Bundesregierung erwägt Rückholaktion für Deutsche aus China

France and the USA have already launched return campaigns. British researcher estimates that up to 100,000 people are infected.
Starting from the city of Wuhan, the corona virus is now spreading worldwide.

The number of deaths from the new lung disease in China rose by 24 to 80 by Monday. China officially speaks of almost 3000 infected people. But this number is very controversial.
Neil Ferguson, a public health expert at Imperial College London, told the Guardian that 100,000 people could be infected.
According to "Guardian", Ferguson models for WHO how the virus spreads. An infected person could infect up to three other people, he says.
"My best estimate is that there are already 100,000 cases," Ferguson told the Guardian. But it could also be between 30,000 and 200,000. "However, tens of thousands are almost certainly infected."

The virus has now reached Europe. Three suspected cases were confirmed in France on Friday. A suspicion in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen was not confirmed on Sunday. Individual cases have also been reported from other countries, including Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Australia, the United States and Canada.

China ordered nationwide measures on Saturday: measuring stations will be set up in all public transport. Five other cities were sealed off - there are now a total of 18 cities with a total of 56 million inhabitants. However, China's disease control center says Sars was more dangerous.

The Federal Foreign Office plans to fly Germans out of China
Due to the spread of the new corona virus, the German government is considering fleeing Germans from China who are willing to leave the country. A possible evacuation will be considered, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) said in Berlin on Monday.
According to this, the Federal Foreign Office assumes a double-digit number of Germans in the region that is particularly affected. The crisis team met on Monday morning to discuss how to proceed. Other countries like
France and the United States have already launched such return campaigns.

Germany is well prepared ”
Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn (CDU) sees Germany well-armed in the event that the new corona virus occurs in Germany. "Basically we are vigilant, we take things very seriously, but we are also well prepared," said Spahn on Monday in Berlin. Pandemic and handling plans clarified what to do in the event of an incident at the airports and at the clinics.

Regarding the "classification", Spahn emphasized that the course of the disease with the coronavirus is milder than, for example, with the flu. "Up to 20,000 people die of the flu in Germany if it is severe." When asked whether it would be possible to isolate entire cities in Germany and China, Spahn cited the example of measles, which is clear are more contagious than the corona virus. “And we are also getting a measles outbreak in Germany under control with significantly milder measures than we currently see in China