PHOTOS-COVID19 PANDEMIC ? – 12.01.2019 -Day 102: WHO- Pandemic risk now ’very real’ -Global COVID-19 infections passed the 100,000-mark.
.A man wears protective clothing as a preventive measure against the coronavirus as he walks outside the Peking University People’s Hospital in Beijing, on Feb 21, 2020.PHOTO: AFP
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Pandemic risk now ’very real’
“Pandemic doesn’t mean that we say it is fine to live with it… we can contain it,” he said. “No white flag. We don’t give up.”The WHO defines a pandemic as a situation in which “the whole world’s population would likely be exposed to this infection and potentially a proportion of them fall sick,” Ryan has said.
“Pandemic” is not an official WHO term, and it does not trigger any specific actions. WHO has already put out its highest level of alert—saying the world is at “high risk.
Gatherings canceled.
Venues shuttered.
Schools out.
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COVID 19 EPICENTER:
WUHAN CITY, HUBEI PROVINCE, CHINA
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BEIJING- China’s new coronavirus cases rise on infections from abroad; 22 new deaths
BEIJING (REUTERS) – China reported an uptick in new confirmed cases of coronavirus infections, reversing four straight days of declines, driven by infected individuals arriving from abroad.
Mainland China had 24 new confirmed cases on Tuesday (March 10), the National Health Commission said on Wednesday, up from 19 new cases a day earlier.
Of the new infections, 10 were imported cases, bringing the overall cases from abroad to 79.
The Chinese capital of Beijing on Tuesday saw six new cases involving individuals who travelled from Italy and the United States, while Shanghai had two imported infections, Shandong province one and Gansu province one.
As China’s efforts to control the spread of the pathogen at home start to payoff, Beijing is turning its focus on overseas cases as the coronavirus expands its footprint across the globe.
New infections in central Hubei province, the epicentre of the outbreak, continued to stabilise, with new cases declining for the sixth day.
In Wuhan, the provincial capital, just 13 new infections were reported on Tuesday, or all of the new cases in Hubei.
President Xi Jinping on Tuesday made his first visit to Wuhan since the coronavirus outbreak forced a lockdown of the city of 11 million people.
A few cities in Hubei have started to loosen restrictions on movement of people and goods.
Hunan province and the municipality of Chongqing lowered their emergency response level as domestic infections eased across the country.
So far, 24 municipalities, regions and provinces have cut their emergency response level from the highest tier previously.
The total number of confirmed cases in mainland China so far stood at 80,778 as of Tuesday.
The death toll in mainland China had reached 3,158 as of the end of Tuesday, up by 22 from the previous day.
The central province of Hubei accounted for all of the new deaths, including 19 fatalities in the provincial capital of Wuhan.
XI JINPING IN WUHAN; HUBEI TO LET SOME PEOPLE TRAVEL
Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Wuhan, the city that has been the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, earlier today in a signal that officials feel that the worst could be over in the battle against the virus.
This was Xi’s first visit to Hubei’s capital. Alongside, officials in Hubei province were reportedly considering allowing people living in medium or low-risk areas in the province to start travelling. This might offer much needed respite to the 56 million people who had been ordered to stay indoors since the outbreak in January.
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BRUNEI- Five found positive in preliminary tests
Brunei Darussalam has recorded five more presumptive cases of the highly contagious COVID-19 infection. The new presumptive cases include a 61-year-old man and his 30-year-old son.
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BRUNEI- Stop spreading rumours, panic buying: Minister
Panic buying at a local departmental store. PHOTO: AZLAN OTHMAN
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Minister of Health Dato Seri Setia Dr Haji Mohd Isham bin Haji Jaafar urged the public not to spread rumours and fake news and requested to refrain from panic buying.
The minister said, “Spreading rumours will not help us at all. It is more helpful to pray for the recovery of the patients rather than spreading fake news.”
