I stand corrected. This is very recent news which I hadn't read.REEM wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2020 10:03 amNot so.There have been no incidents outside of China where the disease has been caught from an already infected person.
https://www.thelocal.de/20200128/number ... ps-to-fourGermany now has four confirmed cases of the coronavirus sweeping China, health officials said Tuesday, all of them employees at a Bavarian firm recently visited by a Chinese colleague.
The health ministry in Germany's southern Bavaria region said in an evening statement that it had detected a further three cases, following that of a 33-year-old German man announced earlier in the day.
"These patients are all employees of the company in the Starnberg district where the first person affected worked," the health ministry said.
READ ALSO: Coronavirus in Germany: What you need to know
The ministry added that 40 other employees at car parts supplier Webasto had been identified as having been in "close contact" with the first patient, and they will be screened on Wednesday.
All four patients are staying in an isolation ward at a Munich hospital.
Germany's first confirmed patient, the 33-year-old man, fell ill after attending a training session hosted by a visiting Chinese colleague on January 21st.
Unlike other patients of the viral outbreak in Europe so far, the man contracted the disease without having been to China himself.
A spokeswoman for the Robert Koch Institute, Germany's centre for disease prevention and control, told AFP the German case appeared to be the first instance of a "human-to-human transmission" outside Asia.
Japan has also reported a patient testing positive for the strain of coronavirus without having travelled to China.
In Vietnam, a man visiting from Wuhan is suspected of infecting his son who had been living in Ho Chi Minh City for four months.
The Chinese woman who held the training session in Germany "started to feel sick on the flight home on January 23", Andreas Zapf, head of the Bavarian State Office for Health and Food Safety, told a press conference.
She immediately sought medical attention on her return and was confirmed to have caught the virus, which has spread rapidly in recent weeks after first emerging in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
The woman had recently visited her parents in the Wuhan region, Zapf said.
In a statement, the Webasto company said it had halted all business travel to and from China "for at least the next two weeks".
The virus has so far killed over 100 people and infected more than 4,500 people in China.
Cases have also been reported in a string of other countries, including the United States, France, Australia and Japan.
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Yet you published a video with victims falling in the streets
We need to avoid Fake news, no matter how dramatic.
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I'll take the slap for that, BB. There were many vids coming out of China which I had no reason not to believe. That said, I now believe that many of these vids are scaremongering, political and generally, FAKE.
Even the info being spouted by the Chinese authorities are being disputed/questioned.
It would appear that nothing coming out of China can be believed. Except the actual virus.
Even the info being spouted by the Chinese authorities are being disputed/questioned.
It would appear that nothing coming out of China can be believed. Except the actual virus.
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Here's an article on fake articles ... (social media has a lot to answer for)
Fact Check: Novel coronavirus breeds global false claims
The deadly novel coronavirus outbreak, which has infected more than 4,500 people and spread to 15 countries since emerging in China, has also spawned many false claims on social media.
Here's a selection of misinformation debunked by AFP's Fact Check service.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/18456 ... lse-claims
Bottom line: dont use social media for news - it is digital pollution, nothing more.
Fact Check: Novel coronavirus breeds global false claims
The deadly novel coronavirus outbreak, which has infected more than 4,500 people and spread to 15 countries since emerging in China, has also spawned many false claims on social media.
Here's a selection of misinformation debunked by AFP's Fact Check service.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/18456 ... lse-claims
Bottom line: dont use social media for news - it is digital pollution, nothing more.
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Coronavirus: Australian scientists first to recreate virus outside China
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-51289897
Scientists in Australia have become the first to recreate the new coronavirus outside of China in what they have called a "significant breakthrough".
The discovery will be shared with the World Health Organization (WHO) in the hope it may help efforts to diagnose and treat the virus.
Scientists in China have also recreated the virus and shared its genome sequence, but not the virus itself.
The outbreak has killed 132 people in China and infected close to 6,000.
There are at least 47 cases confirmed in 16 other countries, including in Thailand, France, the US and Australia. No deaths have been reported outside China.
Researchers at a specialist lab in Melbourne, Australia, said they were able to grow a copy of the virus from an infected patient. The sample was sent to them last Friday.
"We've planned for an incident like this for many, many years and that's really why we were able to get an answer so quickly," said Dr Mike Catton of the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity.
