On Friday the first cases were reported in Europe with France saying it had identified one instance in Paris and one in Bordeaux. Authorities in China were racing against the clock to build a new 1,000-bed hospital dedicated to the disease within days. The US, South Korea and Japan detected their second cases, and Singapore reported two more, for a total of three. What are the symptoms of the Wuhan coronavirus? It increases the likelihood that the World Health Organization will declare the outbreak to be a public health emergency of international concern on Thursday evening.

Source: The Guardian January 24, 2020 06:11 UTC