In italy, they smashed the chinese barber shop. Not sure if its connected with the coronavirus?
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In Haikou, Hainan Province, China, a message and a photo were sent to a skyscraper in honor of a medical team dispatched from Haikou to Hubei. Feel cyberpunk
In Haikou, Hainan Province, China, a message and a photo were sent to a skyscraper in honor of a medical team dispatched from Haikou to Hubei. Feel cyberpunk
Hendrik_2000
Lieutenant General
Good news China relax the lock down
Large parts of China relax coronavirus curbs, many places report zero new cases
February 24, 2020, 12:02 AM CST
BEIJING, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Urged to restore economic activity by President Xi Jinping, large parts of China relaxed curbs on transport and movement of people on Monday as reported new cases of the coronavirus outside the worst-hit province fell to the lowest in a month.
Figures released by the national health authority on Monday showed 24 out of China's 31 provinces and regions - including Beijing, Shanghai and populous provinces such as Henan and Anhui - reported zero cases of new infections on Feb. 23, the best showing since it began publishing nationwide figures on Jan. 20.
There were just 11 new cases in six other provincial-level jurisdictions, while in Hubei province, the epicentre of the epidemic, the number of new cases fell to 398 from 630 a day earlier.
On Sunday, President Xi hailed the positive trend, and urged businesses to resume work and safeguard jobs. He also told low-risk provinces to restore economic activity and output, while high-risk regions focussed on controlling the epidemic.
Yunnan, Guangdong, Shanxi and Guizhou on Monday lowered their coronavirus emergency response measures from the most serious level, joining the provinces of Gansu and Liaoning in relaxing restrictions on traffic and movement of people.
The coronavirus has infected nearly 77,000 people and killed more than 2,500 in China in one of the most serious public health crises in decades. The pathogen has also spread to other countries such as South Korea, Italy and Iran.
Whether or not China can defeat the epidemic is "a major test of (Communist) Party organisations, party members and cadres of all levels," Xi said, warning officials to avoid complacency.
Hubei remains virtually cut off from the outside world, although the provincial capital of Wuhan, ground zero of the outbreak, said on Monday it will allow people in good health to leave the city for essential reasons.
In the rest of China, factories, businesses and construction sites have already gradually restarted.
Large state-owned enterprises have been told to spearhead a recovery in industry while policymakers roll out measures to support struggling small and medium-sized companies.
China's gross domestic product may slow in the first quarter, possibly easing to 3% growth or even lower, from 6% in the previous quarter - which was already the weakest pace in nearly 30 years, economists estimated.
"The risk is that, with the emphasis on the economy and a differentiation of regions based on the number of new infection cases, the quality of new infection data reported by local governments could be compromised again," Nomura wrote in a research note.
"Cover-ups could lead to slack preventions..." it said.
Beijing, which has reported two straight days of zero new infections, is not letting down its guard.
People not wearing masks in public places will be warned, and office buildings must set upper limits on daily human traffic, municipal authorities said on Monday.
U.S. hypermarket chain Costco received a verbal warning from authorities in Shanghai after a large crowd flocked to its newly opened store in the city.
At a coffee shop on Friday in the central Futian financial district in Shenzhen, most tables were full, though staff were seen telling patrons to pull their masks back up between sips, and telling them not to dwell over their drinks too long.
"You should stay here for only 10 to 15 minutes, sorry," a customer was told. (Additional reporting by Judy Hua, Huizhong Wu, Yawen Chen and David Kirton; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore)
Large parts of China relax coronavirus curbs, many places report zero new cases
February 24, 2020, 12:02 AM CST
BEIJING, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Urged to restore economic activity by President Xi Jinping, large parts of China relaxed curbs on transport and movement of people on Monday as reported new cases of the coronavirus outside the worst-hit province fell to the lowest in a month.
Figures released by the national health authority on Monday showed 24 out of China's 31 provinces and regions - including Beijing, Shanghai and populous provinces such as Henan and Anhui - reported zero cases of new infections on Feb. 23, the best showing since it began publishing nationwide figures on Jan. 20.
