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[COVID-19 Virus] The PRC Situation Thread

laksaboy

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Prc so big only shut down the huanan wild animals market? How about other province or city? What info given to other city? Or just lockdown?

A lot of cities, towns and kampungs are fully or partially locked down. Some speculate that the internet has been shut off in Wuhan or Hubei, because they're 'ground zero' and the videos and social media updates are becoming lesser with every passing day.

Latest one is Wenzhou, a city across the sea from Taipei and near the border with the Hokkien province.
 

laksaboy

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Tiong cop died while checking for online POFMA crimes. He was 37 years old. Probably died of stress. :wink:
 

blackmondy

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Just 3km from CCPee HQ......

武汉肺炎继续加油, 让病毒扫遍中南海, 实现天灭终共预言 !

 

JurongEast

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china banks will be opened for businesses tomorrow and lets see if people will be panic to withdraw money
 

Hypocrite-The

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Even vietcong land banned ah tiongs n cancelled flights.

Vietnam backtracks on Hong Kong and Taiwan flight ban over virus fears
Vietnam declares public health emergency and halts all flights to and from mainland China
Government will also stop issuing visas for foreign visitors who had been in China in past two weeks
Published: 11:53am, 2 Feb, 2020

Updated: 12:26pm, 2 Feb, 2020

Vietnam has suspended all flights from mainland China as part of “strengthening measures” against the coronavirus outbreak, its civil aviation authority said Saturday.

The body earlier took sweeping measures to also bar flights from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau in a bid to slow the spread of the virus, but later backtracked.

“We have suspended flights from Vietnam to mainland China only,” Trinh Quoc Tuan, chief of staff at the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV), said.

Hong Kong’s civil aviation authority confirmed in a statement late Saturday that the brief flight ban on the territory had been reversed as did Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry.

Taiwan is a major investor in Vietnam, investing some US$32 billion in the past three decades.

The suspensions apply to flights to and from mainland China to “prevent and control” new infections, the CAAV said.

It came into effect early Saturday and several airports in Vietnam showed cancelled flights from Chinese cities by evening.

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Vietnam also said it would also stop issuing visas for foreign visitors who had been in China in the past two weeks

Vietnam is the latest country to impose extraordinary travel barriers after the virus spread to two dozen nations and killed 259 people in China where it originated in the city of Wuhan.

The United States temporarily barred entry to foreigners who had been in China within the past two weeks and Australia said it was barring entry to non-citizens arriving from China.

Italy, Singapore and Mongolia have taken similar sweeping measures, while Vietnam has suspended new tourist visas for Chinese nationals and foreigners who have travelled to China in the past two weeks.

Philippine media reported that President Rodrigo Duterte was set to issue a temporary travel ban on visitors from China, including Hong Kong and Macau.

That came as the country reported the first coronavirus death outside China.

The World Health Organisation declared the coronavirus outbreak a global health emergency on Thursday but did not advise international trade or travel restrictions.

Vietnam’s announcement came after the country confirmed its sixth case of the coronavirus.

A 25-year-old hotel receptionist working in the popular coastal resort city Nha Trang contracted the Sars-like pathogen after coming into contact with a Chinese father and son – the first two confirmed cases of coronavirus in Vietnam.

Hers is the second case of human-to-human transmission in Vietnam after the Chinese father from Wuhan infected his son who had been in Vietnam for several months.

The three other cases are Vietnamese nationals who had been in Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak.

Vietnam has joined Thailand, China, Germany, Japan, South Korea, France and the United States as the only countries with confirmed domestic coronavirus infections.

Additional reporting by Reuters
 

Hypocrite-The

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More n more countries are banning travelers from ah tiong land.

China travel bans spread despite WHO advice
Vietnam among countries imposing blanket ban as virus fears mount

published : 1 Feb 2020 at 21:21

updated: 1 Feb 2020 at 21:53

Doctors help each other put on protective suits before entering the isolation section at Cho Ray hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam has confirmed six infections so far. (Reuters Photo)
Doctors help each other put on protective suits before entering the isolation section at Cho Ray hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam has confirmed six infections so far. (Reuters Photo)
Governments and airlines worldwide are suspending travel to virus-stricken China despite World Health Organization advice that such drastic measures aren’t necessary.

Australia on Saturday joined the United States in denying entry to non-citizens travelling from China. Israel also said it would refuse entry to foreign nationals coming from the country.

Vietnam halted all air travel to China, Italy banned incoming flights, the first European Union country to do so, and Qatar Airways became the first Middle East carrier to suspend flights to China.

With confirmed cases nearing 12,000 and deaths in China at 259 as of Saturday, countries are seeking to keep anyone who might have been exposed to the potentially lethal virus away. But the moves run counter to the recommendation of the WHO, which said on Thursday that it could demand scientific justification from countries that go beyond its guidance not to restrict travel.

Anxiety has escalated with more evidence that people may transmit the disease without obvious telltale signs of infection, such as coughing, sneezing and a fever. Some data has emerged suggesting that patients’ diarrhoea may pose a risk of contagion.

The WHO declared the virus a public health emergency of international concern on Thursday. The move allows the agency to recommend travel and trade measures for specific countries, regions and cities that its member states usually follow, despite their economic consequences.

