Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Emergency #5

[dixiegirl1035]

IMO
RSBM It is a very diplomatic situation in respect to the Japanese government. They have to be shown to trust that the situation on the cruise is in good hands and then they need reliable evidence that the situation isn't good. RSBM

Dear China,



Sincerely,

Dixie

p.s. RBBM and https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situation-reports/20200218-sitrep-29-covid-19.pdf?sfvrsn=6262de9e_2 which doesn't even show the last 2 days worth of 88 and 78 infections from the Princess

 

[RobinCAL]

Okay, I didn't say there wasn't any...I was saying then the evidence needs to come forward which obviously there is. But they needed that to happen first....and then everything else I mentioned needed to happed. I was describing the situation and the tenses were probably wrong

I was listing what needed to happen before the evacuation of UK citizens


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[Tadpole12]

Wrt The Guardian

Google 'Is the guardian a tabloid or a broadsheet?'

"Both. The Guardian and The Observer now use the tabloid format, having done so since January 2018. Despite these format changess, these newspapers are all still considered 'broadsheets'."

 

[Tadpole12]

I found a notice on my GP surgery's site that goes to a government webpage about the virus, and on this page it describes the steps that a GP surgery should take if a suspected case enters the building, and it includes the cleaning protocols for any rooms that the suspected case was inside.

COVID-19: interim guidance for primary care

So I believe that the hotel would be cleaned according to those guidelines before being used as a regular hotel again. After that level of cleaning, it would probably be one of the cleanest hotel rooms in the country....until people have been in it again lol

Ty for informative link

 

[JerseyGirl]

China expels Wall Street Journal reporters over ‘racist’ headline

China has ordered three reporters from American newspaper the Wall Street Journal to leave the country, over what Beijing deemed a racist headline.

The expulsion came as Beijing slammed Washington’s decision to tighten rules on Chinese state media organisations in the United States, calling the move “unreasonable and unacceptable”, AFP reports.

A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said the Journal op-ed - titled “China is the Real Sick Man of Asia” - had a “racially discriminatory” and “sensational” headline, and slammed the newspaper for not issuing an official apology.

The Journal reported that deputy bureau chief Josh Chin and reporter Chao Deng, both US nationals, as well as reporter Philip Wen, an Australian, had been ordered to leave the country in five days.

...

The phrase “sick man of Asia” originally referred to China in the late 19th and early 20th century, when it was exploited by foreign powers during a period sometimes called the country’s “century of humiliation”.

The 3 February piece “slandered the efforts of the Chinese government and the Chinese people to fight the epidemic.”

“The editors of the Wall Street Journal have nailed themselves to the pillar of shame,” wrote the nationalistic Global Times in an op-ed on Tuesday before the reporters were expelled.

The WSJ’s remarks “sound like gloating, and they disgust Chinese people”, it said.

The expulsions come a day after the United States angered China for classifying five state media outlets, including Xinhua news agency and the China Global Television Network, as foreign missions, with State Department officials saying they were part of Beijing’s growing “propaganda” apparatus.

Voicing China’s “strong dissatisfaction ... We reserve the right to respond further to this matter.”

Coronavirus: first two patients confirmed in Iran as cruise ship cases rise to 621 – live updates

 

[JerseyGirl]

First coronavirus cases confirmed in Iran

Iranian authorities have confirmed two cases of coronavirus, the first in the country.

Citing the semi-official Isna news agency, the report states there was also an unspecified number of other suspected cases and that those individuals have been quarantined.

Their are currently no details on the nationality of the two people infected by the virus or the state of their health.

Isna quoted an official in the country’s health ministry, Kiyanoush Jahanpour, as saying two confirmed cases were detected in the central province of Qom.

Subsequent tests were in progress and the results of these tests will be released to the public, once they are finalised, Jahanpour said

Coronavirus: first two patients confirmed in Iran as cruise ship cases rise to 621 – live updates

 

[JerseyGirl]

A video by Prof Kentaro Iwata, a specialist in infectious diseases at Kobe University Hospital, has been circulated widely on social media.

As the quarantine of the Diamond Princess cruise ship ends today, questions continue to swirl over how the virus spread so readily on the ship.

A video by Prof Kentaro Iwata, a specialist in infectious diseases at Kobe University Hospital, has been circulated widely on social media.

