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   city      country       medical  supervision      major      outbreak     

public      season       spread      globe   deadly     

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Nations around the ______________are preparing for a possible______________

outbreak of a new ______________virus. The coronavirus, which started in the
Chinese ______________of Wuhan, has already killed numerous people. It has spread
to the USA, Japan, Korea and Thailand, among other countries. By now, millions of
people have caught the virus and are under ______________. The World Health
Organization (WHO) was meeting in early February to decide whether
the ______________was a global health emergency. Early on, China was also urging
people not to panic ahead of the Chinese New Year the following week. Millions of
Chinese were soon to be travelling across the ______________to spend the
holiday ______________with their families. Meanwhile, the city of Wuhan had
suspended its ______________transport systems to help stop the ______________of the
virus.

   breathing      contagious      remedy      strain      fears      further      human     

illegally      novel     symptoms  

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The ______________coronavirus is suspected to have come from ______________traded

animals in a Wuhan market. The virus mutated and spread from an animal to
a ______________. There are ______________it could mutate and spread ______________.
Scientists say the virus is ______________and can be passed from person to person
through the air. Dr Linfa Wang, a virologist at the Duke-National University of
Singapore, said the new coronavirus is in the same ______________as SARS, but it's
different from SARS. He said people needed to look for pneumonia-
like ______________, such as fever, cough and difficulty ______________. Fu Ning, a 36-
year-old woman from Beijing, said: "I feel fearful because there's no ______________
for the virus."
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