Countries Step Up Measures to Prevent Spread of Viral Pneumonia From China as It Reports More Cases

Medical staff members carry a patient into the Jinyintan hospital, where patients infected by a mysterious SARS-like viral pneumonia are being treated, in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on January 18, 2020. STR/AFP via Getty Images

Chinese authorities on Jan. 19 reported a third death due to a viral pneumonia that first broke out in the central city of Wuhan.

And for the first time, China confirmed cases of infection outside of Wuhan, suggesting that the disease has spread more widely than authorities previously let on.