In this case, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus specifically discouraged any such measures.

“The WHO doesn’t recommend and actually opposes any restrictions for travel and trade or other measures against China,” he said, while praising China’s response to the outbreak. “If anyone is thinking about taking measures, it’s going to be wrong.”

But the steady stream of announcements coming from governments and airlines around the world suggests not many people share his view.

Vietnam suspended all China flights, effective immediately, as part of “strengthening measures” against the outbreak, its civil aviation authority said on Saturday.

The national carrier Vietnam Airlines and the budget airline Jetstar Pacific said they would stop flying to mainland China as well as Hong Kong and Taiwan.

An AFP correspondent on a flight from Taiwan to Vietnam was among 98 passengers told to disembark just as the announcement went public.

“The decision is ridiculous and unacceptable,” Vietnamese tourist Doan Thi Ngoc Diep told AFP after leaving the plane.

In Australia, Qantas Airways said it would suspend its two direct flight routes to mainland China from Feb 9 in response to travel restrictions imposed by some countries.

The national carrier’s direct flights from Sydney to Beijing and Sydney to Shanghai will be halted until March 29, it said on Saturday.

Cebu Air, the Philippines’ largest budget carrier, said it would halt all China flights from Sunday. The suspensions will last until March 29.

Delta Air Lines and American Airlines have become the first US carriers to suspend all flights to China. Delta said its suspension would last from Feb 6 through April 30, while American has halted flights from Saturday until March 27.

Earlier, the Air Line Pilots Association secured agreements with United Airlines and Delta to allow pilots to decline to fly to China if they have concerns about travelling there, according to union representatives.

European carriers including British Airways and Air France had already halted flights to China.

In other developments on Saturday:

Vietnam reported its sixth confirmed infection, a 25-year-old female hotel receptionist who had contact with two Chinese men who tested positive for the virus, according to the health ministry.

Authorities in the south-central province of Quang Ngai ordered industrial parks to place about 300 Chinese workers under a 14-day quarantine and test them for the virus, the VnExpress news website reported.

Papua New Guinea, with limited resources to deal with a major public-health threat, has gone further than nearly any other country: it has shut its air and seaports to all foreign travellers coming from Asia. It also shut its only land border with the Indonesia-controlled province of West Papua.

Indonesia will evacuate 245 of its nationals living in Wuhan and other towns in Hubei province, Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said. They have undergone tests and been declared free of coronavirus, she said.

The Hong Kong government has found 49 people from Hubei after searching about 500 hotels, and will send them to quarantine centres or help them leave the city, according to Sophia Chan, secretary for food and health. About 30 of them have either left or plan to depart Hong Kong, she said.

China will require those returning to Hubei to get approval from local prevention bureaus first, according to the provincial government’s official WeChat account.

The Hubei provincial government has extended the Lunar New Year holiday break to Feb 13 as it seeks to curb the outbreak that first emerged in Wuhan.

South Korea confirmed another case of coronavirus, bringing the total there to 12.

The country evacuated 333 citizens from Wuhan in a second charter flight that landed in Seoul on Saturday. About seven of those on the flight showed symptoms associated with the virus and were sent to hospital, the report said.

In Japan, three more returnees from Wuhan have tested positive for the virus, the health ministry said.

They are among the Japanese nationals who returned on government-chartered flights earlier in the week and are in addition to 17 people already found to have been infected.

Russia said it would evacuate more than 2,500 of its citizens holidaying on China’s Hainan island, far from the epicentre of the virus.

In the United States, the government has put about 200 US citizens repatriated from Wuhan under legal quarantine at March Air Reserve Base in Southern California. The group includes State Department personnel, family members, children and other Americans. It’s the first time such a policy has been used in the US since the 1960s, when a quarantine order was issued to stop the spread of smallpox.

The economic impact of the health crisis is expected to be substantial, with one report predicting automobile output will fall by 32%. Plant closings that last into mid-March would cut production by 1.7 million cars, the research group IHS Markit said.

Expectations were already bleak as the year began, with the firm predicting a 10% drop in first-quarter output.

The potential hit in lost global growth could total $160 billion, according to Warwick McKibbin, a professor of economics at Australian National University. The effect of this outbreak could be three to four times larger than the blow from Sars.

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mudhatter

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Some of that 'high IQ' should have been used to think, to invent, to be creative, to innovate, to be the trendsetter rather than the follower. To think outside the box. I get it there's a genetic inhibition due to inferior mongoloid/slanty genes.

Mongoloids/slanties are/were never good at thinking outside the box. That's strictly the preserve of the superior race of Caucasoids.

Had the chinks not indulged in all those unearthly, unappetizing, disgusting, vomit-inducing items such as tiger penis, cockroaches, bird's nest, snake soup, shark fin, bat soup, bull's testicles, rat soup, pig trotters and a seemingly unending list of inedible, incredibly disgusting items, maybe these diseases would not be coming out of Tiongkok every now and again.

Is there an end to this Tiong madness? To this Tiong barbarity? Bird flu wasn't enough? SARS was not enough? Pig flu, Wuhan virus, what next? Pekking Duck Flu? Monkey Brain Porridge encephalitis? Even the most smelliest CECA virus also kena knocked out!



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