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[COVID-19 Virus] The PRC Situation Thread
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Looks like the reason was the huge increase in the number of deaths and confirmed cases yesterday:More than an hour has passed after the usual daily update time (i.e. between 6am and 6.20am), but still no updates as of now:
wjw.hubei.gov.cn/fbjd/dtyw
wjw.hubei.gov.cn/fbjd/tzgg
I wonder why...
Deaths in Hubei alone are now 1,310 (increasing by 242!):
wjw.hubei.gov.cn/fbjd/dtyw/202002/t20200213_2025581.shtml
Nearly 60,000 confirmed cases now (increasing by roughly 15,000!
news.qq.com/zt2020/page/feiyan.htm
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Judging by your meds, you need more rest and sleep. And cut down on smoking as nicotine is a stimulant.
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Thank you for your concern and advice. Rest and sleep are important, even more so now to boost our immunity. I honestly think that the nicotine is making me hear voices in my head.
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A college in central China’s Wuhan apologised for disregarding students’ belongings, while turning their dormitories into coronavirus isolation wards. Students’ personal properties were seen cleaned out from the drawers and tables. Many students expressed their concerns online.
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What better way to hide bad news than cutting off internet access completely ?
https://ntdtv.com/gb/2020/02/12/a102775029.html
https://ntdtv.com/gb/2020/02/12/a102775029.html
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i notice nobody show pray for china pray for wuhan photo. why? china has no friends?
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Coronavirus: Why many deaths will never appear in official figures
Many families have struggled to arrange hospital treatment for their relatives, including this woman whose daughter was filmed banging a gong on her balcony shouting for help.
PHOTO: Weibo
PHOEBE ZHANG
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
Feb 13, 2020
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Retired Wuhan factory worker Wei Junlan had always been in good health, but around two weeks after developing the first signs of a cough and fever, the 63-year-old was dead from what doctors suspect was the new coronavirus.
But her death on Jan 21 will not show up in official statistics about the outbreak - her death certificate listed the cause only as "heavy pneumonia".
Her nephew Jerry Shang said that Wei had not been tested for the disease, but that the doctor said her symptoms - including a lung infection, fever and increasing weakness - closely matched those of Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus.
By the end she was unable to walk, and the last the family saw of her was when she was being wheeled into the emergency room. The doctor told the family: "It's the pneumonia that everybody around the country knows about."
Local doctors have heard of many such cases and many Wuhan residents have complained that family members cannot get a proper diagnosis because frontline hospitals are overwhelmed in the face of high patient numbers and a shortage of supplies and testing kits.
Wei Peng, a community hospital doctor in the city, said that medical staff were not allowed to list coronavirus as a cause of death when cases had not been confirmed and said that later instructions had even banned them from listing pneumonia. Instead they can only write the immediate cause of a patient's death, such as diabetes or organ failure.
He also said the problem was compounded by the difficulty in getting some patients to hospital in time.
He gave the example of a woman whose father died at home because she did not have the strength to get him to her car and the ambulance was too busy to collect him.
"Such patients die at home, nothing can be done, and they cannot be counted in the official numbers," he said.
Some patients, like Wei, have died without it ever being confirmed what had taken their lives.
China's health authorities have admitted that the real number of Covid-19 cases is likely to be higher than official statistics show.
"The mortality rate that we calculate at the moment is for confirmed cases; there are cases with lighter symptoms or other scenarios not included in our statistics," Jiao Yahui, an official with the National Health Commission, said at a news conference last week.
Wei had never been to the Huanan Seafood Market, where the virus is widely believed to have originated, but she lived just 3km (2 miles) away and Shang, her nephew, suspects she became infected in the neighbourhood.
He also questioned the accuracy of the official figures for Covid-19 deaths and infections.
"As they updated the list of deaths, I kept checking for her name, but she was never among them," he said. "After a while, they stopped publishing individual names."
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Since official channels are overloaded, grass-roots volunteers across the country have come together to help verify and update medical information online, as well as assist people in need to contact those who can help them.
One such volunteer, Beijing-based Li Nian, said cases such as Wei's were common and often whole families could become infected.
But while the volunteers are able to provide communities with useful information - for example, telling people which hospitals have available beds or testing kits - getting full information about the situation on the ground is almost impossible.
One woman Li has been trying to help lost her husband at the start of the month - by which time the rest of the family had also fallen ill.
Although the woman and her son are now recovering, she is still frantically searching for a hospital with spare beds for her mother-in-law, whose illness is yet to be diagnosed.
Others have adopted more desperate measures in an effort to gain admission to hospital. Over the weekend one video widely circulated on social media showed a woman standing on her balcony banging a gong while shouting: "Help! I'm dying! Help, please someone help! I am at the end of my wits!"
