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Chinese Authorities Begin Quarantine Of Wuhan City As Coronavirus Cases Multiply:
Wuhan's public health authorities say they are in a "state of war" as they quarantine the Chinese city in an attempt to halt the spread of a never-before-seen strain of coronavirus. "Strictly implement emergency response requirements, enter into a state of war and implement wartime measures to resolutely curb the spread of this epidemic," urged a committee of Wuhan's top officials. "Homes must be segregated, neighbors must be watched."
Later Thursday, health officials from the World Health Organization decided not to declare the outbreak an international health emergency. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that after two days of meetings in Geneva with the organization's Emergency Committee, the group was divided. "Make no mistake. This is an emergency in China, but it has not yet become a global health emergency," Tedros said. "It may yet become one." The WHO is not recommending any international restrictions on trade or travel, but does recommend exit screenings at airports.
Beginning at 10 a.m. local time (9 p.m. Wednesday ET), authorities in Wuhan, about 500 miles west of Shanghai, started sealing off public transportation, including its metro system, airport, train station and long-haul bus hubs. Livestreamed videos from the city show soldiers wearing face masks barricading the entrances to the city's train station Thursday morning to prevent passengers from entering and leaving the city.
The Chinese city of Wuhan is rushing to build a new hospital within six days to treat patients of the coronavirus that has killed at least 26 people across the country and is overwhelming the quarantined city's health system.
The 2019-nCoV virus, which had infected more than 870 people as of Friday morning, originated in Wuhan. China has closed down public-transport links in the city and at least nine others, sealing off a combined 30 million people.
Chinese tourist says she evaded coronavirus checks to fly to France
The Chinese embassy in France has urged its citizens to comply with airport coronavirus checks after a woman from Wuhan said she had evaded screenings in order to fly to France and dine in restaurants there.
The woman told on social media how she took fever medicine to mask flu-like symptoms to bypass temperature checks. Wuhan has temporarily shut down public transport to contain the deadly virus.
Coronavirus has reached Chicago, North Carolina, Minnesota, Washington, etc. 😷
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Previously:
China Reports 3rd Death, Nearly 140 New Cases of Coronavirus
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @04:48AM (1 child)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @05:01AM
It is really hard to tell from the info out there.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Coward, Anonymous on Saturday January 25 2020, @05:22AM (1 child)
If you visit China, stay away from the bat soup [thesun.co.uk].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @07:42AM
is joker soup ok?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @05:38AM (8 children)
Tell us:
1) Number of people tested for this virus
2) Number of people tested who were ill
3) Number of people tested who did not end up ill
4) Number/precent of people ill who tested negative
That is not exclusive but would be a start.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @06:52AM (5 children)
All rapidly shifting. Literally on the order of hours. 1k confirmed infected in China. They're literally building at least one hospital just for this right now from scratch to be opening in 13 days, to give you an idea of the local impact. Global, we'll see where it reaches, it won't be pandemic but it might be a global air travel lockdown within the month.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @08:41AM
We are going to build a hospital in five days. Who said five days, it will be done in six. What do you mean six days? It will be done in ten. This hospital will be done in twelve days!
All in all, best of luck china.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday January 25 2020, @08:58PM (3 children)
That "hospital" will certainly be one jury-rigged one. I guess you could to a single floor version with minimal plumbing and electrics. It would keep off the wind and the rain, and hold beds. No time to cure the foundations. Or they could co-opt an existing department store and remodel it.
But in 13 days you won't build a decent hospital from scratch, no matter how you work. Maybe an office building would be a better place to start than a department store. That way you wouldn't need to finish the conversion before you started moving patients in.
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(Score: 2) by sjames on Saturday January 25 2020, @09:47PM
I'm sure that it's based on the proven management principle of 9 women making a baby in a month. Or the even more cutting edge principle that shows you only need 4 1/2 women if they are constantly told to work smarter, not harder and other platitudes backed up with "inspirational" posters stuck to the wall at regular intervals.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 26 2020, @01:58PM
What are you talking about? They are working shifts 24h/day to build it, and they're not yet off schedule.
From an article about it:
from https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jan/24/chinese-city-wuhan-plans-to-build-coronavirus-hospital-in-six-days [theguardian.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 26 2020, @02:52PM
Some in China have been building stuff quickly for years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6ViuDT0PM4 [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwvmru5JmXk [youtube.com] (they actually took a bit longer for this one than their claims but it's still fast compared to more conventional methods).
And before these, 17 years ago they built a hospital in less than a week and got it running quite quickly.
