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posted by martyb on Monday January 27 2020, @08:56AM   Printer-friendly
from the stay-aware-and-wash-your-hands dept.

China Battles Coronavirus Outbreak: All the Latest Updates:

The virus thought to have originated in a Wuhan food market continues to spread as China steps up containment efforts.

[...] China is extending the Lunar New Year holiday for three days and enforcing strict containment measures in an attempt to curb the spread of a new coronavirus that has killed 80 people and infected at more than 2,700, most of them in the central province of Hubei where the virus first emerged.

The holiday season was due to end on Friday but will now be extended until February 2.

More than 56 million people in almost 20 cities, including the Hubei capital of Wuhan, have been affected by travel restrictions, introduced amid fears the transmission rate will balloon as hundreds of millions of Chinese travel during the Lunar New Year celebrations.

[...] Health authorities around the world are taking action to prevent a pandemic as more countries report cases. Confirmed cases have so far been announced in several Asiancountries, Europe and North America.

[...] The World Health Organization (WHO) has acknowledged the respiratory illness, which has been traced to the city of Wuhan, is an emergency in China but the organisation said on Thursday it was too early to declare the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by maggotbrain on Monday January 27 2020, @09:20PM (1 child)

    by maggotbrain (6063) on Monday January 27 2020, @09:20PM (#949577)
    Part of the concern, I think, is that the Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has been given a CFR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_fatality_rate [wikipedia.org] of around ~2.9. It was initially given a CFR of ~3.8 by one researcher and then quickly dialed down. For perspective, the Spanish Flu of 1918 has a CFR rating ~2.5 which infected ~500,000,000 and killed ~50 million+ globally.

    Since this is still a relatively new outbreak the exact numbers are still being debated and media panic is apparently confounding the issue. My 0.02. YMMV.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 27 2020, @10:22PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 27 2020, @10:22PM (#949611)

    Media panic? They haven't even figured out that it is an escaped bioweapon yet.