12 international and World Health Organization (WHO) experts landed in Beijing yesterday for a joint mission with Chinese national experts to study the novel coronavirus.
From CNN's Steven Jiang in Beijing
The Chinese government is considering delaying its annual meeting of the National People's Congress , a gathering of the the country's nearly 3,000 national legislators, as the government continues to deal with the fallout from the coronavirus outbreak, Chinese state media reported. The annual plenary session has not been delayed or suspended since the end of the tumultuous Cultural Revolution in the late 1970s. It went as scheduled in 2003 amid the severe acute respiratory syndrome epidemic, which originated in China and hit the country hard. SARS eventually spread across the world to infect more than 8,000 people, killing at least 774.
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