Hope of 'game changer'
Doctors said the copy could be used as "control material" for testing and "will be a game changer for diagnosis".
That could involve an early-diagnosis test which could detect the virus in people who have not displayed symptoms.
Chinese authorities have said the virus - like a normal flu - is able to spread during its incubation period.
But the WHO has said it remains unclear whether it is contagious before symptoms appear.
"An antibody test will enable us to retrospectively test suspected patients so we can gather a more accurate picture of how widespread the virus is, and consequently, among other things, the true mortality rate," said Dr Catton.
"It will also assist in the assessment of effectiveness of trial vaccines."
According to the WHO, the incubation period can range from two to 10 days.
In recent days, the number of virus cases in China has jumped rapidly, despite authorities scrambling to contain its spread.
Chinese authorities have taken extensive action to effectively lock down Wuhan in Hubei province, where the virus originated, and surrounding cities.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-51289897
Scientists in Australia have become the first to recreate the new coronavirus outside of China in what they have called a "significant breakthrough".
The discovery will be shared with the World Health Organization (WHO) in the hope it may help efforts to diagnose and treat the virus.
Scientists in China have also recreated the virus and shared its genome sequence, but not the virus itself.
The outbreak has killed 132 people in China and infected close to 6,000.
There are at least 47 cases confirmed in 16 other countries, including in Thailand, France, the US and Australia. No deaths have been reported outside China.
Researchers at a specialist lab in Melbourne, Australia, said they were able to grow a copy of the virus from an infected patient. The sample was sent to them last Friday.
"We've planned for an incident like this for many, many years and that's really why we were able to get an answer so quickly," said Dr Mike Catton of the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity.
Hope of 'game changer'
Doctors said the copy could be used as "control material" for testing and "will be a game changer for diagnosis".
That could involve an early-diagnosis test which could detect the virus in people who have not displayed symptoms.
Chinese authorities have said the virus - like a normal flu - is able to spread during its incubation period.
But the WHO has said it remains unclear whether it is contagious before symptoms appear.
"An antibody test will enable us to retrospectively test suspected patients so we can gather a more accurate picture of how widespread the virus is, and consequently, among other things, the true mortality rate," said Dr Catton.
"It will also assist in the assessment of effectiveness of trial vaccines."
According to the WHO, the incubation period can range from two to 10 days.
In recent days, the number of virus cases in China has jumped rapidly, despite authorities scrambling to contain its spread.
Chinese authorities have taken extensive action to effectively lock down Wuhan in Hubei province, where the virus originated, and surrounding cities.
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Coronavirus: BA suspends flights to and from mainland China
(Chart of current cases, confirmed and suspected, and deaths at link)
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51292590
(Chart of current cases, confirmed and suspected, and deaths at link)
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51292590
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Chinese no longer welcome as coronavirus fear grips world
Airlines halt flights from China. Schools in Europe un-invite exchange students. Restaurants in South Korea turn away Chinese customers.
As a deadly virus spreads beyond China, governments, businesses and educational institutions are struggling to find the right response. Safeguarding public health is a priority.
How to do that without stigmatising the entire population of the country where the outbreak began is the challenge.
With the death toll reaching 170 and the roster of cases climbing above 7,700, worries are growing. Many global companies with operations in China have asked workers to stay home. Airlines are curtailing flights to the nation. Several countries have begun evacuating citizens from the most stricken zone around the city of Wuhan.
Though the vast majority of cases involve people from the central Chinese metropolis or nearby cities, or those who have been in contact with them, people of Asian appearance around the world say they’ve been subject to increased wariness since the disease began spreading. In some cases, baser emotions have come to the fore.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/18469 ... rips-world
Thailand still wants them ... send them there ...
Airlines halt flights from China. Schools in Europe un-invite exchange students. Restaurants in South Korea turn away Chinese customers.
As a deadly virus spreads beyond China, governments, businesses and educational institutions are struggling to find the right response. Safeguarding public health is a priority.
How to do that without stigmatising the entire population of the country where the outbreak began is the challenge.
With the death toll reaching 170 and the roster of cases climbing above 7,700, worries are growing. Many global companies with operations in China have asked workers to stay home. Airlines are curtailing flights to the nation. Several countries have begun evacuating citizens from the most stricken zone around the city of Wuhan.
