The new coronavirus started in Wuhan China and has now spread all over the world making it a pandemic. Like a coronavirus that mutates, so did its name. It started as the Wuhan pneumonia, Wuhan flu, 2019-novel coronavirus that is shortened to 2019-nCoV to Covid-19 according to the World Health Organization.
In the scientific community, the Coronavirus Study Group (CSG) of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses calls it SARS-CoV-2. SARS-CoV for Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus.
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As of o2/22/2020 7:42 pm EST
Covid-19 Pandemic Headlines
Chinese scientists isolate coronavirus strains in urine – Washington Post
A research team led by renowned Chinese pulmonologist Zhong Nanshan had isolated live coronavirus strains in urine samples from infected patients, Zhao Jincun, a respiratory expert at the State Key Laboratory, told reporters in Guangdong on Saturday.
The team of scientists had previously said the virus, in addition to being carried in respiratory droplets, appeared to be transmissible through fecal matter, underscoring the need to practice good hand washing as a preventive measure.
Zhao did not directly say that the virus could be transmitted through urine, simply noting that the strains had been isolated and that this had implications for public health control.
Scary development in virus spread that could lead to many more infections – DT
A man has begun developing coronavirus symptoms a whopping 27 days after coming into contact with an infected person, causing authorities to fear for the worst.
A 70-year-old man in China’s Hubei Province was infected with coronavirus but did not show symptoms until nearly four weeks later, the Chinese government revealed yesterday.
This could prove a devastating blow to the world if the virus’s incubation period is longer than the presumed 14 days.
Japan says 23 passengers mistakenly left virus ship before testing – SBS
Japans’s Health Minister has apologised after 23 passengers were allowed to leave the Diamond Princess cruise ship without undergoing all the required tests for coronavirus.
Iran now says 6th person dead of new virus – AP
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian officials Saturday reported a sixth death from the new virus that emerged in China.
The governor of Markazi province told the official IRNA news agency that tests of a patient who recently died in the central city of Arak were positive for the virus.
Ali Aghazadeh said the person was also suffering from a heart problem.
Earlier on Saturday, health authorities reported a fifth death from the coronavirus and said the fatality was among 10 new confirmed cases in Iran.
Italy towns close down amid virus case clusters, 2 deaths – AP
CODOGNO, Italy (AP) — A dozen towns in northern Italy effectively went into lockdown Saturday after the deaths of two people infected with the new virus from China and a growing cluster of cases with no direct links to the origin of the outbreak abroad.
The secondary contagions prompted authorities in some Lombardy and Veneto towns to close schools, businesses and restaurants and to cancel sporting events and Masses. The mayor of Milan, Italy’s business capital and the regional capital of Lombardy, shuttered public offices.
North China city of Harbin puts four districts on lockdown in bid to contain coronavirus – SCMP
Authorities in one of China’s most northerly cities, which also serves as a major regional transport and trading hub, have placed four districts under total lockdown in a bid to contain the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus.The municipal government in Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang province, which borders both Russia and North Korea, said that all residents of Daoli, Daowai, Nangang and Xiangfang had been placed in temporary isolation and that all access points into and out of the districts – all of which are in downtown areas – had been closed.
Wuhan was also a transport and trading hub. It is one of the major factors that allowed the coronavirus to spread worldwide.
This is possibly why Russia, on Feb 17, decided to ban Chinese citizens from entering. Russia has since changed that to allow Chinese with business visas to enter. Businessmen don’t get the Covid-19 now?
“Wuhan Pneumonia” Travel Alert Is Not Enough Chen Shizhong: Does Not Exclude Japan-South Korea Border Control – LTN
Commander Chen Shizhong of the China ’s Central Epidemic Epidemic Command Center said that considering Taiwan ’s close ties with Japan and South Korea and the country ’s frequent travel to the country, the two countries will be advised to raise the tourist epidemic situation to a second-level warning from now on. In the future, border control will not be ruled out in response to the development of the epidemic situation.
“Border control” refers to measures taken by countries or regions to control or restrict traffic, both to passengers and to goods. At present, China’s banning Chinese, Hong Kong and Macao tourists from entering Taiwan is a strict practice of border control.
New virus A senior healthcare facility employee in Tokyo is hospitalized due to severe infection – NHK
A false-negative test, in the beginning, allowed this man to work in the nursing home and travel to Indonesia.
Quite interesting that Indonesia, one of the most populous nation on the planet, has no Covid-19 cases yet. No testing and false-negative testing equals no data.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced on March 22 that it has been confirmed that a male employee in his 60s working for a geriatric health facility in Tokyo has been infected with the new coronavirus.
After spending 14 days at home, he traveled to Indonesia with his family from the 15th.
He has been hospitalized at a medical facility in Tokyo since he returned 19 days ago, and is severely dyspnea and severely ill.
“Wuhan Pneumonia” epidemic prevention is combat! 32 Chemical Soldiers Disinfected Through The Night – LTN
Open the link with Chrome and translate it. Watch how they disinfect the bags. But what about their contents?
[Reporter Luo Tianbin / Taipei report] 19 Diamond Princess cruise passengers returned to Taoyuan Airport on a China Airlines chartered plane last night. The National Army cooperated with the government ’s epidemic prevention measures and sent a total of 32 chemical soldiers to the airport for disinfection operations to ensure returning passengers to Taiwan.
The lungs: how they work, what the coronavirus does to them, and the effects of smoking and asthma – SCMP
The first two patients to die from the virus in China were healthy adults, but they were long-time smokers. Dr Raymond Tso, a US-trained Hong Kong specialist in respiratory medicine, stresses that smoking is the single worst thing we can do for our lungs.
