Chinese authorities are taking dramatic new measures to cut off the spread of the Wuhan virus, including a travel ban beginning on Thursday morning that will effectively quarantine its place of origin, a city of 11 million people.

An aerial view shows the Lady MacLehose Holiday Village, which is being used as one of two quarantine centres for people who may have been in close proximity with carriers of the Wuhan virus, in Hong Kong.
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