among the 1st patients many have direct ties to the hunan seafood market where wild life is also sold. by january 1st it shut down. 2020 dawns chinese health authorities announce they've identified the culprit a novel coronavirus a 61 year old becomes the outbreak 1st official casualty the number of people affected starts to rise and before long thailand confirms a 1st case outside china's borders then japan reports another. unsettlingly neither had visited the markets so person to person transmission looks increasingly likely. and inside china the virus spreads to other cities people begin wearing masks over 200 cases are confirmed experts predict many more. medical workers and han themselves grow sick after treating patients taiwan and the u.s. report cases followed by a number of other countries including germany. the chinese government takes a drastic step suspending all traffic out of new hot as well as public transport in the city. researchers report the corona virus has an incubation period and that carrier is not yet showing symptoms might be contagious just as the lunar new y

authorities admit they're investigating an outbreak among the 1st patients many have direct ties to the hunan seafood market where wild life is also sold by january 1st it shut down. 2020 dawns chinese health authorities announced they've identified the culprit a novel coronavirus a 61 year old becomes the outbreak 1st official casualty. the number of people affected starts to rise and before long thailand confirms the 1st case outside china's borders then japan reports another unsettlingly neither had visited the markets so person to person transmission looks increasingly likely. and inside china the virus spreads to other cities people begin wearing masks over 200 cases are confirmed experts predict many more. medical workers and han themselves grow sick after treating patients taiwan and the us report cases followed by a number of other countries including germany the chinese government takes a drastic step suspending all traffic out of as well as public transport in the city. researchers report the corona virus has an incubation period and that carrier is not yet showing symptoms might be

some very heavy rain of course into central and southern china and unfortunately this is a result and hunan province there was a huge landslide which the rail this train of course a landslide happening because of the torrential downpours and one person died in this crash 127 people were injured through wednesday the rains are still in the 4 call strong central and southern china but not as heavy is the turn already home shoot you see the very heavy amounts of rain again we could here have some localized flooding but it's meeting fairly rapidly pushing and should stay mostly to the east of as we go through thursday but this is when the rain is back in the forecast again here now to the south and also going to hong so a down day like in hong kong with a high all that 23 india is a fairly quiet picture we have got some rain showers to the far north really through the mountains maybe some snow flurries up there as well we could see some rain with know that afghanistan on into northern areas of pakistan but that really does clear as we go through thursday and as i say elsewhere it's a quite pict

they are offering more incentives to try to get people to buy -- to make big-ticket purchases since in hunan province and guangdong, they are offering hundreds of people to people so they can buy a car. >> let's talk about some reports we've seen with regard to economic activity getting back on speed apple is trying to get their stores back up and running with limited hours. starbucks is opening up limited outlets. it seems economic activity is trying to get back up to speed from your thoughts and your observations, are we there how far away are we from getting china back up and running? >> well, the government wants china to get up and running. you do see some more signs of activity like you mentioned, some shops are open some of the factories. when i speak to people in the factory sector they say they are getting more people into their factories to be able to produce more products. it is happening. the pace a still big question mark we had encouraging signs because the epidemic is coming under control. wuh wuhan, the epicenter, had closed a pop-up hospital because the new infection rate is

the government of hunan province has appointed an executive chairman to alleviate the growing threat to the travel industry which is h&a's main source of income. the civil aviation authority and china development bank are also involved. abu dhabi is turning to its $240 billion wealth fund to bail out troubled hospital operator. it's considering a potential investment in uae's largest health care provider. the ftse 100 company is said to be facing investigation by regulators over allegations of fraud. abu dhabi is keen to support the companies who shares have been in freefall since december. risk currencies are plummeting as traders are getting early taste of how brutal the turmoil in markets is going to be. we bring in our editor. andrea, we are seeing some really heavy losses from the likes of the aussie and the kiwi. >> we certainly are. down quite a bit this morning. also the yuan is down. we had those really poor china pmi numbers. at the same time we have got the yen going up. as there is this race to save harbor assets. we've also seen australian bonds jumping this morning. yie