READ MORE: https://borneobulletin.com.bn/stop-spreading-rumours-panic-buying-minister/
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JAKARTA- Indonesia arrests six over coronavirus Internet hoaxes
JAKARTA (AFP) – Six Indonesians have been arrested for allegedly spreading misinformation online about the deadly coronavirus, police said yesterday, as the Southeast Asian nation’s confirmed infection cases jumped.
A woman in Indonesia’s second-biggest city Surabaya was arrested on Monday for spreading inaccurate claims on Facebook a patient was being treated for the virus in the city, police said.
Five others were also detained for spreading false information on social media, including claims a Muslim woman flying to Saudi Arabia for a religious pilgrimage had died suddenly from the virus at Jakarta’s international airport. All six suspects are accused of violating laws banning the spread of misinformation, which carries as much as six years in prison.
“It should serve as a lesson for other people not to spread hoaxes about coronavirus in Indonesia,” Senior Communications Ministry Official Semuel Abrijani Pangerapan said.
READ MORE: https://borneobulletin.com.bn/indonesia-arrests-six-over-coronavirus-internet-hoaxes/
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MANILA- Localized lockdown eyed
But only in heavily virus-infected areas as Duterte rejects Metrowide isolation
Health Secretary Francisco Duque III told lawmakers of the selective lockdown during a House hearing Tuesday as number of confirmed cases reached 33 after nine more patients tested positive.“Based on our objective criteria, we will see a possible lockdown. If that happens, it will be localized. It will not be the entire Metro Manila,” he said.“A lockdown scenario is possible if there is proof of community-based transmission. So far, we do not see that yet,” Duque added./ by Macon Ramos-Araneta and Rio N. Araja
READ MORE: https://manilastandard.net/news/top-stories/319377/localized-lockdown-eyed.html
* The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Tuesday confirmed that a fourth Filipino national tested positive for COVID-19 in Hong Kong.
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Citing information from the Philippine Consulate General in Hong Kong, the agency said the new patient was asymptomatic. The first Filipino national who contracted the disease was discharged from the hospital on March 6, while the second and third cases are still confined in the hospital, which brings back to three the total number of COVID-19-positive Filipinos in the special administrative region.
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SINGAPORE- 10 new Covid-19 cases, CNY dinner at Safra Jurong biggest cluster; short-term visitors must now pay for treatment
SINGAPORE – Tourists and other short-term-visit pass holders in Singapore have had to pay for Covid-19 treatment since March 7, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Monday (March 9).
It cited the rising numbers of infections globally and an expected rise in confirmed cases, saying Singapore will “need to prioritise resources at our public hospitals”.
Singapore will still waive testing fees for these short-term visit pass holders, but they will have to pay for treatment if they are warded. The Government will continue to pay for Singapore residents and long-term pass holders – such as work, student’s and dependant’s passes – who are admitted to public hospitals for treatment, an MOH spokesman said.
The ministry also confirmed 10 new patients on Monday, of whom six are linked to the Joy Garden private dinner function at Safra Jurong on Feb 15. One is linked to the Life Church and Missions Singapore, while the remaining three are imported.
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READ MORE: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/10-new-covid-19-cases-cny-dinner-at-safra-jurong-biggest-cluster-short-term-visitors-must
Singapore has a total of 160 coronavirus cases, of whom 93 have been discharged. Ten remain in critical condition, while the rest are stable or improving.
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SINGAPORE- Costa Fortuna cruise ship docks in S’pore
SINGAPORE (CNA) – The cruise liner turned away from ports in Malaysia and Thailand due to COVID-19 concerns docked in Singapore yesterday, with some passengers immediately taken to Changi Airport by bus. The Costa Fortuna berthed at the Marina Bay Cruise Centre as part of a scheduled call, after the ship was barred from stopping in Penang and Phuket.
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SINGAPORE- All 1,631 passengers cleared to leave Costa Fortuna in 14 hours
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Foreigners taken to airport or hotels and will leave Republic within next 2 days
All passengers have disembarked from a cruise ship that docked in Singapore yesterday morning after being rejected at several ports over fears about the coronavirus.
