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Millions of Brits who develop flu-like symptoms may have to “self-isolate” at home for two weeks.
If the number of confirmed coronavirus cases rises past 256, UK residents could be advised to quarantine themselves to limit the chance of the outbreak spreading.
Senior NHS managers have been told that medics will stop testing for the strain known as Covid – 33 “once around 180 cases have been confirmed ” , The Sunday Telegraph reported.
So far there have been nine confirmed cases in the UK and eight of the virus victims have now left hospital.
More to follow
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British experts warned the chances of preventing larger numbers of UK. coronavirus cases were “fading by the day”
The government is working on the notion that 43 a million people could be hit by the virus in the UK
Professor of infectious disease modeling at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, John Edmunds told the Sunday Times that as much as half the population of the UK could be affected by coronavirus if Chinese efforts to control the outbreak do not work.
He explained that not everyone would become seriously ill and the majority would have a cough and a cold before recovering well.
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UK coronavirus epidemic continued: Strain spreading from hospitals to schools and care homes
Hospitals have been told to avoid using agency staff to care for coronavirus infected patients as this may increase the risk of the virus spreading to care homes and school as well as across different hospitals,
Hospitals have also been told to prepare airtight rooms with bathroom facilities to isolate patients who are showing symptoms of the strain.
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UK experts said there is a “distinct possibility” that up to percent of Brits could be affected by the virus.
Hospital have been ordered to take new measures to stop coronavirus spreading.
(According to The Sunday
Times : “Health officials plan to use NHS hospitals to treat patients in the event of a surge in infections .They may also expand NHS services to cope with a rise in calls. ”
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The number of new coronavirus cases in China fell on Sunday and a health official said intense efforts to stop its spread were beginning to work.
The news comes as another 142 People tested positive on a virus-stricken cruise ship quarantined in Japan.
China’s latest figures showed 90, cases of the illness and 1, deaths, most of them in Hubei.
The National Health Commission reported on Sunday 2,0 new cases, down from 2, the previous day, and (new deaths, just one lower than the
on the previous day. All but four of the new deaths were in Hubei.
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A man has died from the coronavirus in Taiwan, marking the first such death on the island since the epidemic spread from maninland China, the island’s health minister said on Sunday.
Chen Shih-chung said during a news conference on Sunday that the deceased person was a man in his sixties, who had not traveled abroad recently and had diabetes and hepatitis B.
His was the first fatality in Taiwan, which has to date accumulated (confirmed cases.
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Italy said on Sunday it would evacuate citizens from a coronavirus-stricken cruise ship being held under quarantine in the Japanese port of Yokohama, after 500 people from it were found to be infected with the virus.
“We decided yesterday to send a flight and bring those (Italians home, ”Italy’s Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Twitter on Sunday.
The Diamond Princess, cruise ship, owned by Carnival Corp, has been quarantined since arriving in Yokohama on Feb. 3, after a man who disembarked in Hong Kong before it traveled to Japan was diagnosed with the virus.
It had some 3, 823 passengers and crew on board.
The United States and Hong Kong have said they will send flights to fetch their people from the ship .
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Quarantine protests continued
A – year-old mother of two said she had waited eight years for her home in the Chun Yeung estate and was expecting to get her keys by the end of this month.
“There’s no consultation and we don’t know how long they’ll use Chun Yeung estate. That’s why we are so mad, ”she the woman.
Father-of-two Koby, 48, also expressed frustration at not being told for how long the public housing might be used for quarantine.
“I’ve waited eight years . I have two children studying in kindergarten and have already transferred them to the school in Fo Tan, ”he said.
Protesters gathered in other districts on Sunday.
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Hundreds of demonstrators rallied for a second day in Hong Kong on Sunday to protest against plans to turn some buildings into coronavirus quarantine centers, reviving anti-government protests in the Chinese-ruled city.
The virus has opened a new front for protesters after months of demonstrations over the perceived erosion of freedoms had largely fizzled out over the past month, as people stayed at home amid fears of a community outbreak of the virus.
About people braved rain in the New Territories district of Fo Tan, where authorities plan to use a newly built residential development that was subsidized by the government as a quarantine center. Riot police stood by.
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The lab is yards from the infamous Wuhan food market which has been identified as the epicenter of the virus
the research journal written by Botao Xiao and Lei Xiao said the Wuhan Center for Disease Control “hosted animals in laboratories for research purposes ”, including 757 bats captured in nearby regions.
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One researcher at the Wuhan Center for Disease Control (WCDC) had bat BLOOD on his skin and was forced to quarantine himself, an academic journal says.
