Following the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak - News and Discussion
Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2020 8:28 pm
CEO News edit (30/03/20): This thread, which has reported on the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak in China since early January 2020, well before the pandemic was declared, has drifted off topic from Cambodia, and so it has been moved to the Rest of the World forum to better reflect the content.
Meanwhile, please refrain from posting general coronavirus news or speculation on the threads dealing specically with information on the coronavirus in Cambodia.
- Don't panic, only 41 people in the PRC have been affected so far; however, health officials will be monitoring the situation closely in countries such as Cambodia, where there is a large immigrant population from mainland China, many of whom will be returning to their country for the Chinese New Year holiday, before returning to work in Cambodia.
First death from China mystery illness outbreak
Man dies in outbreak that has infected 41 people as early tests point to new type of the coronavirus responsible for Sars epidemic
Reuters in Shanghai
Sat 11 Jan 2020 05.24 GMT
A 61-year-old man has died from pneumonia in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in an outbreak of a yet to be identified virus while seven others are in critical condition, Wuhan health authorities say.
In total 41 people have been diagnosed with the pathogen, which preliminary lab tests cited by Chinese state media earlier this week pointed to a new type of coronavirus, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission said on Saturday in a statement on its website.
Two of them have been discharged from hospital and the rest are in stable condition, while 739 people deemed to have been in close contact with the patients have been cleared, it said.
The man, the first victim of the outbreak that began in December, was a regular buyer at the seafood market and had been previously diagnosed with abdominal tumours and chronic liver disease, the health authority said. Treatments did not improve his symptoms after he was admitted to hospital and he died on the evening of 9 January when his heart failed.
No new cases had been detected since 3 January, the commission added.
The Wuhan health authority also said the patients were mainly vendors and buyers at a seafood market in the city, and that to date no medical staff had been infected, nor had clear evidence of human-to-human transmission been found.
The World Health Organisation said on Thursday that a newly emerging member of the family of viruses that caused the deadly outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (Mers) could be the cause of the present outbreak.
Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that can cause infections ranging from the common cold to Sars. Some of the virus types cause less serious disease, while some like the one that causes Mers are far more severe.
The outbreak comes ahead of the lunar new year holidays in late January, when many of China’s 1.4 billion people will be travelling to their home towns or abroad. The Chinese government expects passengers to make 440m trips via rail and another 79m trips via airplanes.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... irst-death
Meanwhile, please refrain from posting general coronavirus news or speculation on the threads dealing specically with information on the coronavirus in Cambodia.
- Don't panic, only 41 people in the PRC have been affected so far; however, health officials will be monitoring the situation closely in countries such as Cambodia, where there is a large immigrant population from mainland China, many of whom will be returning to their country for the Chinese New Year holiday, before returning to work in Cambodia.
First death from China mystery illness outbreak
Man dies in outbreak that has infected 41 people as early tests point to new type of the coronavirus responsible for Sars epidemic
Reuters in Shanghai
Sat 11 Jan 2020 05.24 GMT
A 61-year-old man has died from pneumonia in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in an outbreak of a yet to be identified virus while seven others are in critical condition, Wuhan health authorities say.
In total 41 people have been diagnosed with the pathogen, which preliminary lab tests cited by Chinese state media earlier this week pointed to a new type of coronavirus, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission said on Saturday in a statement on its website.
Two of them have been discharged from hospital and the rest are in stable condition, while 739 people deemed to have been in close contact with the patients have been cleared, it said.
The man, the first victim of the outbreak that began in December, was a regular buyer at the seafood market and had been previously diagnosed with abdominal tumours and chronic liver disease, the health authority said. Treatments did not improve his symptoms after he was admitted to hospital and he died on the evening of 9 January when his heart failed.
No new cases had been detected since 3 January, the commission added.
The Wuhan health authority also said the patients were mainly vendors and buyers at a seafood market in the city, and that to date no medical staff had been infected, nor had clear evidence of human-to-human transmission been found.
The World Health Organisation said on Thursday that a newly emerging member of the family of viruses that caused the deadly outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (Mers) could be the cause of the present outbreak.
Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that can cause infections ranging from the common cold to Sars. Some of the virus types cause less serious disease, while some like the one that causes Mers are far more severe.
The outbreak comes ahead of the lunar new year holidays in late January, when many of China’s 1.4 billion people will be travelling to their home towns or abroad. The Chinese government expects passengers to make 440m trips via rail and another 79m trips via airplanes.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... irst-death