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Iran's deputy health minister has coronavirus

Iran's deputy health minister Iraj Harirchi has been infected with the new coronavirus.

"The coronavirus test for Mr Harirchi, the deputy health minister who was on the front lines combating the coronavirus, was positive," Alireza Vahabzadeh, a media adviser to the health minister, said in a tweet.

Harirchi coughed occasionally and appeared to be sweating during a press conference on Monday with government spokesman Ali Rabiei.

Coronavirus live updates: South Korea races to contain outbreak as virus fears slam stock markets

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Iran's Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harirchi (left) has a drink of water as he and another official speak to journalists in Tehran about the coronavirus outbreak in the Islamic Republic on February 24, 2020, a day before Harirchi was confirmed to have the virus himself.
 
“The Korea Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) notified the carrier of the employee confirmed to have been infected, an airline spokeswoman told Reuters.”

One of Korean Air's cabin crew tests positive for Covid-19

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Korean Air cabin crew worker tests positive for coronavirus, report says
Published 5 hours ago

“China's Foreign Ministry had said the U.S. hasn't given the country any substantive help in its fight against the coronavirus outbreak. They added the U.S. was contributing to the international panic surrounding the illness, Reuters reported.”

:rolleyes: ROLL EYES MOO! :rolleyes:
 
Herat said:
It's interesting. On TripAdvisor, one of the best travel forums around, there is virtually no mention of COVID-19

And if gets mentioned, it gets quickly dismissed.

Almost as if TA wants to suppress travel fears for a reason. And this is on the Cruise forum.
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Perhaps some cruise enthusiasts are flagging the posts for deletion. TripAdvisor certainly isn’t censoring it, there are 34 pages of posts if you search it.
 
Schools across the UK are sending pupils home.

Penair School in Truro this morning told parents to collect children who had been on a skiing trip to Ponte di Legno, which is near the Swiss border and well away from the towns currently under lockdown by the Italian authorities. In a message sent to parents the Truro school said: “Following an announcement at 8am this morning, regarding the coronavirus, by the health secretary and having sought guidance from Public Health England (PHE) we are required to send all children and staff home who attended the ski trip, to self-quarantine for 14 days. Please be assured this is a precautionary measure.”

Meanwhile Brine Leas Academy in Nantwich said it was temporarily closing its sixth form after teachers and students also returned from a half-term trip to Italy.

Cransley School, an independent school also in Cheshire, announced it would close for a week after some pupils reported feeling ill after a skiing trip to Bormio in Lombardy.

Other parents report being told to keep their children home from school after returning from family holidays in northern Italy over the half-term break.

Coronavirus news: Austria and Croatia report first cases as Tenerife quarantines hotel – live updates
 

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Paris-to-Milan trains will now change crew at the Italian border

Trains running from Paris to Milan will stop in the French commune of Modane on the Italian border to change crew..

Italian train crew members will board French trains in Modane and finish the journey to Milan, replacing all the French staff including ticket inspectors.

Live updates: Coronavirus cases surge in Italy, Iran and South Korea - CNN
 
Iraq bans travelers from these 7 countries because of coronavirus fears

Travelers from five other new countries were included in the ban, which already included Iran and China. The new countries are:
  • Thailand
  • South Korea
  • Japan
  • Italy
  • Singapore
The government said in a statement: "The committee decided to extend the suspension of the direct or indirect entry of foreign arrivals from China and Iran until further notice, and [also] stop the direct or indirect entry of foreign arrivals from Thailand, South Korea, Japan, Italy and Singapore."

