{"id":242996,"date":"2020-01-23T21:20:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T02:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=242996"},"modified":"2020-01-23T21:20:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T02:20:24","slug":"wuhan-suspends-public-transportation-outward-flights-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/01\/23\/wuhan-suspends-public-transportation-outward-flights-trains\/","title":{"rendered":"Wuhan suspends public transportation, outward flights, trains"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_242997\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-242997\" style=\"width: 2880px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2880px-Platform_of_Wuhan_Station_8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-242997 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2880px-Platform_of_Wuhan_Station_8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2880\" height=\"2160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2880px-Platform_of_Wuhan_Station_8.jpg 2880w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2880px-Platform_of_Wuhan_Station_8-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2880px-Platform_of_Wuhan_Station_8-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2880px-Platform_of_Wuhan_Station_8-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2880px) 100vw, 2880px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-242997\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Wuhan Railway Station, completed in 2009 (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=63209829\">Photo By \u305d\u3089\u307f\u307f\/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>WUHAN<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Central China&#8217;s megacity of Wuhan battling with a pneumonia outbreak has announced to suspend public transportation, and close the airport and railway stations to outgoing passengers, while asking citizens not to leave the city without specific reasons.<\/p>\n<p>City buses, subways, ferries, and long-distance coaches, as well as flights and trains for outgoing passengers, will be suspended starting from 10 a.m. Thursday until further notice, said a notice issued in the wee hours of Thursday by Wuhan&#8217;s headquarters for the control and treatment of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).<\/p>\n<p>The measures will be taken in a bid to &#8220;effectively cut off the virus spread, resolutely curb the outbreak and guarantee the people&#8217;s health and safety,&#8221; the notice said.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 571 cases of new coronavirus-related pneumonia and 17 deaths had been reported in Hubei Province as of 8 p.m. Wednesday, with the majority in Wuhan, the provincial capital.\u00a0<em><strong>(Xinhua)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WUHAN\u00a0&#8212; Central China&#8217;s megacity of Wuhan battling with a pneumonia outbreak has announced to suspend public transportation, and close the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":242997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-xinhua","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242998,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242996\/revisions\/242998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}