He says the cruise ship was completely inadequate in terms of infection control, with no distinction between the green zone (which is free of infection) and the red zone (which is potentially contaminated by the virus).

“It was completely chaotic. I was so scared of getting Covid-19, because there was no way to tell where the virus is,” he said. He said there was no professional infection control person in charge on the ship and the bureaucrats in control were violating all infection control principles.

He said he met a health worker who had completely given up wearing protection because they said they had already been infected with the coronavirus.

Speaking on Radio 4’s Today programme, Iwata said:

I felt much safer when I was in Africa [during the Ebola crisis] because you know where the virus exists and you know where the patient is. But inside the Diamond Princess you have no idea where the virus is.”

Coronavirus: first two patients confirmed in Iran as cruise ship cases rise to 621 – live updates

I later read that he refused to go home to his family after visiting the ship and has decided to self-quarantine for 14 days after visiting the ship.

 

[IceIce9]

I said from the time it was announced that 30 passengers on Diamond Princess had the virus that it would spread like wildfire in a cruise ship environment.

Coming soon to a theater near you, a disaster movie about Diamond Princess.

Coronavirus: first two patients confirmed in Iran as cruise ship cases rise to 621 – live updates

 

[JerseyGirl]

The last of the Australians who were in quarantine on Christmas Island have left and been declared free of coronavirus, the prime minister, Scott Morrison, has said.

More than 200 Australians spent two weeks in quarantine on the remote island after being evacuated from Wuhan in China.

170 Australians on the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan will be flown home tomorrow, and they will also be subject to two weeks in quarantine on arrival.

Coronavirus: first two patients confirmed in Iran as cruise ship cases rise to 621 – live updates

 

[Tadpole12]

Wrt to Mr Abel, his son mentioned that his dad had been vomiting,
Steve said "he beleived it was due to "shock" rather than a symptom of the disese." (rather than purging?)

Mr Abel's blood sugar readings might have changed significantly since quarantine has begun.

ETA Eww 621

 

[Amonet]

Too late now, US let 14 positive patients from Diamond Princess into the country.

That was under controlled conditions which significantly reduces the risk.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Summary of global cases

The Covid-19 virus have now infected more than 75,000 people globally. Here’s a summary of the latest figures reported by each government’s health authority, as of Wednesday in Beijing:

Mainland China: 2,004 deaths among 74,185 cases, mostly in Hubei province
Hong Kong: 63 cases, 2 deaths
Macao: 10
Japan: 693 cases, including 621 from a cruise ship docked in Yokohama, 1 death
Singapore: 81
South Korea: 51
Thailand: 35
Malaysia: 22
Taiwan: 22 cases, 1 death
Vietnam: 16
Germany: 16
United States: 15 cases; separately, 1 US citizen died in China
Australia: 14
France: 12 cases, 1 death
United Kingdom: 9
United Arab Emirates: 9
Canada: 8
Philippines: 3 cases, 1 death
India: 3
Italy: 3
Russia: 2
Spain: 2
Iran: 2
Belgium: 1
Nepal: 1
Sri Lanka: 1
Sweden: 1
Cambodia: 1
Finland: 1
Egypt: 1

Coronavirus: first two patients confirmed in Iran as cruise ship cases rise to 621 – live updates

 

[Amonet]

Wrt The Guardian

Google 'Is the guardian a tabloid or a broadsheet?'

"Both. The Guardian and The Observer now use the tabloid format, having done so since January 2018. Despite these format changess, these newspapers are all still considered 'broadsheets'."

I believe on this forum The Guardian is an acceptable MSM source to use for links/quotes.

 

[Tadpole12]

Any news on Chen Q. I wonder...
Catching up in the thread, so there may be an update in these pages. If not, marking to google.

They, Chen Qiushi and Fang Bin,
should reappear after the approx 14 day quarantine period? Right?
Unless they have succumb to the disease?

ETA,
Wuhan

Nothing of the two on bilibili, but some of UK school teacher Ben's videos are up.

Also ty JG ,
maybe 6 week recovery time for the citizen journalists would better suit their situation

 

[jjenny]

That was under controlled conditions which significantly reduces the risk.

Is plastic sheet effective in preventing the spread of the virus?

 

[dixiegirl1035]

LIVE -
Coronavirus outbreak: European health officials discuss response to the virus

The head of the Stockholm-based European Centre for Disease Control, Andrea Ammon, and the head of the Swedish health agency Johan Carlson, holds a news conference on the spread of the coronavirus and what steps are being taken in Europe to stop it from spreading.

