When the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission stated that 27 cases of a new type of coronavirus had been confirmed on December 31, no one took it seriously.
As several of the patients had passed away, and two new cases of whom had never been Wuhan were diagnosed in Guangzhou later, experts began felling obliged to investigate.
They soon discovered that this new type of virus which stemmed largely from a seafood wholesale market in Wuhan, can be easily transmitted from human to human through the air.
The World Health Organization named it 2019-nCoV.
In order to prevent the spread of the virus, the Wuhan municipal government has given an order that all of the citizens are not allowed to leave the city or even drive their own vehicles out on the streets during this special period.
Even so, there are still 30 provinces in China and more than 10 countries abroad have been reported appearing such cases, while the pneumonia has claimed 106 victims by now.
This disease usually starts both with low fever and dry cough, and there’s no specific medicine to cure it yet.
All the masks that are used to protect ourselves from infection have been nearly sold out.
Most of the Chinese families have been confined to their houses during the Chinese New Year holidays, as all the unnecessary gatherings had been called off.
What is more, the Chinese citizens were informed by the government on Monday that the holidays of Spring Festival will continue until next Monday, for the terrible situation still lasts.
This is the longest and worst Spring Festival we have ever experienced.
During which, doctors and nurses from various parts of the country have volunteered to come towards Wuhan to fight with this pneumonia disaster, which is a moving spectacle consists of all these brave warriors who against the virus.