Doctor advises patients dance to fight coronavirus

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China tightens restrictions at the already lockeddown epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak on Tuesday. SCREENGRAB

BEIJING: As the novel coronavirus catastrophe has crept through almost the entire world, surprising doctors in China have advised patients to groove and dance on music beats in order to fight the epidemic.

China tightened restrictions at the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak on Tuesday, forbidding feverish people in Wuhan from visiting hospitals outside of their home districts.

The measure comes a day after authorities sealed off residential compounds in the central city, where the deadly virus is believed to have originated in a market selling wild animals.

Wuhan has been under effective quarantine since January 23 when the government suspended transport links out of the city in a bid to contain the virus, which has so far killed 1,016 people and infected more than 42,600 across China.

In order to “contain the spread of the epidemic”, Wuhan residents with fever symptoms are only allowed to seek treatment at designated facilities in the district they live in, the city’s health commission said on Tuesday.

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