The disease appears to have originated from a Wuhan seafood market where wild animals, including marmots, birds, rabbits, bats and snakes, are traded illegally. Coronaviruses are known to jump from animals to humans, so it’s thought that the first people infected with the disease – a group primarily made up of stallholders from the seafood market – contracted it from contact with animals.
Who is worst affected by the virus?
The old and the sick. The current fatality rate is less than 0.5% for people under the age of 50. But it rises to 8% for people in their 70s and 15% for people over 80. Meanwhile, nearly 11% of people with diseases of the heart died when infected. As did 7% of people with diabetes and 6% of people with long-term lung problems. The average for healthy people is 0.9%.
Also, A pensioner in Wuhan has been spotted butchering a cat in broad daylight as the city is ravaged by the novel coronavirus, which is believed to have come from exotic animal meat.
Chilling footage circulating on Chinese social media shows the man skinning the dead feline outside a restaurant.
The video emerged as China today banned all trade and consumption of wild animals in the wake of the epidemic.
It is believed that the pensioner, whose identity remains unknown, was preparing the animal's meat for food. He did not wear a face mask or protective clothing in the process.
The new coronavirus, known as COVID-19, has killed 2,592 people and infected some 77,000 in China.
Globally, the epidemic has claimed at least 2,628 lives, infected more than 79,700 patients and spread to at least two dozen countries.
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