The
World Health Organization on Friday raised its global risk assessment
over the new coronavirus stemming from China to the highest level,
but stopped short of declaring it a pandemic, saying there is still a
chance of containing the disease.
"We
have now increased our assessment of the risk of spread and the risk
of impact of COVID-19 to very high at a global level," WHO
Director General Tedros Ghebreyesus said in a press briefing,
referring to the official name of the pneumonia-like disease caused
by the virus that has spread to every continent except Antarctica.
The global risk assessment is now on par with the risk level in China, where massive numbers of infection cases and deaths have been reported and whose central city of Wuhan has been locked down. The move by the WHO came about a month after it declared the virus outbreak a global emergency.
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2020/02/aa7bacd5ebc5-update1-who-raises-global-risk-from-coronavirus-to-very-high.html
South
Korea reported 256 newly confirmed cases in its first update of the
day on Friday (this week, health officials have been updating the
count every 12 hours or so). The new batch brings the small East
Asian country's total to 2,022, and also puts South Korea on track to
confirm more than 1,000 new cases in 48 hours.
A
Solano County woman now critically ill with coronavirus was
hospitalized for 11 days before her infection was revealed to
healthcare workers, raising the potential of broader community
exposure to the dangerous respiratory disease.
Suffering
from flu-like symptoms, the patient brought herself to the 50-bed
NorthBay VacaValley Hospital in Vacaville on Feb. 15, according to
the Washington Post. She was transferred to UC Davis for advanced
care four days later, on Feb. 19.
Suspecting
coronavirus, UC Davis requested a test upon her arrival. The U.S.
Centers for Disease Control conducted the test four days later, on
Sunday, Feb. 23. Results were not returned until Wednesday, Feb. 26,
according to a UC Davis statement.
Faced
with the prospect of community spread of the disease, expanded
testing is essential, said Gov. Gavin Newsom at a Thursday morning
briefing in Sacramento.
https://www.thereporter.com/2020/02/27/coronavirus-want-a-test-to-see-if-you-have-it-youll-have-to-wait/
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Some
experts say the new coronavirus will probably never disappear.
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Instead,
it will likely become like the flu and other respiratory viruses
that constantly circulate in the human population and fluctuate with
the seasons.
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Coronaviruses
and other respiratory illnesses tend to retreat in hotter, more
humid weather. But even if the new coronavirus naturally subsides
come spring, it could return in the winter
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/feb/27/coronavirus-england-only-has-15-beds-for-worst-respiratory-cases?CMP=share_btn_fb
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https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/world/japanese-woman-recovered-coronavirus-tests-positive-again-weeks-later
Didn't get your mask?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8055401/Coronavirus-1-000-times-infectious-SARS-scientists-warn.html?ito=facebook_share_article-top
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The
Iranian Parliament is suspending its work amid the spread of
coronavirus in the country, the spokesman for the legislative body
revealed on Friday.
According
to the spokesman, Asadullah Abbasi, Parliament will not be holding
any sessions until further notice.
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