There were just 11 new cases in six other provincial-level jurisdictions, while in Hubei province, the epicentre of the epidemic, the number of new cases fell to 398 from 630 a day earlier.
On Sunday, President Xi hailed the positive trend, and urged businesses to resume work and safeguard jobs. He also told low-risk provinces to restore economic activity and output, while high-risk regions focussed on controlling the epidemic.
Yunnan, Guangdong, Shanxi and Guizhou on Monday lowered their coronavirus emergency response measures from the most serious level, joining the provinces of Gansu and Liaoning in relaxing restrictions on traffic and movement of people.
The coronavirus has infected nearly 77,000 people and killed more than 2,500 in China in one of the most serious public health crises in decades. The pathogen has also spread to other countries such as South Korea, Italy and Iran.
Whether or not China can defeat the epidemic is "a major test of (Communist) Party organisations, party members and cadres of all levels," Xi said, warning officials to avoid complacency.
Hubei remains virtually cut off from the outside world, although the provincial capital of Wuhan, ground zero of the outbreak, said on Monday it will allow people in good health to leave the city for essential reasons.
In the rest of China, factories, businesses and construction sites have already gradually restarted.
Large state-owned enterprises have been told to spearhead a recovery in industry while policymakers roll out measures to support struggling small and medium-sized companies.
China's gross domestic product may slow in the first quarter, possibly easing to 3% growth or even lower, from 6% in the previous quarter - which was already the weakest pace in nearly 30 years, economists estimated.
"The risk is that, with the emphasis on the economy and a differentiation of regions based on the number of new infection cases, the quality of new infection data reported by local governments could be compromised again," Nomura wrote in a research note.
"Cover-ups could lead to slack preventions..." it said.
Beijing, which has reported two straight days of zero new infections, is not letting down its guard.
People not wearing masks in public places will be warned, and office buildings must set upper limits on daily human traffic, municipal authorities said on Monday.
U.S. hypermarket chain Costco received a verbal warning from authorities in Shanghai after a large crowd flocked to its newly opened store in the city.
At a coffee shop on Friday in the central Futian financial district in Shenzhen, most tables were full, though staff were seen telling patrons to pull their masks back up between sips, and telling them not to dwell over their drinks too long.
"You should stay here for only 10 to 15 minutes, sorry," a customer was told. (Additional reporting by Judy Hua, Huizhong Wu, Yawen Chen and David Kirton; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore)
Dengue Fever is a common annual problem in all equatorial countries, some years worse than the other. The equator passes through the northern tip of Peru. So there is nothing unusual.
Last week, a patient in Singapore hospitalized for dengue fever was also tested positive for Covid-19 ( ).
The ignorant CNN reporter who wrote the article should stay on top of the medical development relating to the Covid-19 virus. In the last few days, a leading Chinese scientist discovered that recovered patients may still have traces of the virus that can continue to infect other people. He recommended that recovered patients should still self quarantine for 14 days. This explains the incidence in the CNN article.
Below are two news articles on the finding, one from Newsweek and one from SCMP.
Calling such news media bias will not change their attitude. Countering them with facts will. FACTS DO MATTER.
supercat
Major
The new diagnostic criteria was used from 2/12 to 2/19. If I exclude data from those days, then there won't be much left in my charts.
Please notice that the website you linked to is not official and its numbers may be different from the official sources.
Official Chinese source:
Official English source:
COVID-19 update, tables:
The new diagnostic criteria was used from 2/12 to 2/19. If I exclude data from those days, then there won't be much left in my charts.
removing the data point of new confirmed from Feb 12 reduces the scale and make the graphs more readable
Japanese health ministry hasn't updated their number of PCR tests since Feb 21.
I guess they are trying to turn the numbers of infections in Japan from a known unknown to an unknown unknown.
Meanwhile CDC is still struggling to get its own tests ready for wide deployment.
I guess they are trying to turn the numbers of infections in Japan from a known unknown to an unknown unknown.
Meanwhile CDC is still struggling to get its own tests ready for wide deployment.
