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| | :*A a doctor in Wuhan posts video saying, "I ’m still in the epidemic area of Hankou, Wuhan, and I ’d like to report to you the current epidemic situation in Hubei and even the whole country. There are now more than 90,000 incidents of infection....After a person is infected, if he is not effectively isolated, or if effective treatment is [not] performed, he will infect 14 people around him..."<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfdWmjPt2ow</ref><ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/wuhan-nurse-fears-90000-infected-emotional-plea-help</ref> | | :*A a doctor in Wuhan posts video saying, "I ’m still in the epidemic area of Hankou, Wuhan, and I ’d like to report to you the current epidemic situation in Hubei and even the whole country. There are now more than 90,000 incidents of infection....After a person is infected, if he is not effectively isolated, or if effective treatment is [not] performed, he will infect 14 people around him..."<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfdWmjPt2ow</ref><ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/wuhan-nurse-fears-90000-infected-emotional-plea-help</ref> |
| | :*Chinese Communist Party extends lockdown to cover 36 million people and begins building quarantine camps in Wuhan. | | :*Chinese Communist Party extends lockdown to cover 36 million people and begins building quarantine camps in Wuhan. |
| − | :*24-30 January - China celebrates the Lunar New Year holiday. Hundreds of millions of people are in transit around the country as they visit relatives. Approximately 5 million people have left Wuhan without being screened for the Chinese coronavirus.
| + | *24-30 January - China celebrates the Lunar New Year holiday. Hundreds of millions of people are in transit around the country as they visit relatives. Approximately 5 million people have left Wuhan without being screened for the Chinese coronavirus. |
| | *26 January - ''[[The Guardian]]'' reports ''Coronavirus: 100,000 may already be infected, experts warn;'' Prof. Neil Ferguson is quoted sasying, “My best guess now is perhaps 100,000 cases right now. Almost certainly many tens of thousands of people are infected.”<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jan/26/coronavirus-could-infect-100000-globally-experts-warn</ref> | | *26 January - ''[[The Guardian]]'' reports ''Coronavirus: 100,000 may already be infected, experts warn;'' Prof. Neil Ferguson is quoted sasying, “My best guess now is perhaps 100,000 cases right now. Almost certainly many tens of thousands of people are infected.”<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jan/26/coronavirus-could-infect-100000-globally-experts-warn</ref> |
| | *27 January - Yahoo Finance quotes Chris Meekins, "If China’s been reporting about 800 [infections] with 25 deaths, we think the number is probably 10 times that number."<ref>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinas-coronavirus-victims-likely-10-times-higher-than-reported-analyst-says-155836267.html</ref> | | *27 January - Yahoo Finance quotes Chris Meekins, "If China’s been reporting about 800 [infections] with 25 deaths, we think the number is probably 10 times that number."<ref>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinas-coronavirus-victims-likely-10-times-higher-than-reported-analyst-says-155836267.html</ref> |