Wuhan virus (coronavirus) arrives in the USA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hong Kong has drastically cut border crossings and sealed several transit ports.

https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1505272-20200128.htm

They know more than we do about this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hong Kong has drastically cut border crossings and sealed several transit ports.

https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1505272-20200128.htm

Don’t be alarmist. The very first sentence says HK “stopped well short of a full border closure”. And the title of the article says ‘partial’ border closures.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hong Kong has drastically cut border crossings and sealed several transit ports.

https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1505272-20200128.htm

Don’t be alarmist. The very first sentence says HK “stopped well short of a full border closure”. And the title of the article says ‘partial’ border closures.

Why not full?
What international organizations have been allowed full access to investigate?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hong Kong has drastically cut border crossings and sealed several transit ports.

https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1505272-20200128.htm

Don’t be alarmist. The very first sentence says HK “stopped well short of a full border closure”. And the title of the article says ‘partial’ border closures.

Why not full?
What international organizations have been allowed full access to investigate?

A lot more happening on the ground. Most of the locals are pressing to close

[Anonymous]

Lots of masks out yesterday.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hong Kong has drastically cut border crossings and sealed several transit ports.

https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1505272-20200128.htm

Don’t be alarmist. The very first sentence says HK “stopped well short of a full border closure”. And the title of the article says ‘partial’ border closures.

New poster here. I don't know why you're questioning the OP here. It most certainly is drastic. The New York Times is reporting: "RIGHT NOW Hong Kong will severely limit travel from mainland China, suspending high-speed rail service and cutting flights by half."

Hong Kong on Tuesday implemented a broad series of restrictions aimed at controlling the spread of the coronavirus by limiting the number of mainland Chinese travelers entering the territory, one of Asia’s busiest travel and financial hubs.

The restrictions, which included the suspension of high-speed and other train services between Hong Kong and the mainland, a 50 percent reduction in the number of flights, and a ban on tourism visas for many travelers, were announced by Carrie Lam, the city’s chief executive.

The regulations, which apply to some plane, rail, bus and ferry arrivals, will begin on Thursday. They follow days of rising pressure from health care workers, epidemiologists and even pro-Beijing politicians who have traditionally supported Mrs. Lam’s government.

Previously, the Hong Kong government said restrictions would apply only to Hubei residents and to non-Hong Kong travelers who had visited that province in the past 14 days.

Hong Kong has so far recorded eight confirmed cases of the virus.

Tibet, the only region in China that has yet to report any cases, has temporarily closed all tourist sites to combat the disease’s spread, state news media reported. Major Chinese cities, including Shanghai and Beijing, have suspended long-distance bus services.

Still fresh in the memories of many Hong Kong residents are the effects of SARS, a virus that originated on the mainland in 2002 and killed 299 people in the city.

Hong Kong’s public hospitals have long suffered from strained resources, long waiting times and overcrowding. And months of street protests, and the official response to them, have dented public trust in the government.

The medical faculty of the Chinese University of Hong Kong called for more restrictions on border checkpoints as the virus spreads across China.

“The next week or two will be a critical time for the development of the epidemic. We must closely monitor whether there is a community outbreak outside Hubei Province, especially in Hong Kong’s neighboring regions,” the department said on its Facebook page.

Workers from Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority have planned a strike for next week to demand a law mandating the wearing of masks in public and banning all visitors from entering the city through the mainland.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/28/world/asia/china-coronavirus.html#link-14f298b0

[Anonymous]

I’m optimistic it hasn’t taken off in the states, Russia and India. Maybe we’ll dodge the bullet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hong Kong has drastically cut border crossings and sealed several transit ports.

https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1505272-20200128.htm

So did Russia.

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Local snow area cancels cny events

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hong Kong has drastically cut border crossings and sealed several transit ports.

https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1505272-20200128.htm

Don’t be alarmist. The very first sentence says HK “stopped well short of a full border closure”. And the title of the article says ‘partial’ border closures.

I don't think the word "drastic" is alarmist. The South China Morning Post is calling it that too.

