The Wuhan Virus Pandemic: What Next?

China: ‘Complicated and Grave’ The latest count puts the number of confirmed cases in China to more than 8,000 exceeding the number of confirmed cases globally during the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) crisis. [...] It has ordered a lockdown of the city of Wuhan, the central source of the disease, and neighbouring cities in Hubei province, affecting more than 60 million people. [...] More importantly, it also highlights the need to strengthen multilateral cooperation in health security at the regional and global levels to help affected countries contain the spread of the disease. [...] Learning from the SARS experience, the practice of disease surveillance and timely reporting has since been institutionalised within the ASEAN Plus Three (APT) regional disease surveillance framework, bringing together the ASEAN 10 with China, Japan and South Korea. [...] Thus, even without the WHO declaring nCoV as a PHEIC, China had reported the outbreak of the 'then unknown virus' in early January to the ASEAN Secretariat.