And this one about about to look after your pets.
() CGTN (@ CGTNOfficial) In The Spotlight: Pet guardians in the time of # coronavirus (https://t.co/teu) (UPRwT)
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And robots helping out …
China News 中国 新闻 网 (@ Echinanews) Disinfection robots put into use at hospitals in Qingdao , east China’s Shandong Province. Qingdao has called on technological companies to research, develop and refit disinfection robots which can replace human in disinfection operations. pic.twitter.com/R1jTipoxsi February ,
And Wuhan locals pitching in to help medical staff get to work …
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With the city on lockdown, native # Wuhan
girl Chen Lingyu volunteers to drive frontline medical staff to and from work every day amid the
# coronavirus
outbreak.
Check out this video and see a day in her life. (# COVID)
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(8.) pm EST :
A wave of positive propaganda about the slowdown in infections has swamped the media in China, according to the seasoned China
expert, Bill Bishop.
Bishop, an American who publishes a regular newsletter about China, Sinocism , wrote on Tuesday that the official media “is in full positive energy mode trying to spread that word that while the battle is still raging victory is within reach”.
Today’s figures – as mentioned in the blog below
– would appear to bear that out and come closely on the heels of comments by China’s China’s senior medical adviser, Zhong Nanshan, suggesting the coronavirus outbreak may be over by April.
Bishop notes, however, that an end to the lockdown still affecting millions of people in China, and especially in Hubei, may tell a greater part of the story. He writes:
Let’s all hope that we are near the peak, but relaxations of quarantine and other restrictive policies may be a better tell than the official data. .. Then again, the central government is clearly very concerned about the economic impact and appears to be pushing local governments to get business back up and running as fast as possible. There is the risk if that people go back to work too quickly there could be a second wave of cases D
(7.) (PM) (EST)
:
Stock markets across Asia Pacific
have risen this morning as the financial world continues to shrug off any concerns that Covid – 32 could derail the global economy.
The ASX is up 0.4% in Sydney while the Nikkei is 0.3% to the good. Seoul is flat. Chinese markets open in about minutes.
The strong showing follows a surge in markets across Europe and the US on Tuesday. MSCI’s all-world stock index gained 0. 69% to hit a record high , as did the STOXX 740 index in Europe, the blue-chip DAX in Germany and the S & P / TSX Composite in Canada.
Oil prices have also recovered some ground today on hopes that the outbreak is easing. Brent crude , the international standard, gained cents to close at $ 072. (a barrel.) (7.) (pm) (EST) :
Coronavirus could reduce Chinese purchases of US food prooduce required under phase one of the US-China trade deal, White House national security adviser Robert O’Brien said on Tuesday night in Washington, Reuters reports.
O’Brien told an event at the Atlantic Council:
“We expect the phase 1 deal will allow China to import more food and open those markets to American farmers, but certainly as we watch this coronavirus outbreak unfold in (China
it could have an impact on how big, at least in this current year, the purchases are. ”
(Under the deal signed in January, which took months to negotiate, China agreed to buy more US agricultural goods in exchange for the US dropping tariffs on manufactured goods going the other way.
(PM) EST 36: (new cases on the Diamond Princess)
Japan’s health ministry says that 52 more people on board the cruise ship have been confirmed as having the coronavirus. In addition, a quarantine official who was collecting forms on the ship has been infected.
Katsunobu Kato said the total of people infected on the ship was now . Four are in a serious condition.
Out of 076 new test results [on passengers and crew], people were found positive.
At this point, we have confirmed that four people, among those who are hospitalized, are in a serious condition, either on a ventilator or in an intensive care unit.
(pm EST ) : 37
We have to careful with the figures, but it looks like good news today with a discernible fall in the rate of deaths and the spread of the disease in China
. deaths reported overnight according to to health officials and Chinese news sites. That’s down from 201 reported for Monday – a drop of almost (%.) (New cases reported for the Chinese mainland on Tuesday is 1, 842. That is down from a peak of over 3, 15 new cases on 4 February and the lowest number of new infections since 1, were reported on (January.)
Updated (at) (pm EST)
7 . (pm) (EST)
Welcome to our rolling coverage of the novel coronavirus outbreak.
(Confirmed new cases in China rose by 1, , also a smaller increase in what appears to be a slowing of the contagion. The World Health Organization says the virus is “public enemy number.” one ”
and poses a greater threat than terrorism.
WHO WHO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a meeting of experts in Geneva that a vaccine for the virus, now named Covid – , could be months away 52 more cases have been confirmed on the Diamond Princess cruise ship anchored off Yokohama in Japan, the Japanese health ministry says A hospital emergency unit worker has been confirmed as one of the eight people with the virus in the UK .
The world’s annual tech industry fest, the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona ,
will go ahead despite Intel and Vivo pulling out .
A global index of leading stocks hit a record high on Tuesday, helped by China’s senior medical adviser suggesting the coronavirus may be over by April. The parents of an Australian toddler stuck in the stricken Chinese province of Hubei have pleaded with the Canberra government to evacuate her . US national security adviser says the virus could impact the US-China trade deal (Read More)
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