Live updates: Coronavirus cases surge in Italy, Iran and South Korea - CNN
 
Zhang Ying, deputy director of Tianjin’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention, was asked during a news program on state broadcaster CCTV when citizens could feel safe that the outbreak was contained. “Speaking in terms of epidemiology, we have to keep observing for at least two longest incubation periods of time since the last infection cleared, and in the case of coronavirus, it is 28 days in total,” Zhang said, referring to the 14-day quarantines currently in place. “When no more new infections have been reported after 28 days, we can feel 100 percent at ease,” Zhang continued.
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Bulgaria Air confirmed that all flights to Milan have been canceled until late March.
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Italy confirmed cases in Veneto, Emilia-Romagna, Piedmont, Lazio, Tuscany, Sicily and Bolzano. Authorities said 29 patients are in intensive care.
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Dick Pound, the longest-serving member of the International Olympic Committee, estimates there’s a three-month window to decide whether the Tokyo Games can go ahead due to the spread of coronavirus. Pound told the AP that a decision could be put off until late May, two months before the Games are due to start.
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Schools in Hong Kong, shut down for weeks to prevent coronavirus transmission, will not reopen before April 20.
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The number of Filipinos infected by the coronavirus on the Diamond Princess cruise ship has jumped to 80. Two chartered flights will carry over 400 Filipino citizens on board the ship to Clark airport. They will spend two weeks in quarantine at the Athletes’ Village, where repatriates from Wuhan were also housed. There were a total of 538 Filipinos on board the ship, mostly crew members. The evacuees are expected to return to the Philippines on Tuesday evening.
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A Chinese woman who tested negative for the novel coronavirus eight times has been found to have the virus. The 56-year-old woman had been working in a hotel in Chongqing where she came into contact with an infected staff member.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...045570-5758-11ea-9000-f3cffee23036_story.html
 
MJPeony said:
From the article:

"I think there's extremely low risk of getting novel coronavirus on a cruise ship," said Dr. John Lynch, who has specialties in infectious disease and travel medicine at University of Washington School of Medicine.”

Say whaa??

My periodic reminder that not all doctors are created equal.


MOO.
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Perhaps he should be the first to board the Diamond Princess when out again sets sail!
 
Paris-to-Milan trains will now change crew at the Italian border
From CNN's Antoine Crouin in Paris
Trains running from Paris to Milan will stop in the French commune of Modane on the Italian border to change crew, French rail operator SNCF has announced, as European countries race to stop the spread of coronavirus following an outbreak in Northern Italy.

Italian train crew members will board French trains in Modane and finish the journey to Milan, replacing all the French staff including ticket inspectors.

Coronavirus cases surge in Italy, Iran and South Korea
 
Holidaymakers locked down in Spanish hotel as Italian man tests positive for coronavirus

People have been asked to remain in their rooms at the Costa Adeje Palace Hotel in Tenerife, Spain, as a male Italian guest tested positive for coronavirus in a first test Monday night.

“Following the report of a possible coronavirus case detected in a customer from Italy, staying at the H10 Costa Adeje Palace, H10 Hotels has implemented all health and operational recommendations from the health authorities to ensure the safety and wellbeing of customers and employees," a communications representative for the H10 hotel group said in a statement.

"Additionally, we are providing customers and hotel staff all the necessary care and attention so that, despite the inconveniences this situation may cause, they are taken care of in the best way possible," they added.

A spokeswoman for the Canary Island health department told CNN: "We are not calling it a quarantine, we are monitoring and undertaking health checks on all people that might have had a contact with the coronavirus patient -- that includes people from the hotel, not all of them."

"The regional government will hold a meeting this morning to evaluate the situation," she added.

Coronavirus cases surge in Italy, Iran and South Korea
 
MJPeony said:
From the article:

"I think there's extremely low risk of getting novel coronavirus on a cruise ship," said Dr. John Lynch, who has specialties in infectious disease and travel medicine at University of Washington School of Medicine.”

Say whaa??

My periodic reminder that not all doctors are created equal.


MOO.
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Perhaps he should be the first to board the Diamond Princess when it again sets sail!
margarita25 said:
Oh oh...



Oh oh...



Oh oh...

So we’ve got three new countries on the map already this morning? Austria, Croatia and Spain? (not certain if Spain was on the map already, still catching up as usual.) And there’s a sick airline worker in South Korea? I don’t think we’ve talked about airline workers so far. :eek:

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Coronavirus: Spain's Canary Islands hotel quarantined

“A tourist hotel on the Canary Island hotel of Tenerife was placed in quarantine Tuesday after an Italian doctor staying there tested positive for coronavirus, which has infected thousands worldwide.”

[...]

“Spanish news media reported that some 1,000 tourists staying at the complex are not allowed to leave.

The Canary Islands, an archipelago located some 100 kilometers (62 miles) west of the African coast, is a popular vacation destination that attracts many northern Europeans all-year-around.”

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“It’s Spain’s third case of COVID-19 and the second in the islands that lie some 100 kilometres (62 miles) west of the African coast. A German tourist was quarantined earlier this month in the island of La Gomera and a British citizen in the Mediterranean’s Balearic Islands. Both were released after recovering and showing no further symptoms of the illness.”
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Hmmmm..... just thinking that this wouldn’t be my definition of
“under control”

Perhaps the WHO should consider adding a “PANDEMIC” category!!??


edited for autocorrect spelling
grrrr....
 
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