The novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is showing no signs of letting up, as China quarantines millions of people and travel restrictions are issued around the world. 

The World Health Organization reports that worldwide 362 people have now died and more than 17,000 are infected. 

The majority of cases remain in the city of Wuhan in Hubei Province, where public health officials built a makeshift hospital in just ten days. It opened its doors Monday to patients.

CGTN asked Anthony Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health if the coronavirus could become a pandemic. 

He said it's possible. "We are in the middle of an evolving situation with a virus that we have never had any other experience with up until just most recently."

There isn't enough data to draw firm conclusions yet. "I mean we have a month and a few days worth of experience with a virus that's rapidly accelerating in China and has already been mostly through travel, through 26 plus countries, including the United States," Fauci said. "So, whether or not this becomes an ongoing outbreak in multiple countries spread throughout the world, hence making it a pandemic, we don't have any idea of that. But it certainly could happen."