Rumours wreak havoc and the following news piece suggests the tragic nature of the same. Since the coronavirus spread news came to the fore from China, over 250 people have died from the infection so far and around 12,000 new infections have been reported.?However, this is not the only distressing news coming from China after the coronavirus outbreak. Pet owners have been reportededly throwing their beloved cats and dogs from the apartments only because of claims suggesting the deadly coronavirus can be passed on by the animals, a report in the news.com.au stated.
Pictures of corpses of animals lying on the road have been the doing the rounds on social media after being pushed to their death from the high-rise apartments.
China continues to face deepening isolation over its coronavirus epidemic as the death toll soared to 259, with the United States and Australia leading a growing list of nations to impose extraordinary Chinese travel bans.
With Britain, Russia and Sweden among the countries confirming their first infections, the virus has now spread to more than two dozen nations, sending governments scurrying to limit their exposure.
The United States toughened its stance by declaring a national emergency, temporarily barring entry to foreigners who had been in China within the past two weeks.
"Foreign nationals, other than immediate family of US citizens and permanent residents, who have travelled in China within the last 14 days will be denied entry into the United States," Health Secretary Alex Azar said.
Australia said it was barring entry to non-citizens arriving from China, while Australian citizens who had travelled there would be required to go into "self-isolation" for two weeks.
Similar steps have been taken by countries including Italy, Singapore, and China's northern neighbour Mongolia.
The United States, Japan, Britain, Germany and other nations already had advised their citizens not to travel to China.
Beijing, which insists it can contain the virus, began to show impatience over the growing ostracism, with the foreign ministry calling Washington's earlier advice against travel to China "unkind".
"Certainly it is not a gesture of goodwill," foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said.
The virus emerged in early December and has been traced to a market in Hubei's capital Wuhan that sold wild animals.
It spread globally on the wings of a Lunar New Year holiday rush that sees hundreds of millions of Chinese people travel domestically and overseas.
In India, 324 Indians were evacuated from the coronavirus-hit Chinese city of Wuhan.
The 324 evacuees -- including 3 minors and 211 students -- had arrived in India on Saturday morning on Air India's Boeing 747 Jumbo aircraft. The passengers will be kept in isolation at the quarantine facilities for 14 days in the said locations.
All the evacuees had gone through the necessary screening at the Indira Gandhi International Airport upon arrival.