Hubei Daily later reported that the woman had been trying to get help for her mother, who has since been confirmed as suffering from Corvid-19 and is being treated in Hanyang hospital.
The grief of those whose relatives have died at home is compounded by their confusion about what to do next, and often they do not have time for proper goodbyes.
Li said the woman she was helping barely had time to deal with her husband's death. The funeral home sent a car to pick up the body, but she did not know what to do with his bedsheets and clothes and was also trying to concentrate on finding a hospital bed for her mother-in-law.
Another Wuhan resident, Xia Chengfang, was unable to say a proper farewell to her grandfather, who died on January 28.
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"The hospital directly called the funeral home to cremate his body, we weren't able to see him in the end. My mother and uncle picked up his clothing, drove far away from the crowds and burned it," she said.
Funeral homes in the city have been working nonstop during the outbreak. An employee from Wuchang Funeral Home named Huang told Tencent News recently that staff were working round-the-clock shifts and often only have a few minutes rest between jobs.
Families of the dead are also banned from holding funeral ceremonies to prevent the further spread of the disease. Instead the hospitals, or families of those who die at home, have to contact the funeral homes who then take care of matters.
When the deceased is a suspected Covid-19 case, the family is asked to sanitise the home before the body is collected.
"We wear a full protection suit, with gloves, masks and goggles," Huang said. "When we come back to the funeral home, we spray disinfectant all over our bodies and hang the suit out to dry."
After his aunt died, Jerry Shang said the family was not allowed to see her body or arrange the funeral.
Instead, the hospital collected patients' bodies and arranged for a local funeral home to cremate them together.
Shang is the only member of Wei's family remaining in Wuhan after he told the dead woman's son to join her husband and other children in the southern city of Shenzhen before Wuhan went into lockdown.
He said that Wei's ashes were now being held at a local funeral home, adding: "The hospital said my cousin could come back and collect them once the outbreak is over."
Many families have struggled to arrange hospital treatment for their relatives, including this woman whose daughter was filmed banging a gong on her balcony shouting for help.
PHOTO: Weibo
PHOEBE ZHANG
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
Feb 13, 2020
FacebookTwitterTelegramWhatsAppEmail
Retired Wuhan factory worker Wei Junlan had always been in good health, but around two weeks after developing the first signs of a cough and fever, the 63-year-old was dead from what doctors suspect was the new coronavirus.
But her death on Jan 21 will not show up in official statistics about the outbreak - her death certificate listed the cause only as "heavy pneumonia".
Her nephew Jerry Shang said that Wei had not been tested for the disease, but that the doctor said her symptoms - including a lung infection, fever and increasing weakness - closely matched those of Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus.
By the end she was unable to walk, and the last the family saw of her was when she was being wheeled into the emergency room. The doctor told the family: "It's the pneumonia that everybody around the country knows about."
Local doctors have heard of many such cases and many Wuhan residents have complained that family members cannot get a proper diagnosis because frontline hospitals are overwhelmed in the face of high patient numbers and a shortage of supplies and testing kits.
Wei Peng, a community hospital doctor in the city, said that medical staff were not allowed to list coronavirus as a cause of death when cases had not been confirmed and said that later instructions had even banned them from listing pneumonia. Instead they can only write the immediate cause of a patient's death, such as diabetes or organ failure.
He also said the problem was compounded by the difficulty in getting some patients to hospital in time.
He gave the example of a woman whose father died at home because she did not have the strength to get him to her car and the ambulance was too busy to collect him.
"Such patients die at home, nothing can be done, and they cannot be counted in the official numbers," he said.
Some patients, like Wei, have died without it ever being confirmed what had taken their lives.
China's health authorities have admitted that the real number of Covid-19 cases is likely to be higher than official statistics show.
"The mortality rate that we calculate at the moment is for confirmed cases; there are cases with lighter symptoms or other scenarios not included in our statistics," Jiao Yahui, an official with the National Health Commission, said at a news conference last week.
Wei had never been to the Huanan Seafood Market, where the virus is widely believed to have originated, but she lived just 3km (2 miles) away and Shang, her nephew, suspects she became infected in the neighbourhood.
He also questioned the accuracy of the official figures for Covid-19 deaths and infections.
"As they updated the list of deaths, I kept checking for her name, but she was never among them," he said. "After a while, they stopped publishing individual names."
READ ALSO
Diary of a coronavirus survivor: Wuhan nurse claims she recovered from virus at home
Since official channels are overloaded, grass-roots volunteers across the country have come together to help verify and update medical information online, as well as assist people in need to contact those who can help them.
One such volunteer, Beijing-based Li Nian, said cases such as Wei's were common and often whole families could become infected.
But while the volunteers are able to provide communities with useful information - for example, telling people which hospitals have available beds or testing kits - getting full information about the situation on the ground is almost impossible.
