The new strain of Coronavirus has claimed the lives of 80 people and injured more than 2000 persons across China, especially Wupie province in the central-eastern part.
Xinhua, a Chinese news agency said on Monday, that the National Committee for Development and Reform ( NCDR) has decided to allocate ¥ 60.33 billion ( $8.74 billion) to help contain the deadly virus.
The Chinese authorities budgeted ¥ 300 million ( about $ 43.5 million) to build new hospitals in Wuhan, the epicenter of the new wave of the disease.
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More major Chinese companies shut down and asked their employees to stay home.
A new hospital will be completed by February 3 to treat people who contracted the disease.
It takes ten days to be built and furnished.
The new medical center encompasses 25 thousand square meters and houses 1000 beds.
It participates in alleviating the destructive effect of the crisis of reduced medical resources and improving capacity of caring for the patients.
The Chinese Authorities restrict movement of millions of people to prevent the spreading of the virus
The unprecedented step aims at stopping the deadly disease from spreading to other areas outside the previous-hit districts.
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Thousands of the Chinese people are exposed to the virus which resembles the one which claimed the lives of 800 persons in the first decade of the 21st century.
The virus becomes a nightmare to both the government and the population in China.
It hit 25 new areas within less than 24 hours.
Police and units of the Speed Intervention Units closed train station in Wuhan, in the middle east of China.
Travelers who hold tickets only were permitted to the station and board the up trains.
Later, the authorities sealed the entrance of Wuhan station with metal bars and enforced passengers to return home.
Some of those passengers said they have no shelter in the city so they stayed in the open air.
Long lines of the Chinese stood outside drug stores to buy masks. The health authorities decided one packet of masks to a person to cope with pressing demand.
Medical staffs wore preventive kit outside hospitals where they are treating patients with viral pneumonia.
Local authorities in the inner parts of China urge the people in the public areas to wear masks to protect their noses.
Also, government employees should put on masks. Shopkeepers were informed to hang notices to ask customers to wear masks.
Also, the Chinese government postponed opening schools and universities across the country.
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