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[COVID-19 Virus] The PRC Situation Thread
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Shockwaves over Force Majeure
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...cates-amid-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKBN1ZU075
Force Majeure will not only allow Chinese corporations to walk away from contractual obligations, in the worst case situation chinese suppliers can swallow the deposits.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...cates-amid-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKBN1ZU075
Force Majeure will not only allow Chinese corporations to walk away from contractual obligations, in the worst case situation chinese suppliers can swallow the deposits.
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First Wuhan
NOW WENZHOU get locked down
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/soc...-sector-business-capital-lockdown-coronavirus
This is really bad
NOW WENZHOU get locked down
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/soc...-sector-business-capital-lockdown-coronavirus
This is really bad
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Why is Lawrence Wong, the National Development Minister, is the key person in charge of this Wuhan virus committee when the Health Minister for Singapore is taking a secondary back seat role in this serious public health matter affecting Singapore?
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Do you feel sad when you see politicians use N95 and medical personnel use surgical masks?
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When the warmer weather sets in...the virus will be just a bad dream n ah tiong land will continues its dramatic rise. This virus is a minor hiccup exaggerated by the media n medical corporations. Wat is the difference between this virus n the common flu during the winter flu season?
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Let's call a spade a spade..wat is the difference between the wuhan virus n a normal flu during the winter flu season?
Deadly flu season has researchers racing to find out why this year has been 'exceptional'
Carolina Williams smiles standing in a kitchen with a coffee cup.
PHOTO Carolina Williams has recovered after being hospitalised with the flu. ABC NEWS: DEA CLARK
Carolina Williams is celebrating her 49th birthday and she has more than one reason to be happy.
Three weeks ago, the Toowoomba businesswoman feared she might not live to celebrate the occasion after coming down with the flu.
"I had lots of aches and pains and a fever. In the end due to my breathing problems, I had to call the ambulance," Ms Williams said.
She was so sick doctors considered putting her in an induced coma.
"Initially it felt to me like a normal cold, the difference was, it escalated quite quickly," she said.
Ms Williams is one of the nearly 217,000 Australians diagnosed with influenza so far this year.
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Video 1:06
Mum-of-three dies from flu in Queensland
ABC News
The national death toll officially stands at 430, although the real figure could be much higher with experts saying some deaths are attributed to other causes despite flu-related complications.
In Queensland this year, at least 84 people have died.
Her grieving husband pleaded with people to get vaccinated.
"I've got three kids without a mum because of a flu," he said.
"This stuff kills.
"If you're sick, go to the doctor."
It is one of the worst seasons in two decades, second only to the flu epidemic of 2017.
In some states the flu season appears to be over, but the number of people being diagnosed in the eastern states remains high.
The very young and the elderly are the most at risk.
Graph showing the number of influenza infections in Australia
Margaret Power, 88, visited her local GP when she felt unwell.
"It wasn't real serious, but I thought I'd get on top of it early," she said.
But things quickly went from bad to worse with Ms Power spending the last few weeks recovering in hospital.
She had contracted the most common circulating strain, influenza A.
An elderly woman in a hospital room
PHOTO Margaret Power has spent weeks recovering from the flu.
Krispin Hajkowicz treated Ms Power after she arrived by ambulance at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital.
"Margaret was very unwell when she came in and unfortunately developed a severe pneumonia and blood stream infection related to her flu."
The Director of the Hospital's Infectious Diseases Unit, Dr Hajkowicz said he's never seen a flu season like it.
A doctor in a hospital ward
PHOTO Krispin Hajkowicz, director of the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital infectious diseases unit. ABC NEWS: DEA CLARK
"We've all been working very hard, the hospitals have been dealing with very large number of cases of influenza through the emergency department, the general wards and the intensive care units."
Normally, flu cases spike in the cooler months, between June and September.
This year, health authorities were caught by surprise when the season started much earlier than usual.
A report by the World Health Organisation Influenza Centre described the outbreak as "exceptional."
Report author Professor Ian Barr said the number of cases was about "five times what we'd normally see in that inter-seasonal period".
"2019 … may actually exceed the 2017 season," he said.
Now the race is on to find out why.
A male and a female medical researcher in a laboratory
PHOTO Kirsty Short and Jianyun Lu are working to understand why the season has been so bad. ABC NEWS: DEA CLARK
Jianyun Lu, has travelled from China to study the unusual flu season under the tutelage of the University of Queensland's, Kirsty Short.
