China COVID outbreak raises global alarm; see pics

A woman attends to a loved one at a hospital in Suining in southwestern China's Sichuan province.

Patients lie on beds and stretchers in a hallway in the emergency department of a hospital, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Shanghai, China.

A security personnel in a protective suit keeps watch as medical workers attend to patients at the fever department of Tongji Hospital, a major facility for patients of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Wuhan, Hubei province, China.

Medical workers of the intensive care unit transfer a patient of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at Suining Central Hospital in Suining, Sichuan province, China.

Patients lie on stretchers in a hallway in the emergency department of a hospital, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Shanghai, China.

Elderly people walk past a pharmacy after strict measures to curb the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were removed nationwide, in Yongquan town of Jianyang, Sichuan province, China.

Patients lie on beds and stretchers in a hallway in the emergency department of a hospital, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Shanghai, China.

A staff member wearing a protective mask and a face shield guides people to get on a shuttle bus at Grand Lisboa casino which is operated by SJM Holdings, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Macau, China.

Travellers arrive at Macau from the border checkpoint with the neighbouring city of Zhuhai, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Macau, China.

People wait with their luggages at a railway station, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Wuhan, Hubei province, China.