It took about 14 hours – from 8.40am to around 11pm – for all 1,631 passengers on board to leave the Costa Fortuna.
All foreign passengers were taken directly to the airport or their hotels by midnight, said the Health Ministry (MOH), Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore and Singapore Tourism Board in a joint statement.
They added that all foreign passengers will depart from Singapore within the next two days.
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CANBERRA- Australia’s coronavirus fight to lean on pop-up clinics
CANBERRA (BLOOMBERG) – Australia will open as many as 100 pop-up respiratory clinics as part of a A$2.4 billion (S$2.17 billion) health package to combat coronavirus as new cases in the nation rise.
The clinics, to be staffed by doctors and nurses, will be able to cater for as many as 75 patients a day over six months, Prime Minister Scott Morrison told reporters in Canberra on Wednesday (March 11).
READ MORE: https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australia-s-coronavirus-fight-to-lean-on-pop-up-clinics
The government on Wednesday said it would bar foreign nationals who have been in Italy in the past 14 days from entering Australia, in line with previously-announced measures for China, Iran and South Korea.
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NEW YORK, USA- Coronavirus in New York: Life takes an eerie turn in New Rochelle ‘containment area’
NEW ROCHELLE (NYTIMES) – Surgical masks at the bus stop. Residents stocking up on toilet paper and medical supplies. A purple ribbon around a tree outside a virus-besieged synagogue.
The sights and rituals of life in this New York City suburb, which had already been altered, took an eerie turn on Tuesday (March 10), as New York’s governor announced a drastic new step to try to control the spread of the coronavirus in one of the largest clusters in the United States.
State officials created a 1-mile radius zone in New Rochelle, in Westchester County, where schools and other buildings will be forced to close and the National Guard will be deployed.
READ MORE: https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/coronavirus-new-york-deploys-national-guard-to-fight-bug
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Mr Matt Phillips, who lives not far from the synagogue with his wife and two teenage children, said he hoped that the measures would help, but he also expressed a fear that New Rochelle would be living with coronavirus for a while.
“I think the hope is to slow it down,” Mr Phillips, 50, said. “But I’m not under any illusion that it will be gone in two weeks.”
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MILAN- Virus woes shift from China to Italy as borders slam shut
BEIJING (AP) — Starkly illustrating the global east-to-west spread of the new coronavirus, Italy began an extraordinary, sweeping nationwide travel ban yesterday while in China, the diminishing threat prompted the Chinese President to visit the epicentre.
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MADRID- Spain steps up battle plan against bug to ‘avoid Italian
Tourists wear protective face masks as they take part in an audio tour of the Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona, Spain.PHOTO: BLOOMBERG
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MADRID (REUTERS) – Spain shut down schools in several regions, suspended flights from Italy and closed the lower house of parliament for at least a week after a lawmaker tested positive for the coronavirus, in the hope of stemming a growing outbreak.
The government recommended avoiding travel both within and outside Spain and banned indoor gatherings of more than 1,000 people in the regions most affected by the virus – Madrid, the Rioja wine-growing region and two areas in the northern Basque Country.
“We are working on avoiding the Italian scenario,” Health Minister Salvador Illa told reporters.
READ MORE: https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/spain-to-shut-schools-in-madrid-as-coronavirus-cases-double
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LONDON, UK- British junior health minister Nadine Dorries tests positive for coronavirus, had meeting with PM Johnson
LONDON (AFP, REUTERS) – British MP Nadine Dorries, a minister in the health department, has tested positive for coronavirus, she said in a statement on Tuesday (March 10).
“I can confirm I have tested positive for coronavirus… and have been self-isolating at home,” said the Conservative MP.
According to the Times of London, Dorries met hundreds of people in Parliament in the past week and attended a reception with Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
READ MORE: https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/british-junior-health-minister-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-had-meeting-with-pm
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