They have discovered a slight association with climatic factors, but not enough to account for the large spike.
"We can't explain 100 per cent why, when it's over 25 degrees Celsius, why we have a very sharp increase," Dr Lu said.
So they have turned their attention to the virus itself.
There was an unusual number of children hospitalised with flu over summer and it's the strains isolated from those patients that the researchers have under the microscope.
Dr Short said they are investigating whether certain mutations were enabling the virus to "survive longer in the environment", or allowing it to "transmit better".
"By the end of the year, I think we'll have a good understanding of potential factors that could have contributed to our unusual summer flu," Dr Short said.
Professor Barr identified a large outbreak in the Northern Territory at the end of last year, and a mild-2018 influenza season as contributing factors and said there needed to be year-round surveillance.
Flu patient Carolina Williams using her asthma puffer.
PHOTO Carolina Williams had received a flu vaccination. ABC NEWS: DEA CLARK
"In Australia we rely on a number of different reporting mechanisms, so we can track influenza seasons. Some of these are run all year round, but a number of them, such as the surveillance in hospitals, only run from April to November," he said.
"We need to be better prepared. Maybe we can tweak the vaccination timings if we see these early outbreaks."
A record 12.5 million vaccines have been distributed so far this year.
Vaccination didn't help Carolina Williams and Margaret Power but Dr Hajkowicz said it was still "the best way to protect yourself and those who might not be able to have the strongest immune response to their own vaccination."
Posted Sun 18 Aug 2019, 5:07 AM AEST
Deadly flu season has researchers racing to find out why this year has been 'exceptional'
Carolina Williams smiles standing in a kitchen with a coffee cup.
PHOTO Carolina Williams has recovered after being hospitalised with the flu. ABC NEWS: DEA CLARK
Carolina Williams is celebrating her 49th birthday and she has more than one reason to be happy.
Three weeks ago, the Toowoomba businesswoman feared she might not live to celebrate the occasion after coming down with the flu.
"I had lots of aches and pains and a fever. In the end due to my breathing problems, I had to call the ambulance," Ms Williams said.
She was so sick doctors considered putting her in an induced coma.
"Initially it felt to me like a normal cold, the difference was, it escalated quite quickly," she said.
Ms Williams is one of the nearly 217,000 Australians diagnosed with influenza so far this year.
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.
Video 1:06
Mum-of-three dies from flu in Queensland
ABC News
The national death toll officially stands at 430, although the real figure could be much higher with experts saying some deaths are attributed to other causes despite flu-related complications.
In Queensland this year, at least 84 people have died.
Her grieving husband pleaded with people to get vaccinated.
"I've got three kids without a mum because of a flu," he said.
"This stuff kills.
"If you're sick, go to the doctor."
It is one of the worst seasons in two decades, second only to the flu epidemic of 2017.
In some states the flu season appears to be over, but the number of people being diagnosed in the eastern states remains high.
The very young and the elderly are the most at risk.
Graph showing the number of influenza infections in Australia
Margaret Power, 88, visited her local GP when she felt unwell.
"It wasn't real serious, but I thought I'd get on top of it early," she said.
But things quickly went from bad to worse with Ms Power spending the last few weeks recovering in hospital.
She had contracted the most common circulating strain, influenza A.
An elderly woman in a hospital room
PHOTO Margaret Power has spent weeks recovering from the flu.
Krispin Hajkowicz treated Ms Power after she arrived by ambulance at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital.
"Margaret was very unwell when she came in and unfortunately developed a severe pneumonia and blood stream infection related to her flu."
The Director of the Hospital's Infectious Diseases Unit, Dr Hajkowicz said he's never seen a flu season like it.
A doctor in a hospital ward
PHOTO Krispin Hajkowicz, director of the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital infectious diseases unit. ABC NEWS: DEA CLARK
"We've all been working very hard, the hospitals have been dealing with very large number of cases of influenza through the emergency department, the general wards and the intensive care units."
Normally, flu cases spike in the cooler months, between June and September.
This year, health authorities were caught by surprise when the season started much earlier than usual.
A report by the World Health Organisation Influenza Centre described the outbreak as "exceptional."
Report author Professor Ian Barr said the number of cases was about "five times what we'd normally see in that inter-seasonal period".