One woman Li has been trying to help lost her husband at the start of the month - by which time the rest of the family had also fallen ill.
Although the woman and her son are now recovering, she is still frantically searching for a hospital with spare beds for her mother-in-law, whose illness is yet to be diagnosed.
Others have adopted more desperate measures in an effort to gain admission to hospital. Over the weekend one video widely circulated on social media showed a woman standing on her balcony banging a gong while shouting: "Help! I'm dying! Help, please someone help! I am at the end of my wits!"
Hubei Daily later reported that the woman had been trying to get help for her mother, who has since been confirmed as suffering from Corvid-19 and is being treated in Hanyang hospital.
The grief of those whose relatives have died at home is compounded by their confusion about what to do next, and often they do not have time for proper goodbyes.
Li said the woman she was helping barely had time to deal with her husband's death. The funeral home sent a car to pick up the body, but she did not know what to do with his bedsheets and clothes and was also trying to concentrate on finding a hospital bed for her mother-in-law.
Another Wuhan resident, Xia Chengfang, was unable to say a proper farewell to her grandfather, who died on January 28.
READ ALSO
Coronavirus: China's death toll rises to at least 630
"The hospital directly called the funeral home to cremate his body, we weren't able to see him in the end. My mother and uncle picked up his clothing, drove far away from the crowds and burned it," she said.
Funeral homes in the city have been working nonstop during the outbreak. An employee from Wuchang Funeral Home named Huang told Tencent News recently that staff were working round-the-clock shifts and often only have a few minutes rest between jobs.
Families of the dead are also banned from holding funeral ceremonies to prevent the further spread of the disease. Instead the hospitals, or families of those who die at home, have to contact the funeral homes who then take care of matters.
When the deceased is a suspected Covid-19 case, the family is asked to sanitise the home before the body is collected.
"We wear a full protection suit, with gloves, masks and goggles," Huang said. "When we come back to the funeral home, we spray disinfectant all over our bodies and hang the suit out to dry."
After his aunt died, Jerry Shang said the family was not allowed to see her body or arrange the funeral.
Instead, the hospital collected patients' bodies and arranged for a local funeral home to cremate them together.
Shang is the only member of Wei's family remaining in Wuhan after he told the dead woman's son to join her husband and other children in the southern city of Shenzhen before Wuhan went into lockdown.
He said that Wei's ashes were now being held at a local funeral home, adding: "The hospital said my cousin could come back and collect them once the outbreak is over."
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Coronavirus: Amid China mask shortage, diaper and phone makers step up to fill production void
Workers produce protective clothing at a factory which previously produced suits and sportswear and switched production for the fight against the coronavirus, in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, on Feb 8, 2020.
PHOTO: AFP
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Feb 13, 2020
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BEIJING - A diaper manufacturer in eastern China was closed for the Chinese New Year holiday when it heard from officials: China needed vast amounts of masks to fight a deadly virus epidemic and factories needed to chip in.
In just over two days, New Yifa Group converted a manufacturing line in Fujian province to make face masks, tapping some of its materials that would have gone into hygiene products.
"All our staff are working on the masks now," the group's vice-president Shen Shengyuan told AFP in a phone interview.
He added that the line can produce up to 600,000 mask pieces a day, and the company is looking to convert another diaper production line soon.
Companies across China - from iPhone maker Foxconn to car manufacturer BYD and garment factories - have made similar forays into protective gear as the country grapples with a shortage of medical equipment to prevent the virus from spreading.
To date, the virus has killed more than 1,350 people and infected some 60,000, sparking fear across the globe and causing people to stock up on protective supplies.
The authorities said this month that China urgently needed masks, especially at the epicentre of the crisis, Hubei, where doctors face a shortage.
At full capacity, Chinese factories can produce around 20 million masks a day.
While over 76 per cent of mask producers and 77 per cent of protective suit makers had resumed work as of Monday (Feb 10) in 22 regions, there remains a serious shortage of masks and other protective supplies, officials said this week.
Doctors on the front line in Wuhan - the epicentre of the outbreak - have had to see patients without proper masks or protective body suits, or have to resort to reusing the same equipment.
READ ALSO
At least 500 Wuhan medical staff infected with coronavirus
Manufacturers are stepping up, but this comes at a cost, with New Yifa Group postponing a US$6 million (S$8.3 million) order to focus on mask production.
But Mr Shen is confident the local government in Putian city, where the firm is based, will help companies like his tide over.
In other cities such as Ningbo in eastern Zhejiang province, 14 garment manufacturers are looking to produce a million masks in 20 days, reported Xinhua on Wednesday.
Chinese automaker BYD said in a statement that it was looking into the design and making of protective gear, to produce masks and disinfectant.