Though the vast majority of cases involve people from the central Chinese metropolis or nearby cities, or those who have been in contact with them, people of Asian appearance around the world say they’ve been subject to increased wariness since the disease began spreading. In some cases, baser emotions have come to the fore.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/18469 ... rips-world
Thailand still wants them ... send them there ...
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Coronavirus: Death toll rises as virus spreads to every Chinese region
The death toll of the coronavirus has risen to 170 and with a confirmed case in Tibet, the virus has now spread to every region in mainland China.
Chinese health authorities have said there were 7,711 confirmed cases in the country as of 29 January.
Infections have also spread to at least 16 other countries........... (Full story at link)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51305526
The death toll of the coronavirus has risen to 170 and with a confirmed case in Tibet, the virus has now spread to every region in mainland China.
Chinese health authorities have said there were 7,711 confirmed cases in the country as of 29 January.
Infections have also spread to at least 16 other countries........... (Full story at link)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51305526
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China sees deadliest day yet as global virus fears mount
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/18469 ... t#cxrecs_s
WUHAN (CHINA) - China reported its biggest single-day jump in novel coronavirus deaths on Thursday, as confirmation that three Japanese evacuated from the outbreak's epicentre were infected deepened fears about a global contagion.
The World Health Organization, which initially downplayed the severity of a disease that has now killed 170 nationwide, warned all governments to be "on alert" as it weighed whether to declare a global health emergency.
As foreign countries evacuated their citizens from Wuhan, the locked-down city where the virus was first detected, concern over the economic impact has steadily intensified.
Airlines have suspended services to China and companies from Starbucks to Tesla have shuttered stores and production lines.
Chinese authorities have taken extraordinary steps to arrest the virus's spread, including effectively locking down more than 50 million people in Wuhan and surrounding Hubei province.
But that was yet to pay dividends, with the government reporting 38 new deaths in the 24 hours to Thursday, the highest one-day total. All but one were in Hubei.
The number of confirmed new cases also grew steadily to 7,711, the National Health Commission said. Another 81,000 people were under observation for possible infection.
The pathogen is believed to have been spawned in a market that sold wild game, spreading far and wide by a Lunar New Year holiday season in which hundreds of millions of Chinese travel domestically or abroad.
- 'Totally new situation' -
Japan's infection rate grew to 11 after three Japanese citizens among more than 200 on an evacuation flight Wednesday tested positive.
Officials had already confirmed two cases in which patients tested positive without having travelled to China, adding to anxiety over human-to-human transmission of the respiratory disease.
"We are in a truly new situation," Health Minister Katsunobu Kato told parliament.
The fact that two of the three new confirmed Japanese cases showed no symptoms underscored the scale of the challenge for health workers.
The WHO has come under fire after it last week declined to declare a global health emergency.
The global health body's chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed regret for what he called a "human error" in the WHO's assessment.
WHO's Emergency Committee will meet Thursday to decide whether to declare an emergency -- which could lead to travel or trade barriers.
"The whole world needs to take action," Michael Ryan, head of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme, told reporters in Geneva.
A US charter flight from Wuhan arrived Wednesday at a California military base with nearly 200 consular staff and other Americans, who "cheered loudly" when the jet touched down, said an official with US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
All passengers were declared symptom-free but will remain isolated for days while they are monitored.
Some 250 French citizens and 100 other Europeans will be flown out of Wuhan on board two French planes this week.
Australia plans to house any citizens it evacuates from the city on an island normally used to detain asylum seekers.
A growing number of governments -- including the United States, Britain and Germany -- have advised their citizens to avoid non-essential travel to China.
China also has urged its own citizens to delay trips abroad, after more than 15 countries confirmed infections.
- Flights scrapped, stores closed -
Major airlines that have suspended or pared back service to China include British Airways, German flag carrier Lufthansa, American Airlines, KLM, and United.
China efforts to halt the virus have seen the suspension of classes nationwide and an extension of the Lunar New Year holiday.
Most street traffic in and around Wuhan has been banned.
"This is the first day since the lockdown that I've had to go out," a man in his 50s told AFP on the mostly deserted streets of the industrial city.
"I have no choice because I need to buy food."
China's football body meanwhile said it was postponing "all levels and all types of football matches across the country", including the country's top-tier Chinese Super League, in response to the outbreak.
