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Three new cases of pneumonia infected with coronavirus confirmed in Zhuhai Source: This website Post time: 2020-01-20 21:37 　　On January 20th, the National Health and Health Commission confirmed three confirmed cases of pneumonia in a new type of coronavirus infection in Zhuhai. 　　The patient was a family of three: father (78 years old), mother (76 years old) and daughter (49 years old). The parents took the high-speed rail from Wuhan to their daughter's house on January 11th. On January 15th, the father felt unwell and went to the clinic. January A suspected case of pneumonia with a new coronavirus infection was initially diagnosed on the 17th and transferred to the CUHK Fifth Hospital for isolation and treatment. The mother and daughter developed fever and other symptoms. On the 18th, they were transferred to medical observation for isolation. The CDC conducted an epidemiological investigation on patients, collected samples and sent them to provincial and national professional institutions for testing. Combined with the results of epidemiological investigations, clinical symptoms, and laboratory tests, the diagnostic expert group of the National Health and Health Committee Confirmed. The city has organized all-out treatment, and currently the 3 patients are in stable condition. 　　Experts judged that it is currently in the season of high incidence of respiratory infectious diseases in winter and spring. It is also the Spring Festival holiday. Frequent personnel movements and the risk of new cases of coronavirus infection entering Zhuhai will continue to increase. 　　Zhuhai Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government attach great importance to the prevention and control of new coronavirus-infected pneumonia. The main leaders of the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government convened the main leaders of the districts and the heads of the joint prevention and control departments to study and deploy prevention and control work. Under the guidance of the group, patient treatment and epidemic prevention and control were carried out in all directions. The first is to set up a joint prevention and control work leading group headed by the mayor, and set up 6 special working groups and 8 professional and technical groups to make every effort to ensure the protection of people and property. The second is to organize the city's medical forces to treat patients, set up designated hospitals, and set up a multidisciplinary treatment expert group. The third is to strictly screen and track close contacts and medical observations, increase case screening, and establish a "daily report, zero report" system. The fourth is to continue to carry out unified patriotic health actions in the city, focusing on increasing the environmental improvement of densely populated public places such as farmers' markets, stations, terminals, airports, and tourist attractions. Fifth, set up multiple supervision and law enforcement teams to supervise and inspect the prevention and control work of various districts and departments to ensure that prevention and control measures are put in place. 　　Experts reminded that citizens should take good personal hygiene protection, pay attention to maintaining indoor environmental hygiene and air circulation, and try to minimize activities in public places with no air circulation or dense crowds. Wear a face mask or cover your mouth and nose with tissues or clothing when you have a cough or sneeze to reduce the spread of germs. Pay close attention to symptoms such as fever and cough. If you have fever or respiratory infection, please go to a medical institution in time. http://wsjkj.zhuhai.gov.cn/zwgk/tzgg/content/post_2461447.html

Three new cases of pneumonia infected with coronavirus confirmed in Zhuhai Source: This website Post time: 2020-01-20 21:37 　　On January 20th, the National Health and Health Commission confirmed three confirmed cases of pneumonia in a new type of coronavirus infection in Zhuhai. 　　The patient was a family of three: father (78 years old), mother (76 years old) and daughter (49 years old). The parents took the high-speed rail from Wuhan to their daughter's house on January 11th. On January 15th, the father felt unwell and went to the clinic. January A suspected case of pneumonia with a new coronavirus infection was initially diagnosed on the 17th and transferred to the CUHK Fifth Hospital for isolation and treatment. The mother and daughter developed fever and other symptoms. On the 18th, they were transferred to medical observation for isolation. The CDC conducted an epidemiological investigation on patients, collected samples and sent them to provincial and national professional institutions for testing. Combined with the results of epidemiological investigations, clinical symptoms, and laboratory tests, the diagnostic expert group of the National Health and Health Committee Confirmed. The city has organized all-out treatment, and currently the 3 patients are in stable condition. 　　Experts judged that it is currently in the season of high incidence of respiratory infectious diseases in winter and spring. It is also the Spring Festival holiday. Frequent personnel movements and the risk of new cases of coronavirus infection entering Zhuhai will continue to increase. 　　Zhuhai Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government attach great importance to the prevention and control of new coronavirus-infected pneumonia. The main leaders of the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government convened the main leaders of the districts and the heads of the joint prevention and control departments to study and deploy prevention and control work. Under the guidance of the group, patient treatment and epidemic prevention and control were carried out in all directions. The first is to set up a joint prevention and control work leading group headed by the mayor, and set up 6 special working groups and 8 professional and technical groups to make every effort to ensure the protection of people and property. The second is to organize the city's medical forces to treat patients, set up designated hospitals, and set up a multidisciplinary treatment expert group. The third is to strictly screen and track close contacts and medical observations, increase case screening, and establish a "daily report, zero report" system. The fourth is to continue to carry out unified patriotic health actions in the city, focusing on increasing the environmental improvement of densely populated public places such as farmers' markets, stations, terminals, airports, and tourist attractions. Fifth, set up multiple supervision and law enforcement teams to supervise and inspect the prevention and control work of various districts and departments to ensure that prevention and control measures are put in place. 　　Experts reminded that citizens should take good personal hygiene protection, pay attention to maintaining indoor environmental hygiene and air circulation, and try to minimize activities in public places with no air circulation or dense crowds. Wear a face mask or cover your mouth and nose with tissues or clothing when you have a cough or sneeze to reduce the spread of germs. Pay close attention to symptoms such as fever and cough. If you have fever or respiratory infection, please go to a medical institution in time. http://wsjkj.zhuhai.gov.cn/zwgk/tzgg/content/post_2461447.html

