New virus from shithole China

[Black Orchid]

This self isolation idea is just all kinds of STUPID!

[Black Orchid]

E-Woo in lockdown!

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/vir ... 53wln.html

E-Ping and Chattywoo are apparently very quiet also.

[The Reboot]

Coronavirus 'domestic outbreak' warning as China slams US travel ban

A World Health Organisation (WHO) official has warned that governments need to prepare for "domestic outbreak control" as China's death toll from a new virus rose to 259.
Key points:

The enforced lockdown across Hubei province has been extended
At least 24 countries have now confirmed cases of the coronavirus
China says the United States' travel ban is "not a gesture of goodwill"

Beijing criticised Washington's order barring entry to most foreigners who visited China in the past two weeks, a similar measure to that announced by Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Saturday.

Mr Morrison said Australia's chief medical officers had recommended denying entry to Australia for people who have left or transited through mainland China from February 1.

Exceptions would be made for Australian citizens, permanent residents and their immediate families, as well as air crews who have been using appropriate personal protective equipment.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has advised Australians not to travel to China due to the "escalating threat" of the virus, while asking those who have returned from the country to self-isolate for 14 days.

On Saturday, South Australia confirmed its first two cases of coronavirus and Victoria its fourth, bringing the national total to 12.

Foreign Minister Marise Payne said the process of evacuating Australians from Wuhan is being planned and would be finalised "soon".

The Federal Government now says evacuees will not be charged for being flown back from China, despite Australians caught in the epicentre of the outbreak originally being told it would cost them $1,000 if they agreed to an "assisted departure".

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg told Insiders on Sunday that charge will no longer apply.

He said the Government had been given incorrect advice from the Department of Foreign Affairs.

Meanwhile, South Korea and India flew hundreds of their citizens out of Wuhan, the city at the centre of an area where some 50 million people are prevented from leaving in a sweeping anti-virus effort.

The evacuees went into a two-week quarantine.

Indonesia also sent a plane, sparking rowdy protests from residents living near a military base that will house evacuees.

The number of confirmed cases in China rose to 11,791, surpassing the number in the 2002-03 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).

Both the new virus and SARS are from the coronavirus family, which also includes those that cause the common cold.

The virus's rapid spread in two months prompted WHO on Thursday to declare it a global emergency.

Be ready for 'domestic outbreak control': WHO

That declaration "flipped the switch" from a cautious attitude earlier to recommending governments prepare for the possibility the virus might spread, said the WHO representative in Beijing, Gauden Galea.

Most cases reported so far have been people who visited China or their family members.

WHO said it was especially concerned that some cases abroad involved human-to-human transmission.

"Countries need to get ready for possible importation in order to identify cases as early as possible and in order to be ready for a domestic outbreak control, if that happens," Mr Galea said.
US travel ban criticised by China

The United States declared a public health emergency on Friday and President Donald Trump signed an order barring entry to foreign nationals, other than immediate family of American citizens and permanent residents, who visited China within the last 14 days, which scientists say is the virus's longest incubation period.

Americans returning from China will be allowed into the country, but will face screening and are required to undertake 14 days of self-screening. Those returning from Hubei province will be subject to a 14-day quarantine.

Beginning on Sunday, the United States will direct flights from China to seven major airports where passengers can be screened.

Delta Air Lines and American Airlines suspended all flights between the United States and China. Other carriers including British Airways, Finnair and Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific also have cancelled or cut back service to mainland China. Vietnam suspended all flights to China.

The US order followed a travel advisory for Americans to consider leaving China.

Japan and Germany also advised against non-essential travel to China and Britain did as well, except for Hong Kong and Macao.

China criticised the US controls, which it said contradicted the WHO's appeal to avoid travel bans, and "unfriendly comments" that Beijing was failing to cooperate.

"Just as the WHO recommended against travel restrictions, the US rushed to go in the opposite way. Certainly not a gesture of goodwill," said foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying.

WHO Secretary-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in Geneva that despite the emergency declaration, there is "no reason for measures that unnecessarily interfere with international travel and trade."

Lunar New Year extended

Meanwhile, the ruling Communist Party postponed the end of the Lunar New Year holiday in Hubei province, where Wuhan is located, for an unspecified "appropriate extent" and appealed to the public there to stay home.

