China deploys army medics to virus epicentre Wuhan
(WorldNews Pakistan)

WUHAN: The Chinese army deployed medical specialists Saturday to the epicentre of a spiralling viral outbreak that has already killed 41 people and spread around the world, as millions spent their normally festive Lunar New Year holiday under lockdown. The country`s most important celebration has been all-but cancelled for people in a dozen cities who have been ordered to hunker down. On Saturday, when they should have been celebrating, citizens of Wuhan stood in line at a pharmacy to buy masks from employees in full-body protective suits and surgical gloves. China has launched a massive quarantine effort across much of Hubei province, affecting more than 40 million people. On the eastern...