Coronavirus Epidemic Turns Chinese City of Wuhan Upside Down in Rare Pictures

Even the train stations are deserted in otherwise ever busy stations

Aerial view shows no different situation in residential and commercial buildings

They are hard to get sort of pictures which reveal the degree of tension but also the massive nature of response of the Chinese State to the medical emergency.

According to the intro to the parade of pictures by the magazine, (newsletters@theatlantic.com), the authorities is constructing two hospitals in a matter of days, to accommodate more than 2,000 coronavirus patients that broke out in the Chinese city of Wuhan, in Hubei province. The city is under quarantine, with 82 generally said to have died in China alone besides another 2,900 confirmed cases.

Even to exercise, these women had to wear protective masks

Here, a policeman takes the temperature of a driver at a checkpoint on a street

But it is not a Chinese but global problem because, with the volume of air travel alone, the epidemic can overrun the world in a matter of days if there’s no coordinated global health governance response beyond individual nation states. Instructively, WHO boss is already in China. Though humbled by little resources and the emergence of richer and powerful individuals in global health governance, it is still the coordinator of that domain.