“Both cigarette smoking and heat-not-burn e-cigarettes can cause great damage to the lung tissue ,” Tso says.
3 Reasons Why Smokers Have Worse Covid-19 Outcomes
California tells 7K people to stay home because of new virus – AP
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California health officials said Friday that 7,600 people who returned to the state after visiting China during the outbreak of the new virus have been asked to quarantine themselves at home this month as health officials try to stop the spread of the virus.
The department said that number excludes those who visited China’s Hubei province, where the disease known as COVID-19 originated. Americans who spent time there and in Hubei’s provincial capital of Wuhan have been flown home on U.S.-chartered flights and quarantined on military bases.
Man infected with coronavirus but did not show symptoms until 27 days later, says Hubei government – The Straits Times
SHANGHAI (REUTERS) – A 70-year-old man in China’s Hubei province was infected with coronavirus but did not show symptoms until 27 days later, the local government said on Saturday (Feb 22), meaning the virus’ incubation period could be much longer than the presumed 14 days.
A longer incubation period could complicate efforts to contain spread of the epidemic that has so far killed more than 2,000 people and spread outside China.
Coronavirus: China brings in seven cruise ships to house Wuhan medical workers – The Straits Times
What can possibly go wrong? The plan is spectacularly mind-boggling.
BEIJING (REUTERS) – China is bringing in seven cruise ships to house medical workers in Wuhan, state media said on Saturday (Feb 22), at a time when such ships are under scrutiny after hundreds of passengers on the Diamond Princess liner in Japan contracted the coronavirus.
Coronavirus: US warns against cruise ship travel in Asia – The Straits Times
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Americans should avoid travelling by cruise liner within Asia because the vessels act as amplifiers of the novel coronavirus, a senior US official said on Friday (Feb 21), adding that future evacuations of ship passengers were not guaranteed.
Japan’s new virus cases rise again – Daily Telegraph
Japanese government officials have confirmed 14 new cases of the coronavirus on Saturday as public health authorities struggle to contain a global epidemic.
Among the cases was a junior high school teacher in Chiba prefecture east of Tokyo, who went to work even though she had symptoms, raising fears the virus could spread among her students and co-workers.
COVID-19: 100 passengers in close contact with infected leave Diamond Princess cruise ship – CNA
TOKYO: About 100 passengers who were in close contact with infected people on board began disembarking from the coronavirus-stricken Diamond Princess cruise ship on Saturday (Feb 22), local media said.
They will be quarantined for two weeks near Tokyo, officials said.
With the disembarkation, a 14-day quarantine is expected to start for more than 1,000 crew still on board as many of them did not undergo quarantine because they were needed to keep the ship running.
They were preparing food and delivering meals to cabins, leading some critics to charge they were inadvertently spreading the virus throughout the ship, which has seen more than 600 cases of the potentially deadly COVID-19 disease.
Iran reports another death, 10 new cases of new coronavirus – AP
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian health authorities on Saturday reported a fifth death from the new virus that emerged in China, and said the fatality was from among 10 new confirmed cases of the virus in Iran.
So far, 28 cases have been confirmed in Iran, including the five who died.
Coronavirus: US facing ‘tremendous public health threat’ as imported infections rise; World Health Organisation set to launch Wuhan probe – SCMP
Nancy Messonnier, the Centres for Disease Control’s senior official, told a media briefing that the number of infections in the US now stands at 34. The figure includes 13 infections classified as US cases and 21 “repatriated cases”.
“Let me be clear that we are not seeing community spread in the United States yet, but it is very possible, even likely, that it may eventually happen,” said Messonnier, director of the CDC’s National Centre for Immunisation and Respiratory Diseases.
New virus has infected nearly 78,000 people globally – AP
‘Worse than an aeroplane’: how being confined to a cruise ship fuelled the coronavirus spread – SCMP
“A cruise ship is an almost ideal environment to enhance the transmission of a virus, whether norovirus, coronavirus, or flu, from person to person,” said William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University.
On planes, air is cycled through the cabin, with a portion of it coming from outside. The air from outside would be naturally sterile, given the high altitude. Air filters used in planes are of the same quality as those in operating rooms.
Coronavirus: ‘Panic’ in South Korea as 229 new cases reported, most linked to Daegu church – SCMP
South Korea on Saturday reported an eight-fold jump in viral infections in four days to 433, most of them linked to a church and a hospital in and around the fourth-largest city where health workers scrambled to screen more than 9,000 worshippers.
Peng Yinhua: Wuhan doctor dies of coronavirus before wedding – Xinhua
Peng, a 29-year-old doctor at the First People’s Hospital of Jiangxia District, was the latest medical worker, and among the youngest, who died from the virus on Thursday night, leaving behind his pregnant wife and a wedding yet to be held.
The respiratory doctor became infected while working to combat the novel coronavirus at the hospital. He was hospitalized on Jan. 25 and died at Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital despite all-out efforts to save his life.
Health officials worry as untraceable virus clusters emerge – AP
In South Korea, Singapore and Iran, clusters of infections are leading to a jump in cases of the new viral illness outside China. But it’s not the numbers that are worrying experts: It’s that increasingly they can’t trace where the clusters started.
Second death in Italy from COVID-19: Report – CNA
ROME: A second person in Italy has died from complications from the new coronavirus, Italian news agency ANSA said on Saturday (Feb 22).
The death of a woman in the northern region of Lombardy follows that of a 78-year-old man who died on Friday. The victim was a female resident in Milan’s Lombardy region, ANSA said.
There are 30 cases reported so far as the outbreak spreads in the north of the country.
The new wave of cases in Italy’s northern regions have triggered shut-downs of shops, offices and community centres.
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