Countries react to the outbreak of corona virus what is NIGERIA doing? – Prince Samson Adewale
Death toll jumps again, infections accelerate and more countries announce evacuation flights for citizens in Wuhan. 
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The new coronavirus has risen to the 170, as more countries announced plans to evacuate their citizens from Wuhan, the Chinese city at the centre of the outbreak.
Some 7,711 people in China are now confirmed to have the infection, which has spread from Wuhan’s Hubei province to every one of China’s 31 provinces.
China’s aviation authority has approved chartered flights to bring home from overseas trips some residents of the central city of Wuhan, state television said.
Domestic and international airlines cancelled flights between Wuhan and overseas cities since January 23, in a bid to prevent the spread of the virus.
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health said it had confirmed an eighth case of the virus.
The infected woman is a Chinese national and the wife of one of the other patients in Malaysia.
The 49-year-old is being treated in an isolation award at a hospital in the southern city of Johor Bahru.
Singapore will provide every one of the country’s 1.3 million households with four surgical masks to curb the spread of the coronavirus, the government said.
Residents will be able to collect the masks from February 1, the local Straits Times newspaper reported.
The city-state has confirmed 10 cases of coronavirus.
Other countries that have announced evacuations from Wuhan
New Zealand, Singapore and Indonesia have said they making efforts to evacuate their nationals from Wuhan.
New Zealand plans to charter a 300-seat aircraft to bring home New Zealanders and would offer any additional seats to nationals from the Pacific islands and Australia
Foreign Minister Winston Peters said the flight was still subject to China’s approval.
“This is a complex operation as we work through all the necessary requirements but we are working to have the aircraft depart as soon as possible,” Peters said.
Meanwhile, Singapore’s Foreign Ministry said it planned to bring home 92 citizens from Wuhan on a special flight and Indonesia’s foreign minister said it was working to evacuate its nationals “as soon as possible.”
Sweden’s IKEA said it has temporarily closed all its stores in China because of the coronavirus outbreak.
The decision to close all of 30 stores follows an announcement from world’s biggest furniture retailer on Wednesday that it was closing around half of its stores and shortening the opening hours.
Japan now has 11 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, including two people who appear to have contracted the infection without travelling to China.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told lawmakers that the three returnees would be treated in a special medical facility.
Nearly 200 US citizens evacuated from Wuhan landed at a military base in California on Wednesday, where officials declared them free of symptoms.
They have been asked to submit samples to test for the presence of the coronavirus and will remain isolated in their quarters for a period of up to 72 hours while they are monitored, Nancy Messonnier of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said.
The chartered plane was met on the tarmac by emergency vehicles and three buses as personnel in biological hazard suits stood by.
Alyssa Farah, a spokeswoman for the Department of Defense, said the group included State Department employees and their dependents.
She added that the evacuees would “not have access to any base location other than their assigned housing.”
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