Wuhan Coronavirus News Updates -- January 28, 2020

Daily Mail: White House tells airlines it may suspend all China-US flights as Coronavirus cases surge past 5,500 worldwide including EIGHT in North America and 20 American airports are now screening for the infection

* British Columbia's Health Ministry has confirmed the province's first coronavirus patient, bringing Canada's case count to three
* The US Department of Health and Human Services and CDC say 20 airports across the country will screen for the deadly coronavirus that originated in China
* Five US cases have been confirmed in Maricopa County, Arizona; Orange County and Los Angeles County, California; Chicago, Illinois and Snohomish County, Washington
* Officials say the risk to the general public is low but that it may be able to spread from human to human before symptoms appear
* Several drugs are being tried to treat people with coronavirus but there is no evidence of their efficacy
* The National Institutes of Health is working on a vaccine, but warn it will be months before one will be tested on humans
* HHS Secretary Alex Azar said the US has offered to send medical experts to China three times, but the government has declined
* On Tuesday, the WHO said China was finally allowing international experts to visit 'as soon as possible'
* More than 5,500 people have been sickened by coronavirus in at least 18 countries and territories and 131 people, all in China, have died

The U.S. could suspend flights from China to the States amid the coronavirus outbreak, sources have said.

CNBC reported that the White House has told airline executives that it’s considering suspending flights.

Government officials reportedly made phone calls to executives at major U.S. carriers Tuesday and said a temporary ban is possible.

It comes as United Airlines, which has around a dozen daily flights, on Tuesday said it would cancel more flights to China and Hong Kong as the outbreak worsens.

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Wuhan Coronavirus News Updates -- January 28, 2020

Deaths rise to 132 in China outbreak as foreigners leave -- AP
China virus toll passes 130 as U.S. weighs flight ban -- Reuters
Number Of Coronavirus Cases Surpasses SARS As China Holds 60k Under 'Observation' -- Zero Hedge
China vows to beat 'devil' coronavirus as death toll increases, nations scramble to evacuate their citizens -- ABC News Online
Coronavirus outbreak: Chartered jet flies Americans from China to US, report says -- FOX News
Malaysia says three new cases of virus infection, total at 7 -- Reuters
Japan plane evacuating citizens arrives Tokyo from virus-hit Wuhan -- Reuters
Australia to help some citizens leave China, quarantine them on Christmas Island -- Reuters
Coronavirus: British nationals to be evacuated from infected Chinese province this week -- Yahoo News
Tears, fear and panic grip China as coronavirus spreads -- L.A. Times
White House holds off on suspending China-U.S. flights amid virus outbreak -- Reuters
What It’s Like to Try to Get Treatment for the Coronavirus in China -- Jiayang Fan, New Yorker
Here’s the latest on the novel coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan -- Ars Technica