"China coronavirus: Hong Kong government to drastically cut cross-border travel with mainland by closing railways, reducing bus services, slashing flights by half"

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3047907/china-coronavirus-hong-kong-government-deny-entry

[Anonymous]

Concerning news regarding the German case. A German man contracted the virus from a Chinese woman who was a work colleague visiting from Shanghai.

Last week, the infected man, who works for the auto parts supplier Webasto in Starnberg, had attended a training session with the visiting Chinese colleague before she returned to China and began showing symptoms of the illness. The woman had recently been visited in Shanghai by her parents, who come from the area around Wuhan, where the new virus is believed to have originated.

Her German colleague in Bavaria developed bronchitis-like symptoms over the weekend but recovered and felt well enough to go to work on Monday.

If it's true the Chinese woman didn't feel ill until she was going home, then she spread the virus while asymptomatic.

The good part of this is that German man didn't get terribly ill. But a virus with a long incubation period that can spread before symptoms show is going to be hard to stop.

[Anonymous]

Link for above https://www.dw.com/en/germany-confirms-human-transmission-of-coronavirus/a-52169007

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Anonymous wrote:Anybody has anything good to report for a change instead of bickering?

We need some good or at least hopeful news.

Thanks.

US is still sitting at 5 cases despite the fact that those 5 were on flights with hundreds of others, moved thru airports etc. Fingers crossed this continues.

Yes, that is good news for now and let's hope that it will stay that way.
Thank you PP

Something else to think about — the longest incubation period I’ve heard is 14 days with the Chinese saying it can be transmitted without symptoms and CDC saying no evidence that it can be transmitted by the asymptomatic. In either case the first case in Washington state flew in 1/15 — on a flight with hundreds of others, walked thru SeaTac and took some sort of transport home (didn’t drive himself). So if we get past the middle of this wk which will be 14 days and there aren’t a bunch of confirmed cases in/around Washington state from ppl on that flight, at the airport etc — then that’ll be a good data point re the fact that it isn’t easily spread just by being on the same flight w someone who develops it later. Again fingers crossed.

That is a very good point PP. Thanks.

Yes good point

Agreed. That would be a sign

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WHO not recommending evacuations posted a few mins ago. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/01/28/reuters-america-wrapup-5-china-says-who-chief-against-virus-related-evacuations-as-countries-plan-pull-outs.html

WHO’s HQ is in China. Don’t expect anything but compromise

[Anonymous]

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I think we aren’t getting the full scope from the Chinese Communist government.

It’s political, folks.

WHO HQ is in China. You aren’t.

Something to consider though regarding death rates - it spread through the the hospital in Wuhan and those patients admitted there prior were already compromised. That could easily account for the high death rate there.

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Anonymous wrote:Anybody has anything good to report for a change instead of bickering?

We need some good or at least hopeful news.

Thanks.

US is still sitting at 5 cases despite the fact that those 5 were on flights with hundreds of others, moved thru airports etc. Fingers crossed this continues.

Yes, that is good news for now and let's hope that it will stay that way.
Thank you PP

Something else to think about — the longest incubation period I’ve heard is 14 days with the Chinese saying it can be transmitted without symptoms and CDC saying no evidence that it can be transmitted by the asymptomatic. In either case the first case in Washington state flew in 1/15 — on a flight with hundreds of others, walked thru SeaTac and took some sort of transport home (didn’t drive himself). So if we get past the middle of this wk which will be 14 days and there aren’t a bunch of confirmed cases in/around Washington state from ppl on that flight, at the airport etc — then that’ll be a good data point re the fact that it isn’t easily spread just by being on the same flight w someone who develops it later. Again fingers crossed.

That is a very good point PP. Thanks.

Yes good point

Agreed. That would be a sign

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WHO not recommending evacuations posted a few mins ago. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/01/28/reuters-america-wrapup-5-china-says-who-chief-against-virus-related-evacuations-as-countries-plan-pull-outs.html

WHO’s HQ is in China. Don’t expect anything but compromise

Geneva?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization