Quarantine

As international health authorities called on people who had been to areas affected by the deadly new coronavirus to isolate themselves for 14 days to check for symptoms, a Turkish man put himself under a self-imposed quarantine.

More than 24,500 people worldwide are now infected with the coronavirus, the AP reported, citing the latest data released today in Beijing.

490 people have died and 24 324 cases have been confirmed in mainland China. Another 17 cases have been confirmed in Hong Kong. Macau has identified 10 cases of infection.

The government approved on Tuesday the establishment of emergency medical supplies for epidemics and measures regarding the establishment of quarantine under an emergency ordinance that also provides for the purchase of thermal scanners to equip Romania's 16 airports. "The establishment of emergency medical stocks for epidemics and other events generating multiple victims was approved.

Turkey's health minister on Feb. 2 announced that sample tests on 42 evacuees airlifted from Wuhan, China -- the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak -- would be released on Feb. 3.

A team of military medical specialists will participate in the transportation by military transport to Bulgaria of the Bulgarians arriving from China. They will be accommodated in the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Military Medical Academy in special-access rooms, the hospital said on January 31, BNT reported.

Russia has confirmed two cases of the disease.

Countries around the do not operate flights to China anymore. Yesterday, the World Health Organization declared an international emergency due to the Chinese virus.

Three Greek nationals are in quarantine in the Chinese province of Hubei, according to diplomatic sources cited by state-run news agency ANA-MPA on Friday evening.

Several countries began isolating hundreds of citizens evacuated from the Chinese city of Wuhan in an effort to stop the global spread of an epidemic which has killed 170, with South Korea calling for calm in the face of protests at a quarantine center.

Asian stocks and currencies fell on Jan. 30 as fatalities rose and more cases were reported around the world.

Turkey has prepared thermographic cameras and other precautionary measures against the spread of the new flu-like coronavirus, but there are currently no cases or patients at risk, the Health Ministry said.

The number of the death cases has increased to 9 with 440 confirmed cases.

Animal rights activists were allowed to observe the barns in which some 1,100 horses are kept under quarantine in the Princes' Islands off Istanbul after 105 of them were killed due to glanders, an infectious disease that occurs primarily in horses and can be contracted by humans and other animals.