- Economic worries -
Japanese automaker Toyota, Swedish furniture giant IKEA, tech giant Foxconn, Starbucks, Tesla and McDonald's were among major corporate giants to temporarily freeze production or close large numbers of outlets in China.
As the "world's factory", the disruptions in China are expected to send ripples through supply chains globally, denting profits.
US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the new coronavirus posed a fresh risk to a fragile world economy, adding that the US central bank was on alert.
"There will clearly be implications at least in the near term for Chinese output and I would guess for some of their close neighbours," Powell said.
The contagion has spread to nearly every corner of China, with remote Tibet reporting its first case on Thursday.
It has triggered fears in part due to its striking similarity to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak of 2002-03, which also began in China and eventually killed nearly 800 people worldwide.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/18469 ... t#cxrecs_s
WUHAN (CHINA) - China reported its biggest single-day jump in novel coronavirus deaths on Thursday, as confirmation that three Japanese evacuated from the outbreak's epicentre were infected deepened fears about a global contagion.
The World Health Organization, which initially downplayed the severity of a disease that has now killed 170 nationwide, warned all governments to be "on alert" as it weighed whether to declare a global health emergency.
As foreign countries evacuated their citizens from Wuhan, the locked-down city where the virus was first detected, concern over the economic impact has steadily intensified.
Airlines have suspended services to China and companies from Starbucks to Tesla have shuttered stores and production lines.
Chinese authorities have taken extraordinary steps to arrest the virus's spread, including effectively locking down more than 50 million people in Wuhan and surrounding Hubei province.
But that was yet to pay dividends, with the government reporting 38 new deaths in the 24 hours to Thursday, the highest one-day total. All but one were in Hubei.
The number of confirmed new cases also grew steadily to 7,711, the National Health Commission said. Another 81,000 people were under observation for possible infection.
The pathogen is believed to have been spawned in a market that sold wild game, spreading far and wide by a Lunar New Year holiday season in which hundreds of millions of Chinese travel domestically or abroad.
- 'Totally new situation' -
Japan's infection rate grew to 11 after three Japanese citizens among more than 200 on an evacuation flight Wednesday tested positive.
Officials had already confirmed two cases in which patients tested positive without having travelled to China, adding to anxiety over human-to-human transmission of the respiratory disease.
"We are in a truly new situation," Health Minister Katsunobu Kato told parliament.
The fact that two of the three new confirmed Japanese cases showed no symptoms underscored the scale of the challenge for health workers.
The WHO has come under fire after it last week declined to declare a global health emergency.
The global health body's chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed regret for what he called a "human error" in the WHO's assessment.
WHO's Emergency Committee will meet Thursday to decide whether to declare an emergency -- which could lead to travel or trade barriers.
"The whole world needs to take action," Michael Ryan, head of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme, told reporters in Geneva.
A US charter flight from Wuhan arrived Wednesday at a California military base with nearly 200 consular staff and other Americans, who "cheered loudly" when the jet touched down, said an official with US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
All passengers were declared symptom-free but will remain isolated for days while they are monitored.
Some 250 French citizens and 100 other Europeans will be flown out of Wuhan on board two French planes this week.
Australia plans to house any citizens it evacuates from the city on an island normally used to detain asylum seekers.
A growing number of governments -- including the United States, Britain and Germany -- have advised their citizens to avoid non-essential travel to China.
China also has urged its own citizens to delay trips abroad, after more than 15 countries confirmed infections.
- Flights scrapped, stores closed -
Major airlines that have suspended or pared back service to China include British Airways, German flag carrier Lufthansa, American Airlines, KLM, and United.
China efforts to halt the virus have seen the suspension of classes nationwide and an extension of the Lunar New Year holiday.
Most street traffic in and around Wuhan has been banned.
"This is the first day since the lockdown that I've had to go out," a man in his 50s told AFP on the mostly deserted streets of the industrial city.
"I have no choice because I need to buy food."
China's football body meanwhile said it was postponing "all levels and all types of football matches across the country", including the country's top-tier Chinese Super League, in response to the outbreak.
- Economic worries -
Japanese automaker Toyota, Swedish furniture giant IKEA, tech giant Foxconn, Starbucks, Tesla and McDonald's were among major corporate giants to temporarily freeze production or close large numbers of outlets in China.
As the "world's factory", the disruptions in China are expected to send ripples through supply chains globally, denting profits.