"2019 … may actually exceed the 2017 season," he said.
Now the race is on to find out why.
A male and a female medical researcher in a laboratory
PHOTO Kirsty Short and Jianyun Lu are working to understand why the season has been so bad. ABC NEWS: DEA CLARK
Jianyun Lu, has travelled from China to study the unusual flu season under the tutelage of the University of Queensland's, Kirsty Short.
They have discovered a slight association with climatic factors, but not enough to account for the large spike.
"We can't explain 100 per cent why, when it's over 25 degrees Celsius, why we have a very sharp increase," Dr Lu said.
So they have turned their attention to the virus itself.
There was an unusual number of children hospitalised with flu over summer and it's the strains isolated from those patients that the researchers have under the microscope.
Dr Short said they are investigating whether certain mutations were enabling the virus to "survive longer in the environment", or allowing it to "transmit better".
"By the end of the year, I think we'll have a good understanding of potential factors that could have contributed to our unusual summer flu," Dr Short said.
Professor Barr identified a large outbreak in the Northern Territory at the end of last year, and a mild-2018 influenza season as contributing factors and said there needed to be year-round surveillance.
Flu patient Carolina Williams using her asthma puffer.
PHOTO Carolina Williams had received a flu vaccination. ABC NEWS: DEA CLARK
"In Australia we rely on a number of different reporting mechanisms, so we can track influenza seasons. Some of these are run all year round, but a number of them, such as the surveillance in hospitals, only run from April to November," he said.
"We need to be better prepared. Maybe we can tweak the vaccination timings if we see these early outbreaks."
A record 12.5 million vaccines have been distributed so far this year.
Vaccination didn't help Carolina Williams and Margaret Power but Dr Hajkowicz said it was still "the best way to protect yourself and those who might not be able to have the strongest immune response to their own vaccination."
Posted Sun 18 Aug 2019, 5:07 AM AEST
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Traces of the disease were spotted on a door handle used by the patient as Coronavirus death toll surpasses SARS numbers in China.
More people in China have already died from the ongoing coronavirus outbreak than from the SARS epidemic 17 years ago, Chinese officials said. Meanwhile, traces of the disease were spotted on a door handle used by the patient.
The death toll from the previously-unknown coronavirus in China has grown to 361 on Sunday, the country's National Health Commission said. This number exceeds the 349 fatalities from the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic in mainland China in 2003.
Out of 57 newly reported deaths, 56 were in central Hubei Province, whose capital Wuhan remains the epicenter of the outbreak, and one in the city of Chongqing in China's southwest. So far, the only death from the virus outside mainland China was registered in the Philippines.
Overall, 17,205 cases of the virus have now been registered in China since the outbreak started in late December.
During a press briefing in Beijing on Monday, Deputy Director of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) Lian Weiliang announced that China will step up measures to supply Wuhan with basic goods as it remains quarantined along with several other major cities.
Army troops stationed in Wuhan have taken over the delivery of food and basic necessities, using military trucks to stock local supermarkets. The authorities also ordered to boost the production of face masks and test kits after the Lunar New Year holidays in response to shortages in Wuhan and some other areas in Hubei.
Zhang Zhoubin, deputy head of a disease prevention center in the southeastern city of Guangzhou, said coronavirus was "found" on the door handle at a patient's home. "This reminds me that we have to do well in keeping hygiene at home, and it is important to frequently wash our hands," he said. Zhang warned that other areas prone to contamination include mobile phones, keyboards, and faucet handles.
Meanwhile, biotech companies in Wuhan have been conducting experiments on rats and monkeys, in hope of developing vaccines. The scientists identified three drugs "effective" in slowing down the spread of the virus in the cell structure, however, they have not been tested on humans yet, Wang Wei, director of Hubei’s Science and Technology Department, said.
https://www.rt.com/news/479936-china-coronavirus-surpasses-sars/
More people in China have already died from the ongoing coronavirus outbreak than from the SARS epidemic 17 years ago, Chinese officials said. Meanwhile, traces of the disease were spotted on a door handle used by the patient.
The death toll from the previously-unknown coronavirus in China has grown to 361 on Sunday, the country's National Health Commission said. This number exceeds the 349 fatalities from the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic in mainland China in 2003.
Out of 57 newly reported deaths, 56 were in central Hubei Province, whose capital Wuhan remains the epicenter of the outbreak, and one in the city of Chongqing in China's southwest. So far, the only death from the virus outside mainland China was registered in the Philippines.
