As authorities and health workers try to halt the spread of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak in China, travel restrictions and quarantine measures have left many streets, parks, and shopping centers essentially deserted in cities across China. More than 20,500 cases have been reported so far in mainland China, and the World Health Organization recently declared a global public health emergency. Quickly-built hospitals are starting to take in patients in Wuhan, and other public buildings are being converted into temporary hospitals with thousands of beds set up for people with mild symptoms. Below, recent scenes from Wuhan, Shanghai, Beijing, and other virus-affected areas.
Photos: Empty Streets in China Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
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A mother reacts as she pleads with checkpoint police to allow her daughter to pass for cancer treatment after she arrived from Hubei province on the Jiujiang Yangtze River Bridge on February 1, 2020. #
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Workers set up beds in an exhibition center that was converted into a hospital in Wuhan on February 4, 2020. The Wuhan government said it plans to convert three existing venues, including a gymnasium and an exhibition center, into hospitals to take in patients with mild symptoms of the new coronavirus. #
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A view of the empty Lo Wu Mass Transit Railway station, where the government announced that a border checkpoint would be shut down, photographed on February 3, 2020, in Hong Kong, China. #
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This photo taken on January 31, 2020, shows 26-year-old Wuhan native Lucy Huang, a documentary maker living in Beijing, putting on a protective face mask in her house in Beijing. Communities in China are offering cash rewards, knocking on doors, and questioning people trying to enter their neighborhoods—but they're not looking for criminals. They're looking for anyone coming from Wuhan, the central city at the epicenter of a deadly virus epidemic. #
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