbreak 'strong', World Health Organization (WHO) officials on Wednesday declined to call the new coronavirus an international emergency, instead delaying global recommendations until they reconvene Thursday.
American officials set up screening checkpoints at Los Angeles International Airport, New York's John F Kennedy airport and San Francisco International Airport last week.

New checkpoints are being installed at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago and Hartsfield-Jackson airport in Atlanta by the end of this week.

WHO officials met Wednesday to decide whether to declare the outbreak a 'public health emergency of international concern', but members' opinions were 'split' and the committee will continue deliberations on Thursday.

Experts say its possible up to 10,000 people in China alone have been exposed to the virus, which is from the same family that caused previous outbreaks of SARS and MERS, killing hundreds of people in dozens of countries.

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