GLOBAL IMAGES: COVID19 PANDEMIC- 12.01.2019 -Day 89- Coronavirus spreads faster outside China as fears of US impact hit markets
.Commuters on a metro train in Milan, Italy, on Feb 25, 2020. Governments worldwide are scrambling to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus after a surge of infections in Italy, Iran and South Korea.PHOTO: EPA-EFE
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World ‘simply not ready’ for its spread, says WHO China mission chief
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THE EPICENTER: CHINA
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GUANGDONG PROV.- 14% of recovered coronavirus patients in China’s Guangdong tested positive again.
(CAIXIN GLOBAL) – About 14 per cent of patients who recovered from the novel coronavirus and were discharged from hospitals in southern China’s Guangdong province were tested positive again in later check-ups, according to the local health authority.
A positive test suggests the recovered patients may still carry the virus, adding complexity to efforts to control the outbreak.
There is no clear conclusion on why it happens and whether such patients could still be infectious, said Song Tie, deputy director of the Guangdong Centre of Disease Control And Prevention (Guangdong CDC), at a Tuesday (Feb 25) briefing.
According to the preliminary assessment, experts believed the patients are still recovering from lung infections and have yet to be fully healthy, according to Song.
According to the latest treatment guidelines for the Covid-19 issued by the National Health Commission, patients can be considered recovered and released from hospital when their throat or nose swabs show up negative in two consecutive tests, with a CT scan indicating no lung lesions, and when they have no obvious symptoms such as fever.
The guidelines suggest recovered patients should monitor their health and limit outdoor activities for two weeks after leaving the hospital, and check in for retesting in following weeks.
Some patients’ test results returned to positive in the follow-up checks, said Li Yueping, director of the intensive care unit at Guangzhou No.8 People’s Hospital at the briefing.
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Coronavirus spreads faster outside China as fears of US impact hit markets
SHANGHAI/SEOUL (REUTERS) – The number of new coronavirus infections inside China – the source of the outbreak – was for the first time overtaken by fresh cases elsewhere on Wednesday (Feb 26), as US markets turned negative on fears over the rapid global spread of the disease.
Asia reported hundreds of new cases, Brazil confirmed Latin America’s first infection and the new disease – Covid-19 – also hit Pakistan, Greece and Algeria.
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Travel agents told to suspend tours to virus outbreak cities
Health authorities have told tour operators to suspend package tours to cities where the coronavirus (Covid-19) has been reported, notably South Korea, where the virus has spread rapidly in recent days.
While the rate of infection has declined in China where the virus emerged, the sharp increase in infections in Korea – a popular destination for Lao holidaymakers – has prompted concern among Lao officials.
.“Our taskforce has drafted an announcement to notify tour operators to suspend trips to outbreak areas,” said Deputy Minister of Health Associate Prof. Dr Phouthone Moungpak, referring to the taskforce in charge of dealing with Covid-19.
Speaking at a press conference at the health ministry on Wednesday, Dr Phouthone, who is Deputy Head of the taskforce, sai
SINGAPORE – Coronavirus: 2 new cases confirmed; 4 more, including private hospital doctor, discharged
SINGAPORE – Two new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) were confirmed by the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Wednesday (Feb 26) and four others have recovered and were discharged.
This brings the total number of cases here to 93, of which 62 have fully recovered.
Case 59, the private hospital doctor, was among the four discharged. The 61-year-old Singaporean was confirmed to have the virus on Feb 13 and had been warded at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases.
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SINGAPORE- Coronavirus fears not stopping Catholics from observing Ash Wednesday mass online
SINGAPORE – Public masses have been suspended across the more than 30 Catholic churches in Singapore, but it has not stopped Catholics here from observing Ash Wednesday.
They commemorated the day on Wednesday (Feb 26) by attending special online masses, with some marking their forehead with ash to observe the occasion.
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SEOUL- Desperate to stop virus’ spread, countries limit travel
SEOUL (AP) — Police manned checkpoints in quarantined towns, governments issued travel warnings and more flights were suspended yesterday as officials desperately sought to stop the inevitable spread of a new virus.
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TEHRAN- Iran raises its death toll to 19 amid 139 coronavirus cases
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (AP) — Iran’s President said Tehran has no immediate plans to quarantine cities over the new coronavirus rapidly spreading across the country, even as the Islamic Republic suffers the highest death toll outside of China with 19 killed amid 139 cases confirmed yesterday. President Hassan Rouhani went on to acknowledge that may take “one, two or three weeks” to get control of the virus in Iran, linked to most of the over 160 confirmed cases of the virus now spread across the Mideast.
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NEW YORK, USA- What has the coronavirus done to the tech industry?
NEW YORK (GZERO MEDIA) – Nicholas Thompson, editor-in-chief of WIRED, discusses technology industry news today.
In this episode of GZERO Media’s Tech In Sixty Seconds, he talks about the impacts of the coronavirus on the tech industry and explains what cloud neutrality is.
This GZERO media video is being shown here as part of a media partnership agreement with The Straits Times
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WASHINGTON, USA – Coronavirus spreads faster outside China as fears of US impact hit markets
WASHINGTON, USA – Global food conglomerate Nestle suspended all business travel until March 15.
US health authorities, managing 59 cases so far – mostly Americans repatriated from a cruise ship in Japan – have said a global pandemic is likely.
But President Donald Trump accused cable TV channels that frequently criticise him of “doing everything possible to make (the coronavirus) look as bad as possible, including panicking markets.”
Stock markets across the world have lost US$3.3 trillion (S$4.6 trillion) of value in four days of trading, as measured by the MSCI all-country index.
Wall Street reversed earlier gains on Wednesday afternoon on fears that the virus would spread across the United States, and oil prices dropped to their lowest level in over a year.
Health officials said dozens of people who had been in China were being monitored in suburbs of populous New York city.
“As of this hour, there are no confirmed cases of coronavirus in the city of New York,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a news conference, urging the federal government to tighten testing for visitors from a range of countries where the virus has been spreading.
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EUROPE
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BERLIN- Six European nations report virus cases with Italy link
BERLIN (AP) — Six European countries announced cases of COVID-19 disease in people who recently travelled from northern Italy, where the virus emerged as a fast-growing cluster last week. For Switzerland, Austria and Croatia it was the first confirmed new coronavirus cases in those countries. Germany, France and Spain, which had previously reported cases, confirmed new infections in people who were from or had visited northern Italy.
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ZURICH- Switzerland confirms its first case
ZURICH (REUTERS) – A 70-year old man tested positive for the coronavirus in the southern canton of Ticino, on the border with Italy, Swiss health authorities said on Tuesday (Feb 25), confirming its first case.
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