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Evening top 5: Chinese officials to shut public transport in Wuhan amid coronavirus outbreak

Public transport temporarily shut down in Wuhan in bid to stop spread of coronavirus Public trans...
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21.52 22 Jan 2020


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Evening top 5: Chinese officials to shut public transport in Wuhan amid coronavirus outbreak

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21.52 22 Jan 2020


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Public transport temporarily shut down in Wuhan in bid to stop spread of coronavirus

Public transportation is being temporarily shut down in the Chinese city of Wuhan, in a bid to stop the spread of the coronavirus outbreak that began in the city.

17 people have now died after contracting the disease, which is continuing to spread.

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More than 540 cases have been reported.

Inquest hears Garda who shot Mark Hennessy believed Jastine Valdez was at "imminent risk of death"

Mark Hennessy

The Garda who shot Mark Hennessy has told his inquest he believed Jastine Valdez's throat was being slit and she was at “imminent risk of death.”

40-year-old Mark Hennessy abducted and killed Ms Valdez in Enniskerry in Wicklow in May 2018, before being found by Gardaí in a business park in Dublin.

Detective Garda A told the inquest his aim was to rescue Jastine Valdez and arrest Mark Hennessy.

Over 60 general election polling stations do not have wheelchair access

Over 60 polling stations around the country are not accessible to wheelchair users, according to a new survey.

Disability activist Ciarán Delaney has found that 18 stations in Limerick, 16 in Donegal and 10 in Kerr and a number in Dublin are inaccessible.

On Newstalk Breakfast his morning, he described the situation as “apartheid in another form” and said there is no excuse for the lack of access in 2020.

Monty Python star Terry Jones dies aged 77

Terry Jones Monty Python star Terry Jones. Image: Myung Jung Kim/PA Wire/PA Images

Monty Python star Terry Jones has passed away at the age of 77.

In a statement published by the BBC, his family said he died yesterday evening with his wife Anna Soderstrom by his side.

They said he had fought a “long, extremely brave but always good-humoured battle with a rare form of dementia, FTD.”

UN experts call for investigation into alleged Saudi hacking of Amazon CEO's phone

UN experts have called for an "immediate investigation" into claims that the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman was involved in the hacking of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' phone.

It's claimed that a forensic analysis of Mr Bezos' iPhone found with a "medium to high confidence" that the billionaire's phone was infiltrated in May 2018 by a video file sent from a WhatsApp account personally used by Mohammad bin Salman.

According to the analysis, the two men had exchanged phone numbers shortly before the alleged hack.

Main image: Hospital staff wash the emergency entrance of Wuhan Medical Treatment Center, where some infected with a new virus are being treated, in Wuhan. Picture by: Dake Kang/AP/Press Association Images

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