So in 2020 I'm sure they can build another hospital as quickly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @01:24PM (1 child)
The R0 estimates were initially 3.5, now recalculated at 2.5. That's similar to SARS which was effectively reduced to 0.38 via control measures. There are videos from China of people dropping in the streets, if verified this isn't a "mild cold" as some are claiming.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday January 25 2020, @09:00PM
That "if verified" is a crucial qualifier. There's so much known garbage information circulating that my first inclination is to doubt the truth of it.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @05:44AM
Did nobody in China ever play Shadowrun?
Bug City, man. It's not a good scene. There will be pain.
Well, at least there probably hasn't been a tac nuke yet.
(Score: 3, Informative) by deimtee on Saturday January 25 2020, @07:58AM (11 children)
There is one confirmed case in Melbourne and likely more in Sydney.
https://in.reuters.com/article/china-health-australia/australia-confirms-first-case-of-coronavirus-as-protective-masks-sell-out-idINKBN1ZO04D [reuters.com]
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @08:04AM
Believe in the fires, they will protect you from Corona-chan.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Saturday January 25 2020, @08:06AM (9 children)
Meanwhile our government is saying the likelihood of it reaching here is "very low" despite the fact thousands of Chinese students will arrive next month for the start of the school year.
Yeah, we're getting it shortly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @08:50AM
Is somebody being funny with the soylent QOTD ?
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Saturday January 25 2020, @08:51AM (1 child)
Four scenarios,
We don't close the borders and shut down air travel
1. China manages containment
2. China fails containment and we demand to know why the US gov't didn't shut it all down
We close the borders
3. China manages containment and we demand to know why the US gov't overreacted and damaged the world economy so much (SARS was like 1% China's GDP
4. China fails containment and everyone is okay with it
I prefer option three although it might have been pointless because even by the time we knew we already had pretty significant world spread. This thing kicked off in mid to late December with a 14 day incubation period some people being able to spread but not show symptoms.
RO 3.8, earlier today of the total CCP reported numbers ~20% of those infected were critical, 3% died, and 3% were not getting worse.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday January 25 2020, @10:00AM
(Score: 2, Troll) by Chocolate on Saturday January 25 2020, @09:02AM (5 children)
Ban people from China. Fixes this problem and the housing market at the same time.
Bit-choco-coin anyone?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @05:29PM (2 children)
What will germophobe Trump do?
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday January 25 2020, @08:47PM (1 child)
I don't know what Trump will do, but what I do know is that all these "epidemic" jumpscares turn out to be overhyped nothingburgers like Bird flu and swine flu.
And of course (((big pharma))) gets to profit from the resulting hysteria vaccinations.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @08:49PM
Racist EF chimes in with his stupidity. Are you just so upset you aren't a billionaire yet that every rich person == jewish oppression of your potential?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 27 2020, @08:30AM
It's too late!
https://www.news.com.au/world/asia/young-female-chinese-student-likely-to-be-fifth-case-in-australia-to-contract-coronavirus/news-story/f42f2e520b4a757cf748c7fba1617cba [news.com.au]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 27 2020, @09:58AM
This post was marked as a troll but it seems that this is exactly what should have been done to contain the outbreak.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @08:33AM
where the grass is green and the girls wear face masks.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by EJ on Saturday January 25 2020, @08:50AM (2 children)
I wonder if some new (old?) viruses are emerging from beneath the once-frozen permafrost that is now melting.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by khallow on Saturday January 25 2020, @09:56AM
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @11:22AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @04:03PM (1 child)
Keep in contained people. Just like the aids virus.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday January 25 2020, @09:11PM
That depends on a couple of unknowns:
1) How many cases are both asymptomatic and contagious?
2) How contagious is the disease?
If only people expressing symptoms are contagious, or if it's barely transmissible, then there appears to be no real problem. And we don't know.
If asymptomatic people are contagious, and if it's extremely contagious (like a cold), then it's already out in the world.
Of course, an additional concern is that viruses mutate, and just because this version is safe, doesn't mean it's not one mutation away from being horrendous.
However, early indications are that it's only moderately contagious, and that it requires considerable contact to be transmissible. So even though the current version is often deadly, it appears relatively easily controllable. Also, that you're at least most contagious after the symptoms appear. (I've no clear idea how contagious that "most contagious" stage is, though. Just that it took awhile to confirm that human-to-human transmission was happening.)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @09:04PM (1 child)
it is always extra sad when a doctor or nurse dies before their time ... not to mention grave diggers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 27 2020, @10:05AM
it's easier to train more grave diggers
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 26 2020, @01:36AM
I guarantee all these people dying from the virus are depleted of vitamin C. The pharmacokinetic models developed for healthy people do not work for people who are sick, which leads to an egregious underestimate of the intake required by orders of magnitude:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5725835/ [nih.gov]
The body is using up the vitamin C to fight the inflammation.
(Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Sunday January 26 2020, @04:02PM
It can't be good when a public health worker starts off their tweet about the pandemic potential of a virus.
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1220919589623803905 [twitter.com]
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