US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the new coronavirus posed a fresh risk to a fragile world economy, adding that the US central bank was on alert.
"There will clearly be implications at least in the near term for Chinese output and I would guess for some of their close neighbours," Powell said.
The contagion has spread to nearly every corner of China, with remote Tibet reporting its first case on Thursday.
It has triggered fears in part due to its striking similarity to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak of 2002-03, which also began in China and eventually killed nearly 800 people worldwide.
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This is the biggest concern with this outbreak. They cannot be trusted to tell the truth:
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China accused of cremating bodies in secret as coronavirus patient numbers spike
https://au.news.yahoo.com/china-cremate ... 22348.html
China has reportedly begun cremating the bodies of those who have died from coronavirus in secret as the number of people diagnosed with coronavirus rises to almost 8000.
It has now infected more people in China than were sickened there during the 2002-2003 SARS outbreak.
The number of cases jumped to 7771 in China, surpassing the 5327 people diagnosed with SARS, while the amount of global cases confirmed was at 7894 on Wednesday.
Seven cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Australia across three states.
The death toll, which rose to 170 on Wednesday, is still less than half the number who died in China from SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome. Scientists say there are many questions to be answered about the new virus, including just how easily it spreads and how severe it is.
William Yang, a journalist for German publication Deutsche-Welle, claims China is “hiding” the number of deaths from the virus.
more at the link>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Yang cited Initium Media as a “credible” source and journalists had “interviewed people working at local cremation centres”.
The sources confirmed “many dead bodies” were sent directly from hospitals to the cremation centres “without properly identifying these patients”.
“Which means there are patients who died from the virus but not adding to the official record. That shows the current death toll of 133 that we are seeing is way too low,” Yang tweeted before the death toll rose to 170.
His allegations of China misleading the public are also backed by a nurse who claims in a video 90,000 people have been diagnosed with the virus.
Speaking in Chinese, with subtitles, she calls for help.
“We don’t care what the government says,” she says.
“I will tell you through social media. Everyone, please donate masks, glasses and clothes to Wuhan.
“Please help us. Please donate disposable goggles, disposable masks and disposable clothing. Currently our resources are not enough.”
‘Great concern’
The World Health Organisation’s emergencies chief said the few cases of human-to-human spread of the virus outside China — in Japan, Germany, Canada and Vietnam — were of “great concern” and were part of the reason the UN health agency’s director-general was reconvening a committee of experts on Thursday to assess whether the outbreak should be declared a global emergency.
Dr Michael Ryan spoke at a news conference in Geneva after returning from a trip to Beijing to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other senior government leaders.
He said China was taking “extraordinary measures in the face of an extraordinary challenge” posed by the outbreak.
Dr Ryan estimated the death rate of the new virus at two per cent, but said the figure was very preliminary.
With fluctuating numbers of cases and deaths, scientists are only able to produce a rough estimate of the fatality rate and it is likely many milder cases of the virus are being missed.
In comparison, the SARS virus killed about 10 per cent of people who caught it. The new virus is from the coronavirus family, which includes those that can cause the common cold as well as more serious illnesses such as SARS and MERS.
Dr Ryan noted there were several aspects of the new virus outbreak that are extremely worrying, citing the recent rapid spike in cases in China. He said that while scientists believe the outbreak was sparked by an animal virus, it’s unclear if there are other factors driving the epidemic.
“Without understanding that, it’s very hard to put into context the current transmission dynamics,” he said.
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China accused of cremating bodies in secret as coronavirus patient numbers spike
https://au.news.yahoo.com/china-cremate ... 22348.html
China has reportedly begun cremating the bodies of those who have died from coronavirus in secret as the number of people diagnosed with coronavirus rises to almost 8000.
It has now infected more people in China than were sickened there during the 2002-2003 SARS outbreak.
The number of cases jumped to 7771 in China, surpassing the 5327 people diagnosed with SARS, while the amount of global cases confirmed was at 7894 on Wednesday.
Seven cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Australia across three states.
The death toll, which rose to 170 on Wednesday, is still less than half the number who died in China from SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome. Scientists say there are many questions to be answered about the new virus, including just how easily it spreads and how severe it is.
William Yang, a journalist for German publication Deutsche-Welle, claims China is “hiding” the number of deaths from the virus.
more at the link>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Yang cited Initium Media as a “credible” source and journalists had “interviewed people working at local cremation centres”.