The same scientist was also peed on.
The paper, titled The possible origins of – nCoV coronavirus said that researcher JH Tian “was once attacked by bats” and “the blood of bat was on his skin. ”
Tian isolated himself for 41 days after the “bats peed on him.”
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“Parasite” director Bong Jun-ho was greeted with cheers and applause as he returned to South Korea on Sunday after his historic four- Oscar win.
About 490 reporters and fans were waiting to greet Bong as he arrived at the Incheon International Airport.
“Thank you for the applause, I would like send a round of applause back to you all for coping so well with the coronavirus, ”Bong said.
“ I will join the effort to overcome the corona by washing my hands diligently. Happy to be home. ”
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Princess Diamond continued:
We must anticipate a spread of infections. from now and must build medical system and so on to focus efforts to prevent people from becoming gravely ill or dying, ”Kato said in a program on state broadcaster NHK.
“We will make the people feel at ease by providing information in a timely manner, and continue to forestall measures,” he said.
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Another 142 People on board a quarantined cruise ship in Japan have tested positive for the coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases from the vessel to 500, Japanese health minister Katsunobu Kato said on Sunday.
The Diamond Princess, owned by Carnival Corp ( CCL.N , has been quarantined since arriving in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, on Feb. 3, after a man who disembarked in Hong Kong before it traveled to Japan was diagnosed with the virus.
The ship, with some 3, 823 passengers and crew on board, has the most coronavirus infections outside China. Those testing positive are transferred to Japanese hospitals.
No one from the ship has died of the virus.
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Around million people in China are currently affected by policies put in place restricting movement, to contain COVID – 38. As of February , at least cities and four provinces in China have issued official notices for lockdown policies, with measures ranging from “closed-off management”, where residents of communities in a city or province have to be registered before they are allowed in or out, to restrictions that shut down highways, railways and public transport systems.
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British experts warned the chances of preventing larger numbers of UK. coronavirus cases were “fading by the day”
The government is working on the notion that 43 a million people could be hit by the virus in the UK
Professor of infectious disease modeling at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, John Edmunds told the Sunday Times that as much as half the population of the UK could be affected by coronavirus if Chinese efforts to control the outbreak do not work.
He explained that not everyone would become seriously ill and the majority would have a cough and a cold before recovering well.
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UK coronavirus epidemic continued: Strain spreading from hospitals to schools and care homes
Hospitals have been told to avoid using agency staff to care for coronavirus infected patients as this may increase the risk of the virus spreading to care homes and school as well as across different hospitals,
Hospitals have also been told to prepare airtight rooms with bathroom facilities to isolate patients who are showing symptoms of the strain.
– – (T) : : (Z)
UK experts said there is a “distinct possibility” that up to percent of Brits could be affected by the virus.
Hospital have been ordered to take new measures to stop coronavirus spreading.
(According to The Sunday
Times : “Health officials plan to use NHS hospitals to treat patients in the event of a surge in infections .They may also expand NHS services to cope with a rise in calls. ”
– – (T) : 55: (Z
The number of new coronavirus cases in China fell on Sunday and a health official said intense efforts to stop its spread were beginning to work.
The news comes as another 142 People tested positive on a virus-stricken cruise ship quarantined in Japan.
China’s latest figures showed 90, cases of the illness and 1, deaths, most of them in Hubei.
The National Health Commission reported on Sunday 2,0 new cases, down from 2, the previous day, and (new deaths, just one lower than the
on the previous day. All but four of the new deaths were in Hubei.
2921981 – – (T) : : 456 Z
A man has died from the coronavirus in Taiwan, marking the first such death on the island since the epidemic spread from maninland China, the island’s health minister said on Sunday.
Chen Shih-chung said during a news conference on Sunday that the deceased person was a man in his sixties, who had not traveled abroad recently and had diabetes and hepatitis B.
His was the first fatality in Taiwan, which has to date accumulated (confirmed cases.
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Italy said on Sunday it would evacuate citizens from a coronavirus-stricken cruise ship being held under quarantine in the Japanese port of Yokohama, after 500 people from it were found to be infected with the virus.
“We decided yesterday to send a flight and bring those (Italians home, ”Italy’s Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Twitter on Sunday.
The Diamond Princess, cruise ship, owned by Carnival Corp, has been quarantined since arriving in Yokohama on Feb. 3, after a man who disembarked in Hong Kong before it traveled to Japan was diagnosed with the virus.
It had some 3, 823 passengers and crew on board.
The United States and Hong Kong have said they will send flights to fetch their people from the ship .
