MANILA, LUZON, PHILIPPINES - 2020/02/02: Filipinos wearing face-masks following the virus outbreak.
Fear continues to mount in the Philippines over a new corona virus known as 2019-nCoV which originated in Wuhan, China in December 2019. The Philippines Department of Health announced the countrys first case of the virus on 30th January. The number of 2019-nCoV cases worldwide has already surpassed that of the 2003 Sars epidemic. (Photo by Oliver Haynes/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)