That's affected about 56 million people in total outside China.

Three cases of being confirmed in France.

That's the first time the virus has been identified in Europe.

Simon Jones has the latest.

For some, the holiday celebrations have begun.

But in Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak of Corona virus, it looks more like a ghost town, home to around 11 million people.

While the streets are empty, the hospitals aren't overwhelmed with potential cases.

The symptoms include coughs, fever and breathing problems.

The city is now rapidly building a new hospital, which will have 1000 beds.

It could be ready within days, a sign of the concern about the virus.

Some tourists flying out of China to the U.

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Were relieved way cool at first, but then when everything starts shutting down, we thought we should leave.

I've been in and out of China a few times, and this is one of the rare times that I felt like it was time for me in France.

The confirmation that the virus has spread way we have today, the first European cases.

It's possible that we have them because we developed the test very quickly and we're capable of identifying them.

Test in the UK have so far proved negative.

We think that there's a fair chance we may get some some cases over time.

Of course, this depends on whether this continues for a long time or whether this turns out to be something which has brought under control relatively quickly by the considerable efforts of the Chinese government.

Those efforts involved travel restrictions in an increasing number of cities on medics from the military are being sent in to try to contain the outbreak.