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The Committee of the Guangdong Provincial People's Congress held an emergency meeting and immediately authorised the Guangzhou and Shenzhen Governments to urgently requisition houses, facilities, materials, etc. as an emergency epidemic prevention response when necessary. This is the first time since China's reform and opening up, and also the first time since the 2007 Property Rights Law. The government is authorized to expropriate private property. The Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial People's Congress convened an emergency meeting in the morning to adopt the "Decision of the Standing Committee of the Guangzhou Municipal People's Congress on the Prevention and Control of the New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic Law", the municipal and district governments, and the headquarters of the New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention Work According to the needs of epidemic prevention…

At the beginning of the meeting, District Council proposed to pay tribute to doctor Li Wenliang who had been accused of rumors in the Mainland China after reporting the epidemic, and then died of Wuhan pneumonia. The Hong Kong Sai Kung District Council also unanimously passed a number of motions, including the proposal asking Commissioner of Hong Kong Police to lead the Hong Kong police to Wuhan to support the epidemic prevention. He said that the police ’s anti-epidemic equipment was better than that of Hong Kong and the Mainland. In order to let the Hong Kong police force show loyalty and courage, the Hong Kong police force should go to Wuhan to fight the epidemic.

Three more people were diagnosed with Wuhan pneumonia on Sunday in Singapore, including a 71-year-old man, a Bangladeshi worker and a 54-year-old Singaporean man working at Resorts World Sentosa in Sentosa. The three were unrelated to previous confirmed cases and have not travelled recently. Singapore's Ministry of Health says 43 people have been diagnosed so far and 6 of them are in critical condition. In addition, three South Korean nationals were diagnosed in Shandong, marking the first South Korean national infection in China.