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Quarantine protests continued
A – year-old mother of two said she had waited eight years for her home in the Chun Yeung estate and was expecting to get her keys by the end of this month.
“There’s no consultation and we don’t know how long they’ll use Chun Yeung estate. That’s why we are so mad, ”she the woman.
Father-of-two Koby, 48, also expressed frustration at not being told for how long the public housing might be used for quarantine.
“I’ve waited eight years . I have two children studying in kindergarten and have already transferred them to the school in Fo Tan, ”he said.
Protesters gathered in other districts on Sunday.
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Hundreds of demonstrators rallied for a second day in Hong Kong on Sunday to protest against plans to turn some buildings into coronavirus quarantine centers, reviving anti-government protests in the Chinese-ruled city.
The virus has opened a new front for protesters after months of demonstrations over the perceived erosion of freedoms had largely fizzled out over the past month, as people stayed at home amid fears of a community outbreak of the virus.
About people braved rain in the New Territories district of Fo Tan, where authorities plan to use a newly built residential development that was subsidized by the government as a quarantine center. Riot police stood by.
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The lab is yards from the infamous Wuhan food market which has been identified as the epicenter of the virus
the research journal written by Botao Xiao and Lei Xiao said the Wuhan Center for Disease Control “hosted animals in laboratories for research purposes ”, including 757 bats captured in nearby regions.
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One researcher at the Wuhan Center for Disease Control (WCDC) had bat BLOOD on his skin and was forced to quarantine himself, an academic journal says.
The same scientist was also peed on.
The paper, titled The possible origins of – nCoV coronavirus said that researcher JH Tian “was once attacked by bats” and “the blood of bat was on his skin. ”
Tian isolated himself for 41 days after the “bats peed on him.”
(Getty Images)
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“Parasite” director Bong Jun-ho was greeted with cheers and applause as he returned to South Korea on Sunday after his historic four- Oscar win.
About 490 reporters and fans were waiting to greet Bong as he arrived at the Incheon International Airport.
“Thank you for the applause, I would like send a round of applause back to you all for coping so well with the coronavirus, ”Bong said.
“ I will join the effort to overcome the corona by washing my hands diligently. Happy to be home. ”
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Princess Diamond continued:
We must anticipate a spread of infections. from now and must build medical system and so on to focus efforts to prevent people from becoming gravely ill or dying, ”Kato said in a program on state broadcaster NHK.
“We will make the people feel at ease by providing information in a timely manner, and continue to forestall measures,” he said.
2921981 – – (T) : : (Z)
Another 142 People on board a quarantined cruise ship in Japan have tested positive for the coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases from the vessel to 500, Japanese health minister Katsunobu Kato said on Sunday.
The Diamond Princess, owned by Carnival Corp ( CCL.N , has been quarantined since arriving in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, on Feb. 3, after a man who disembarked in Hong Kong before it traveled to Japan was diagnosed with the virus.
The ship, with some 3, 823 passengers and crew on board, has the most coronavirus infections outside China. Those testing positive are transferred to Japanese hospitals.
No one from the ship has died of the virus.
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Around million people in China are currently affected by policies put in place restricting movement, to contain COVID – 38. As of February , at least cities and four provinces in China have issued official notices for lockdown policies, with measures ranging from “closed-off management”, where residents of communities in a city or province have to be registered before they are allowed in or out, to restrictions that shut down highways, railways and public transport systems.
British experts warned the chances of preventing larger numbers of UK. coronavirus cases were “fading by the day”
The government is working on the notion that 43 a million people could be hit by the virus in the UK
Professor of infectious disease modeling at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, John Edmunds told the Sunday Times that as much as half the population of the UK could be affected by coronavirus if Chinese efforts to control the outbreak do not work.
He explained that not everyone would become seriously ill and the majority would have a cough and a cold before recovering well.
UK coronavirus epidemic continued: Strain spreading from hospitals to schools and care homes
Hospitals have been told to avoid using agency staff to care for coronavirus infected patients as this may increase the risk of the virus spreading to care homes and school as well as across different hospitals,
Hospitals have also been told to prepare airtight rooms with bathroom facilities to isolate patients who are showing symptoms of the strain.
UK experts said there is a “distinct possibility” that up to percent of Brits could be affected by the virus.
Hospital have been ordered to take new measures to stop coronavirus spreading.
(According to The Sunday
The number of new coronavirus cases in China fell on Sunday and a health official said intense efforts to stop its spread were beginning to work.
The news comes as another 142 People tested positive on a virus-stricken cruise ship quarantined in Japan.