 

[IceIce9]

That was under controlled conditions which significantly reduces the risk.

I wouldn’t want to be one of the other passengers on the plane, with 14 coronavirus victims separated only by a plastic curtain.

 

[JerseyGirl]

They, Chen Qiushi and Fang Bin,
should reappear after the approx 14 day quarantine period? Right?
Unless they have succumb to the disease?

Earlier articles:

Two Chinese citizen journalists who disappeared last week after covering the coronavirus in Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak in Hubei province, remain missing.

China expels reporters for article it deemed racist

Fang Bin, a local clothing salesman, has been missing for almost two weeks after being arrested for posting videos showing piles of corpses of people who died from the highly contagious coronavirus earlier this year.

His disappearance prompted a call on social media to support the whistleblower who together with Chen Qiushi, a former human rights lawyer, showed a very different picture to the polished image of control issued by the Chinese government. Quishi too has gone missing.

The Chinese government quickly set its propaganda machine into motion and portrayed the outbreak as a form of patriotism, sharing upbeat videos of medical staff dancing.

The Chinese police interrogated Bin after he posted the first video and warned him not to publish anything else. But he continued to do so and barricaded himself in his apartment. Eventually, Chinese firefighters broke down his front door and he was arrested by the police.

His videos and posts were taken down from Chinese social media but are still available on YouTube and Facebook.

Just days before he was taken into custody, Fang posted a video saying that the only reason authorities have not broken down his door is the fact that his videos had attracted too much attention.

He told his followers he would post a video every morning to show he was safe. No video has been posted for a week.

According to Reporters Without Borders, China has the highest number of citizen journalists detained last year – 39. This number does not include Fang.

Chinese citizen journalist who shot viral video of coronavirus corpses ‘missing’

another article:

Missing citizen journalists highlight coronavirus reporting risks

 

[IceIce9]

That was under controlled conditions which significantly reduces the risk.

Would you want to be a healthy passenger on that plane, with 14 infected coronavirus victims separated by a plastic sheet? I know I wouldn’t.

 

[JerseyGirl]

China expels Wall Street Journal reporters over ‘racist’ headline

China has ordered three reporters from American newspaper the Wall Street Journal to leave the country, over what Beijing deemed a racist headline.

The expulsion came as Beijing slammed Washington’s decision to tighten rules on Chinese state media organisations in the United States, calling the move “unreasonable and unacceptable”, AFP reports.

A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said the Journal op-ed - titled “China is the Real Sick Man of Asia” - had a “racially discriminatory” and “sensational” headline, and slammed the newspaper for not issuing an official apology.

The Journal reported that deputy bureau chief Josh Chin and reporter Chao Deng, both US nationals, as well as reporter Philip Wen, an Australian, had been ordered to leave the country in five days.

...

The phrase “sick man of Asia” originally referred to China in the late 19th and early 20th century, when it was exploited by foreign powers during a period sometimes called the country’s “century of humiliation”.

The 3 February piece “slandered the efforts of the Chinese government and the Chinese people to fight the epidemic.”

“The editors of the Wall Street Journal have nailed themselves to the pillar of shame,” wrote the nationalistic Global Times in an op-ed on Tuesday before the reporters were expelled.

The WSJ’s remarks “sound like gloating, and they disgust Chinese people”, it said.

The expulsions come a day after the United States angered China for classifying five state media outlets, including Xinhua news agency and the China Global Television Network, as foreign missions, with State Department officials saying they were part of Beijing’s growing “propaganda” apparatus.

Voicing China’s “strong dissatisfaction ... We reserve the right to respond further to this matter.”

Coronavirus: first two patients confirmed in Iran as cruise ship cases rise to 621 – live updates

The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) — a group of journalists based in China — expressed "deep concern and strong condemnation" over the expulsion.

The group said China's move "is an extreme and obvious attempt by the Chinese authorities to intimidate foreign news organizations by taking retribution against their China-based correspondents."

"FCCC member correspondents and their colleagues in China are suffering from an increasing frequency of harassment, surveillance and intimidation from authorities," said the statement.
"The expulsion of these three WSJ reporters is only the latest, and most alarming, measure authorities have taken."

China has not expelled a foreign correspondent since 1998.

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