BYD expects to make up to five million masks and 50,000 bottles of disinfectant a day by the end of the month.
It plans to start mass production by Monday and told AFP the masks will go to hospitals and seriously affected areas, among others.
Others that have stepped in include a General Motors venture in China, SAIC-GM-Wuling, and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec).
Sinopec said on China's Twitter-like platform Weibo on Sunday that it was setting up 11 production lines with partners and targets making up to over a million masks a day by March 10.
READ ALSO
Chinese food delivery giant Ele.me to deliver meals to Wuhan medical staff
Taiwan tech giant Foxconn, which assembles Apple products, also said in a social media post last week that it started producing masks at a plant in Shenzhen.
It expects to make up to two million masks a day by end-February.
The masks will be supplied to its own workers, and can be distributed externally where needed.
Workers produce protective clothing at a factory which previously produced suits and sportswear and switched production for the fight against the coronavirus, in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, on Feb 8, 2020.
PHOTO: AFP
AFP
Feb 13, 2020
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BEIJING - A diaper manufacturer in eastern China was closed for the Chinese New Year holiday when it heard from officials: China needed vast amounts of masks to fight a deadly virus epidemic and factories needed to chip in.
In just over two days, New Yifa Group converted a manufacturing line in Fujian province to make face masks, tapping some of its materials that would have gone into hygiene products.
"All our staff are working on the masks now," the group's vice-president Shen Shengyuan told AFP in a phone interview.
He added that the line can produce up to 600,000 mask pieces a day, and the company is looking to convert another diaper production line soon.
Companies across China - from iPhone maker Foxconn to car manufacturer BYD and garment factories - have made similar forays into protective gear as the country grapples with a shortage of medical equipment to prevent the virus from spreading.
To date, the virus has killed more than 1,350 people and infected some 60,000, sparking fear across the globe and causing people to stock up on protective supplies.
The authorities said this month that China urgently needed masks, especially at the epicentre of the crisis, Hubei, where doctors face a shortage.
At full capacity, Chinese factories can produce around 20 million masks a day.
While over 76 per cent of mask producers and 77 per cent of protective suit makers had resumed work as of Monday (Feb 10) in 22 regions, there remains a serious shortage of masks and other protective supplies, officials said this week.
Doctors on the front line in Wuhan - the epicentre of the outbreak - have had to see patients without proper masks or protective body suits, or have to resort to reusing the same equipment.
READ ALSO
At least 500 Wuhan medical staff infected with coronavirus
Manufacturers are stepping up, but this comes at a cost, with New Yifa Group postponing a US$6 million (S$8.3 million) order to focus on mask production.
But Mr Shen is confident the local government in Putian city, where the firm is based, will help companies like his tide over.
In other cities such as Ningbo in eastern Zhejiang province, 14 garment manufacturers are looking to produce a million masks in 20 days, reported Xinhua on Wednesday.
Chinese automaker BYD said in a statement that it was looking into the design and making of protective gear, to produce masks and disinfectant.
BYD expects to make up to five million masks and 50,000 bottles of disinfectant a day by the end of the month.
It plans to start mass production by Monday and told AFP the masks will go to hospitals and seriously affected areas, among others.
Others that have stepped in include a General Motors venture in China, SAIC-GM-Wuling, and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec).
Sinopec said on China's Twitter-like platform Weibo on Sunday that it was setting up 11 production lines with partners and targets making up to over a million masks a day by March 10.
READ ALSO
Chinese food delivery giant Ele.me to deliver meals to Wuhan medical staff
Taiwan tech giant Foxconn, which assembles Apple products, also said in a social media post last week that it started producing masks at a plant in Shenzhen.
It expects to make up to two million masks a day by end-February.
The masks will be supplied to its own workers, and can be distributed externally where needed.
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This video covers how the virology lab in Wuhan was taken over by the military.
The guest speaker 程晓农 was 赵紫阳 economic advisor and self-exiled to US when 赵 was subdued by 邓小平 during Tianamen crackdown. Been following his videos for few years and he offers great insights on how the CCPee operates.
The guest speaker 程晓农 was 赵紫阳 economic advisor and self-exiled to US when 赵 was subdued by 邓小平 during Tianamen crackdown. Been following his videos for few years and he offers great insights on how the CCPee operates.
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From no freedom of speech to no freedom of movement, 厉害了我的国.Tickets for quarantined residents.
Each household only allowed to send one person out twice a week to buy food and daily necessities.
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Thanks to Tiong Cock, Vietnam also forced quarantine on own village now,
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When you have no mask but still need to go out....
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feminine napkin is ok as alternative. used one cost more.
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This is for a good reason, why fault the CCP for doing the right thing?
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Has the CCPee ever done any right thing ? How much CCPee pay you for defending it here ?
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