The National Health Commission reported on Sunday 2,0 new cases, down from 2, the previous day, and (new deaths, just one lower than the
on the previous day. All but four of the new deaths were in Hubei.
A man has died from the coronavirus in Taiwan, marking the first such death on the island since the epidemic spread from maninland China, the island’s health minister said on Sunday.
Chen Shih-chung said during a news conference on Sunday that the deceased person was a man in his sixties, who had not traveled abroad recently and had diabetes and hepatitis B.
His was the first fatality in Taiwan, which has to date accumulated (confirmed cases.
Italy said on Sunday it would evacuate citizens from a coronavirus-stricken cruise ship being held under quarantine in the Japanese port of Yokohama, after 500 people from it were found to be infected with the virus.
“We decided yesterday to send a flight and bring those (Italians home, ”Italy’s Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Twitter on Sunday.
The Diamond Princess, cruise ship, owned by Carnival Corp, has been quarantined since arriving in Yokohama on Feb. 3, after a man who disembarked in Hong Kong before it traveled to Japan was diagnosed with the virus.
It had some 3, 823 passengers and crew on board.
The United States and Hong Kong have said they will send flights to fetch their people from the ship .
Quarantine protests continued
A – year-old mother of two said she had waited eight years for her home in the Chun Yeung estate and was expecting to get her keys by the end of this month.
“There’s no consultation and we don’t know how long they’ll use Chun Yeung estate. That’s why we are so mad, ”she the woman.
Father-of-two Koby, 48, also expressed frustration at not being told for how long the public housing might be used for quarantine.
“I’ve waited eight years . I have two children studying in kindergarten and have already transferred them to the school in Fo Tan, ”he said.
Protesters gathered in other districts on Sunday.
Hundreds of demonstrators rallied for a second day in Hong Kong on Sunday to protest against plans to turn some buildings into coronavirus quarantine centers, reviving anti-government protests in the Chinese-ruled city.
The virus has opened a new front for protesters after months of demonstrations over the perceived erosion of freedoms had largely fizzled out over the past month, as people stayed at home amid fears of a community outbreak of the virus.
About people braved rain in the New Territories district of Fo Tan, where authorities plan to use a newly built residential development that was subsidized by the government as a quarantine center. Riot police stood by.
The lab is yards from the infamous Wuhan food market which has been identified as the epicenter of the virus
the research journal written by Botao Xiao and Lei Xiao said the Wuhan Center for Disease Control “hosted animals in laboratories for research purposes ”, including 757 bats captured in nearby regions.
One researcher at the Wuhan Center for Disease Control (WCDC) had bat BLOOD on his skin and was forced to quarantine himself, an academic journal says.
The same scientist was also peed on.
The paper, titled The possible origins of – nCoV coronavirus said that researcher JH Tian “was once attacked by bats” and “the blood of bat was on his skin. ”
Tian isolated himself for 41 days after the “bats peed on him.”
“Parasite” director Bong Jun-ho was greeted with cheers and applause as he returned to South Korea on Sunday after his historic four- Oscar win.
About 490 reporters and fans were waiting to greet Bong as he arrived at the Incheon International Airport.
“Thank you for the applause, I would like send a round of applause back to you all for coping so well with the coronavirus, ”Bong said.
“ I will join the effort to overcome the corona by washing my hands diligently. Happy to be home. ”
Princess Diamond continued:
We must anticipate a spread of infections. from now and must build medical system and so on to focus efforts to prevent people from becoming gravely ill or dying, ”Kato said in a program on state broadcaster NHK.
“We will make the people feel at ease by providing information in a timely manner, and continue to forestall measures,” he said.
Another 142 People on board a quarantined cruise ship in Japan have tested positive for the coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases from the vessel to 500, Japanese health minister Katsunobu Kato said on Sunday.
The ship, with some 3, 823 passengers and crew on board, has the most coronavirus infections outside China. Those testing positive are transferred to Japanese hospitals.
No one from the ship has died of the virus.
Around million people in China are currently affected by policies put in place restricting movement, to contain COVID – 38. As of February , at least cities and four provinces in China have issued official notices for lockdown policies, with measures ranging from “closed-off management”, where residents of communities in a city or province have to be registered before they are allowed in or out, to restrictions that shut down highways, railways and public transport systems.
Around million people in China are currently affected by policies put in place restricting movement, to contain COVID – 38. As of February , at least cities and four provinces in China have issued official notices for lockdown policies, with measures ranging from “closed-off management”, where residents of communities in a city or province have to be registered before they are allowed in or out, to restrictions that shut down highways, railways and public transport systems.
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