It was New Year's Eve 2019 when health officials in China admitted they had a problem the health authorities have activated them a serious response level after an outbreak of a new type of viral pneumonia in central China a rapidly growing number of people were developing a dry cough and fever before getting pneumonia and for some it turned fatal doctors have named the disease kovat 19 or coronavirus disease 20 19 indicating that a type of virus is causing illness when they try to trace its origin they found a likely source this food market in Wuhan over the first 41 patients 27 had been here it wasn't conclusive evidence but Chinese officials quickly shut down the market they had seen this happen before at a place just like this the health officials are trying to get a grip on an alarming outbreak of SARS the virus originated in mainland China has spread across the country the disease have been festering for months in southern China in 2002 a corona virus had emerged at a ver