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LOOK: Some Shanghai streets virtually empty, as coronavirus alert persists

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<div class="media-content"><div class="slider-for"><div><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/life/02/01/shanghai-streets-1.jpg"/></div><div><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/life/02/01/shanghai-streets-2.jpg"/></div><div><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/life/02/01/shanghai-streets-3.jpg"/></div><div><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/life/02/01/shanghai-streets-4.jpg"/></div></div><div class="media-content slider-desc"><div class="item-desc"><p>Shimen Yi Road in Shanghai on Saturday. <cite>Courtesy of Robert Ang</cite></p></div><div class="item-desc"><p>Zhongshan Dong Er Road in Shanghai on Saturday. <cite>Courtesy of Robert Ang</cite></p></div><div class="item-desc"><p>Zhongshan Dong Er Road in Shanghai on Saturday. <cite>Courtesy of Robert Ang</cite></p></div><div class="item-desc"><p>Swire Properties, Taikoo Hui Shopping Mall in Shanghai on Saturday. <cite>Courtesy of Robert Ang</cite></p></div></div></div><p>Parts of Shanghai looked like a scene from a dystopian movie, after photographs taken on Saturday showed the city’s streets and a mall virtually empty.</p><p>Robert Ang, a Chinese citizen living in the Philippines who went to Shanghai for the Chinese New Year, submitted these photos he took as he was going to his office.</p><p>Shanghai has been forced to restrict city operations as a response to the growing threat of the 2019 novel coronavirus in China.</p><p>According to a <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/27/coronavirus-us-companies-suspend-operations-restrict-travel-as-outbreak-spreads.html">CNBC report</a>, the city government ordered companies not to resume work until Feb. 3, Monday. Disney also closed its local resort.</p><p>A number of international flights with a Shanghai route have been suspended, too.</p><p>The number of deaths from a coronavirus epidemic in China has risen by 46 to 259, the country&#x27;s health authority said on Saturday, as the United States and other nations announced new border curbs on foreigners who have been in China.</p><p>In its latest figures, China&#x27;s National Health Commission said there were 2,102 new confirmed infections in China on Friday, bringing the cumulative total to 11,791. Around two dozen other countries have reported another 137 cases.</p>

<p>Shanghai has been forced to restrict city operations as a response to the growing threat of the 2019 novel coronavirus in China.</p>

Shanghai has been forced to restrict city operations as a response to the growing threat of the 2019 novel coronavirus in China.