Coronavirus
Situation Is
Quickly Going From Bad To
Worse
BREAKING!! STAY AT HOME!! NOT ENOUGH MASKS TO KEEP HOSPITALS SAFE
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/japans-abe-closes-schools-nationwide-south-korea-confirms-505-new-cases-surpassing
The Iranian vice president for women and family affairs, Masoumeh Ebtekar, has come down with the new strain of coronavirus, media reported Thursday.
"Ms.
Ebtekar showed signs of infection with coronavirus and was tested.
The results came back positive", her adviser was quoted as
saying by the state news agency IRNA.
Earlier
in the day, the head of Iran's Parliamentary Security and Foreign
Relations Commission Mojtaba Zonnour said he had tested positive for
coronavirus. Another lawmaker, Mahmoud Sadeghi, previously wrote on
Twitter that his corona test had been positive.
FARS
news agency reports that for former Iranian Ambassador to The Vatican
has died from Covid-19
Pope
Francis has been forced to cancel a planned Mass in Rome with other
clergy after suffering a 'slight illness'.
The
Vatican said the 83-year-old pontiff had a 'slight indisposition'
that meant he did not attend an event at the St John Lateran basilica
in Rome on Thursday morning.
A
spokesman said Francis would continue with the rest of his day's
business, but preferred to stay within the Vatican rather than travel
across the city.
There
was no word from the Vatican about the nature of his illness, but the
pope was seen coughing and blowing his nose during the Ash Wednesday
Mass.
Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday asked all elementary, junior high and
high schools nationwide to close from Monday through the students’
spring break, which typically ends in early April.
“Efforts
have been made to prevent the spread of infection among children in
each region, and these one or two weeks will be an extremely critical
period,” Abe told a meeting of key Cabinet ministers on the
coronavirus outbreak crisis.
“The
government attaches the top priority to the health and safety of
children, among others,” he said.
Later
Thursday, the health and welfare ministry said Abe’s request does
not apply to day care centers for children and after-school
facilities for elementary school students
China,
Japan and South Korea are at risk of a second wave of disruptions to
their supply chains due to the ongoing impact of the coronavirus
epidemic, which risks already slowing global trade, analysts warned.
The
three Asian countries contribute around 24 per cent of the entire
world economy with a combined yearly trading volume of over US$720
billion, forming one of the most integrated international economic
blocs in the world.
The
three countries, though, have been hit hard by the coronavirus
outbreak with over 1,500 confirmed cases in South Korea and over 180
domestic cases in Japan in addition to over 700 cases on the Diamond
Princess cruise ship.
The
coronavirus has grounded flights and restricted the flow of people
between the three countries, while also disrupting integrated
industrial supply chains across the region, with the electronics and
automotive industries the hardest hit.
If
the epidemic spreads in Japan and South Korea, it will bring a second
blow to the global industrial chain and impact downstream companies
in China
Song
Xuetao
“If
the epidemic spreads in Japan and South Korea, it will bring a second
blow to the global industrial chain and impact downstream companies
in China,” said Song Xuetao, an economist at Tianfeng Securities.
A
woman in Japan has tested positive for coronavirus for a second time.
The tour-bus guide, in Osaka, is the first person in the country to
do so amid growing concerns as the virus spreads.
Eight
people in Japan have died from coronavirus, while more than 2,800
people have died worldwide.
Doctors
have previously spoken about the potential for reinfection from
coronavirus, as the strain is still new and scientists are unable to
say how long immunity will last. Dr Babak Ashrafi, at UK-based online
doctor Zava, told Metro.co.uk:
‘Experts
are busy gathering information from those who have become infected to
see how well their immune systems react and how long they’ll remain
immune.
The coronavirus has an ‘HIV-like’ mutation which helps it to bind with human cells at a terrifyingly effective rate, Chinese scientists have claimed.
A new study from Nankai University alleged that Covid-19’s ability to infect cells is up to 1,000 times more powerful than SARS, a coronavirus which caused 774 deaths in 17 countries between November 2002 and July 2003.
The new coronavirus emerged in Wuhan, China, and has now killed 2,800 victims and infected more than 80,000.
In a new piece of research, scientists said SARS enters the human body by binding with a protein called ACE2 that exists in human cell membranes.
But the new coronavirus aims for an enzyme called furin – the same enzyme attacked by HIV and ebola. Professor Ruan Jishou and his team at Nankai University found genes in Covid-19 which did not exist in SARS but can be found in both of the viruses responsible for spreading HIV and ebola, according to the South China Morning Post. Trump downplays coronavirus risk, likens it to flu
https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/27/coronavirus-hiv-like-mutation-helps-attack-human-cells-scientists-claim-12314129/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/isabeltogoh/2020/02/27/health-secretary-alex-azar-refuses-to-guarantee-coronavirus-vaccine-would-be-affordable-for-all/#224038f0490c
Officials
at the Department of Health and Human Services sent more than a dozen
workers to receive the first Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China,
the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, without proper training
for infection control or appropriate protective gear, according to a
whistleblower complaint.
The
workers did not show symptoms of infection and were not tested for
the virus, according to lawyers for the whistleblower, a senior HHS
official based in Washington who oversees workers at the
Administration for Children and Families, a unit within HHS.
The
whistleblower is seeking federal protection, alleging she was
unfairly and improperly reassigned after raising concerns about the
safety of these workers to HHS officials, including those within the
office of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar. She was told
Feb. 19 that if she does not accept the new position in 15 days,
which is March 5, she would be terminated.
The
whistleblower has decades of experience in the field, received two
HHS department awards from Azar last year and has received the
highest performance evaluations, her lawyers said.
The
complaint was filed Wednesday with the Office of the Special Counsel,
an independent federal watchdog agency. The whistleblower’s lawyers
provided a copy of a redacted 24-page complaint to The Washington
Post. A spokesman for the Office of the Special Counsel confirmed
that it has received the complaint and assigned the case.
California governor Gavin
Newsom says
more than 8,000 people in the state are being monitored
for coronavirus infections.
There
are have been 33 confirmed cases of the flu-like respiratory illness
in the state, including what is likely the first confirmed
infection in a patient who was infected through "community
spread" and didn't come into direct contact with another
patient, according to the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention.
The
governor confirmed that 8,400 California residents are
being medically monitored for novel coronavirus COVID-19 in 49
local jurisdictions.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coronavirus-california-cdc-outbreak-gavin-newsom-us-trump-latest-a9363976.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1582831692
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The Korea Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed that a Korean Air flight attendant infected with the novel coronavirus serviced a flight to Israel that was previously linked to cases of the virus.
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The flight attendant is believed to have serviced additional flights after returning to South Korea, according to news reports.
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South Korean media is reporting that the flight attendant worked flights between Seoul and Los Angeles, a popular route for the airline.
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