Another locked-down city in Hubei, Huanggang, on Saturday banned almost all of its residents from leaving their homes in the most stringent controls imposed yet.

The government said only one person from each household would be allowed out to shop for food once every two days.

"Others are not allowed to go out except for medical treatment, to do epidemic prevention and control work or to work in supermarkets and pharmacies," it said in an announcement.

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Pfft. I really wish the UN/WHO would just piss off. Slamming Donald Trump for not listening to mummy WHO, because he wanted to protect the US's citizens.

Why anybody would take their advice now is beyond me. They want to run the world and dictate what every country should and shouldn't do, but when an emergency strikes what do they do? The exact same thing all useless politicians do - sit on their collective backsides and twiddle their thumbs, telling people they're "talking about it".

Admitting they are reluctant to declare an emergency because of the "economy". because they don't want to bite the hand that feeds.

So much for that UN charter, eh?

[Black Orchid]

Exceptions would be made for Australian citizens, permanent residents and their immediate families, as well as air crews who have been using appropriate personal protective equipment.

Yes well that's about 80% of the population of Sydney. YAY!

[The Reboot]

Exceptions would be made for Australian citizens, permanent residents and their immediate families, as well as air crews who have been using appropriate personal protective equipment.

Yes well that's about 80% of the population of Sydney. YAY!

You'll be right, Orchid. Just "self-isolate" until it's over.

[Black Orchid]

Exceptions would be made for Australian citizens, permanent residents and their immediate families, as well as air crews who have been using appropriate personal protective equipment.

Yes well that's about 80% of the population of Sydney. YAY!

You'll be right, Orchid. Just "self-isolate" until it's over.

Do I get a leaflet to go with that?

[The Reboot]

Exceptions would be made for Australian citizens, permanent residents and their immediate families, as well as air crews who have been using appropriate personal protective equipment.

Yes well that's about 80% of the population of Sydney. YAY!

You'll be right, Orchid. Just "self-isolate" until it's over.

Do I get a leaflet to go with that?

Yep, and a complimentary fact-sheet detailing the 72 genders.

[Black Orchid]

I'll never remember 72 genders. 2 is about all I can cope with.

The Philippines has reported the first death related to coronavirus outside of China.

The country's Department of Health said a 44-year-old Chinese man from Wuhan was admitted to hospital on January 25 after experiencing fever, cough and a sore throat.

He developed severe pneumonia, and in his last few days, "the patient was stable and showed signs of improvement, however, the condition of the patient deteriorated within his last 24 hours resulting in his demise," the health department said.

The man's 38-year-old female companion, also from Wuhan, tested positive for the virus and remains in hospital isolation in Manila.

She's the second case in the Philippines.

The news comes as the first evacuation flight, a Qantas Boeing 747, left Sydney to travel via Hong Kong to Wuhan.

Dozens of Australians have been stranded in the city, which went into lockdown after the outbreak of the coronavirus.

A total of 305 people have now died from coronavirus.

The number of confirmed cases globally has exceeded 14,500, according to a live map by Johns Hopkins University in the US that collates data from the World Health Organisation and the Centre for Disease Control.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-02/ ... a/11922116

Once they start dying in Aus people are going to get a tad mad.

[The Reboot]

Once they start dying in Aus people are going to get a tad mad.

I'm already mad. Bunch of useless imbeciles we have in Government.

[Black Orchid]

Video has surfaced apparently showing Chinese officials taking face masks supplied for medical staff dealing with coronavirus patients.

Beijing News posted a video of a news report on how members of the public have been donating supplies of face masks and other items in response to the desperation of staff who have been pictured sleeping in the hospital and making protective clothing out of garbage bags.

The report showed footage of what appeared to be government officials taking some of the donated face masks.

In the news item, a Chinese-language statement from the Wuhan government said officials attending a meeting on emergency supplies had taken charge of the masks and other donated supplies from China's Red Cross, which is managing the donations.

"We will further standardise the collection, storage, and distribution of protective gear for frontline workers … Thank you to the media for their attention and supervision."

That statement enraged online users of the Weibo platform, giving life to the hashtag "Wuhan government responds to taking personnel face masks".

Photos of medical staff in surgical masks greeting officials in specialised N95 respirator masks also fuelled anger over the handling of the outbreak by officials in Wuhan and greater mainland China.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/coronavirus ... ical-staff