Overall, 17,205 cases of the virus have now been registered in China since the outbreak started in late December.
During a press briefing in Beijing on Monday, Deputy Director of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) Lian Weiliang announced that China will step up measures to supply Wuhan with basic goods as it remains quarantined along with several other major cities.
Army troops stationed in Wuhan have taken over the delivery of food and basic necessities, using military trucks to stock local supermarkets. The authorities also ordered to boost the production of face masks and test kits after the Lunar New Year holidays in response to shortages in Wuhan and some other areas in Hubei.
Zhang Zhoubin, deputy head of a disease prevention center in the southeastern city of Guangzhou, said coronavirus was "found" on the door handle at a patient's home. "This reminds me that we have to do well in keeping hygiene at home, and it is important to frequently wash our hands," he said. Zhang warned that other areas prone to contamination include mobile phones, keyboards, and faucet handles.
Meanwhile, biotech companies in Wuhan have been conducting experiments on rats and monkeys, in hope of developing vaccines. The scientists identified three drugs "effective" in slowing down the spread of the virus in the cell structure, however, they have not been tested on humans yet, Wang Wei, director of Hubei’s Science and Technology Department, said.
https://www.rt.com/news/479936-china-coronavirus-surpasses-sars/
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The officials are more kia si due to their status, power and finance, they loving it. More likely the location they attended has alrdy disinfectant dozen of timesDo you feel sad when you see politicians use N95 and medical personnel use surgical masks?
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They are co-chairmen on the task force, they are seated beside each other, not one behind the other. 
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More cover-up exposed.
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Coronavirus: Singapore to "generously" put together "$$$ assistance package" for China while Singaporean are only given 4 pieces of surgical masks to use only when they are infected by the Wuhan virus or sick.
Singapore on Monday announced it would put together an assistance package for China, which is battling to stem the coronavirus outbreak
, with the island nation’s leaders stressing they had the utmost confidence in Beijing to weather the crisis.
The coronavirus, which was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan, has infected over 17,000 people around the world, killing more than 360.
Singapore’s health minister Gan Kim Yong on Monday told parliament the coronavirus had become “not just a problem for China but for the world”.
“We have to work together and collaborate with each other. For this reason, Singapore will be putting together an assistance package to help communities in China affected by the novel coronavirus,” he said, without elaborating on what the package would entail.
His comments came just days after Singapore barred all foreign passport holders travelling from mainland China from entering or transiting through the city state, becoming the first Southeast Asian country to do. The United States made a similar move hours later, with Indonesia, Australia and the Philippines following suit over the weekend.
Other Asian countries including Japan and Malaysia have taken less drastic steps, restricting only Chinese travellers from Hubei province, the epicentre of the outbreak.
In a February 1 conversation with his Malaysian counterpart Saifuddin Abdullah, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi reiterated that the World Health Organisation (WHO) did not recommend measures to restrict international travel and trade, prompting concerns that Singapore’s move would be seen in a negative light.
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/heal...rus-singapore-put-together-assistance-package
Singapore on Monday announced it would put together an assistance package for China, which is battling to stem the coronavirus outbreak
, with the island nation’s leaders stressing they had the utmost confidence in Beijing to weather the crisis.
The coronavirus, which was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan, has infected over 17,000 people around the world, killing more than 360.
Singapore’s health minister Gan Kim Yong on Monday told parliament the coronavirus had become “not just a problem for China but for the world”.
“We have to work together and collaborate with each other. For this reason, Singapore will be putting together an assistance package to help communities in China affected by the novel coronavirus,” he said, without elaborating on what the package would entail.
His comments came just days after Singapore barred all foreign passport holders travelling from mainland China from entering or transiting through the city state, becoming the first Southeast Asian country to do. The United States made a similar move hours later, with Indonesia, Australia and the Philippines following suit over the weekend.
Other Asian countries including Japan and Malaysia have taken less drastic steps, restricting only Chinese travellers from Hubei province, the epicentre of the outbreak.
In a February 1 conversation with his Malaysian counterpart Saifuddin Abdullah, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi reiterated that the World Health Organisation (WHO) did not recommend measures to restrict international travel and trade, prompting concerns that Singapore’s move would be seen in a negative light.
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/heal...rus-singapore-put-together-assistance-package
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