The sources confirmed “many dead bodies” were sent directly from hospitals to the cremation centres “without properly identifying these patients”.
“Which means there are patients who died from the virus but not adding to the official record. That shows the current death toll of 133 that we are seeing is way too low,” Yang tweeted before the death toll rose to 170.
His allegations of China misleading the public are also backed by a nurse who claims in a video 90,000 people have been diagnosed with the virus.
Speaking in Chinese, with subtitles, she calls for help.
“We don’t care what the government says,” she says.
“I will tell you through social media. Everyone, please donate masks, glasses and clothes to Wuhan.
“Please help us. Please donate disposable goggles, disposable masks and disposable clothing. Currently our resources are not enough.”
‘Great concern’
The World Health Organisation’s emergencies chief said the few cases of human-to-human spread of the virus outside China — in Japan, Germany, Canada and Vietnam — were of “great concern” and were part of the reason the UN health agency’s director-general was reconvening a committee of experts on Thursday to assess whether the outbreak should be declared a global emergency.
Dr Michael Ryan spoke at a news conference in Geneva after returning from a trip to Beijing to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other senior government leaders.
He said China was taking “extraordinary measures in the face of an extraordinary challenge” posed by the outbreak.
Dr Ryan estimated the death rate of the new virus at two per cent, but said the figure was very preliminary.
With fluctuating numbers of cases and deaths, scientists are only able to produce a rough estimate of the fatality rate and it is likely many milder cases of the virus are being missed.
In comparison, the SARS virus killed about 10 per cent of people who caught it. The new virus is from the coronavirus family, which includes those that can cause the common cold as well as more serious illnesses such as SARS and MERS.
Dr Ryan noted there were several aspects of the new virus outbreak that are extremely worrying, citing the recent rapid spike in cases in China. He said that while scientists believe the outbreak was sparked by an animal virus, it’s unclear if there are other factors driving the epidemic.
“Without understanding that, it’s very hard to put into context the current transmission dynamics,” he said.
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The presumption that China must be trying to orchestrate a cover-up is just too predictable, yet none of it seems more than vexatious speculation. We do know that as soon as they realised they had a new bug on their hands, they wasted no time sharing information on it to laboratories around the world to hasten the creation of a vaccine. That's not old cold war communist secrecy, but enlightened common sense.
Reports from China on its spread (which also strike me as being very candid and open) are now indicating, as I feared, that containment measures are not succeeding. China as a nation is close to being in lockdown itself with many airlines halting flights.
Whilst that might work in the short term, I can't see it working for very long. If this bug becomes endemic in China, then either that country goes into permanent isolation, or it spreads globally. It seems unlikely to go away without running its course through the global population.
Isolating China until a vaccine is available is a theoretical possible, but what is the timeline here? Even with all the stops pulled out and some safeguards by-passed, it could still take two or three years.
My feeling is that the cat is out of the bag here..
Reports from China on its spread (which also strike me as being very candid and open) are now indicating, as I feared, that containment measures are not succeeding. China as a nation is close to being in lockdown itself with many airlines halting flights.
Whilst that might work in the short term, I can't see it working for very long. If this bug becomes endemic in China, then either that country goes into permanent isolation, or it spreads globally. It seems unlikely to go away without running its course through the global population.
Isolating China until a vaccine is available is a theoretical possible, but what is the timeline here? Even with all the stops pulled out and some safeguards by-passed, it could still take two or three years.
My feeling is that the cat is out of the bag here..
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Coronavirus: 6,000 locked down on cruise ship off Italy – live news
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Not to worry!
The PM of Thailand has said that coronavirus situation in Thailand is “100% under control” and that he will personally take charge of overseeing the operations.
However, scientists in the UK have said that the city that is most at risk is BKK and the country most at risk is Thailand.
Be careful out there.
The PM of Thailand has said that coronavirus situation in Thailand is “100% under control” and that he will personally take charge of overseeing the operations.
However, scientists in the UK have said that the city that is most at risk is BKK and the country most at risk is Thailand.
Be careful out there.
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Coronavirus declared global health emergency
Coronavirus is declared global emergency by World Health Organization as outbreak continues to spread outside China
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Coronavirus is declared global emergency by World Health Organization as outbreak continues to spread outside China
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