On 20 January 2020, National IHR Focal Point (NFP) for Republic of Korea reported the first case of novel coronavirus in the Republic of Korea. The case is a 35-year-old female, Chinese national, residing in Wuhan, Hubei province in China. The case-patient had developed fever, chill, and muscle pain on 18 January while in Wuhan. She visited a local hospital in Wuhan and was initially diagnosed with a cold. On 19 January , the case-patient was detected with fever (38.3 °C) upon arrival at the Incheon International Airport. The case-patient was transferred to a national designated isolation hospital for testing and treatment. She was tested positive for pancoronavirus reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay, and subsequently was confirmed positive for novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) on 20 January by sequencing at the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC). Upon detection, the patient had chills, runny nose, and muscle pain. View the full article

Wuhan Municipal Commission of Health and Health on pneumonia of new coronavirus infection From 12:00 on January 19, 2020 to 14:00 on January 19, 2020, there was one death, no discharged cases and no new cases. The deceased, Chen, male, 89 years old, developed symptoms on January 13 , 2020, was admitted to the hospital for severe breathing difficulties on January 18, and died on January 19 at 23:39 . Patients have basic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, coronary heart disease, and frequent ventricular premature beats. As of 24:00 on January 19, 198 cases of pneumonia of new coronavirus infection have been reported in our city, 25 cases have been cured and 4 cases have been discharged. Currently, 169 patients are still being treated in the hospital, of which 35 are critically ill and 9 are critically ill. They are all under isolation treatment at designated medical institutions in Wuhan. http://wjw.wuhan.gov.cn/front/web/showDetail/2020012109083

The deceased, Chen, male, 89 years old, developed symptoms on January 13 , 2020, was admitted to the hospital for severe breathing difficulties on January 18, and died on January 19 at 23:39 . Patients have basic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, coronary heart disease, and frequent ventricular premature beats. http://wjw.wuhan.gov.cn/front/web/showDetail/2020012109083

China’s post-Sars reporting system may explain long delays in announcing new cases of Wuhan virus The recent spike in the number of confirmed cases has prompted questions about the process, but medical specialists say the admin involved may be the reason it takes so long One health official in Guangdong province said confirmation from the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in Beijing is needed before they can be announced Mimi Lau,William Zheng,Alice Yan Published: 11:15pm, 20 Jan, 2020 More than 130 new cases have been confirmed in Wuhan. Photo: Getty Images A rigorous testing and reporting system that China established following the Sars outbreak more than a decade ago is the most probable explanation for the long delays in confirming new cases of the virus that originated in Wuhan, according to medical specialists. The sudden surge in confirmed cases over the past few days – including more than 130 in Wuhan along with the first instances in Beijing and Guangdong province – have raised questions about the robustness of China’s reporting system for communicable diseases and whether mainland officials are willing to share information about the strain of pneumonia. Professor David Hui Shu-cheong, an infectious diseases specialist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said confirmation for suspected cases of the novel coronavirus was often delayed because it required tests in a separate laboratory to avoid errors. “I am not familiar with mainland’s reporting mechanism. But I understand that the genomics sequence was not submitted to the World Health Organisation until the 12th [of January] and it takes two days for reagents to be generated for the diagnostic test kits before they can be distributed to local public health institutions,” Hui said. New China virus likely at human transmission stage as infections spread, doctors say 20 Jan 2020 “That’s why we saw a sudden surge of diagnosed cases over the weekend as local health institutions also received the diagnostic kits in batches. “At least in Hong Kong, a delayed confirmation is most certainly expected as it takes two positive results done in two laboratories before it can be publicly declared. But it might even be more complicated for cases in China as it involves multiple levels of administration,” he added. One of the Guangdong cases involved a 66-year-old man who started showing symptoms of fever in Shenzhen on January 3 after a visit to Wuhan. He sought medical consultation in the border city the following day and was quarantined a week later. SUBSCRIBE LUNAR Get updates direct to your inbox SUBMIT By registering, you agree to our T&C and Privacy Policy But it was not until Sunday that the authorities could confirm that the patient had contracted the virus. A Guangdong health official who requested anonymity as he was not authorised to speak publicly confirmed that all health workers are required to follow a time-consuming three-step confirmation protocol. “Actually it only takes a short while to get virus results in local hospitals with the test kits. What is time-consuming is that suspected cases are required to wait for a second positive result from the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention [in Beijing] before a panel of experts can go ahead with clinical diagnosis. Only after these three steps are completed can we publicly declare any confirmed case,” the official said. Professor David Hui Shu-cheong said suspected cases needed a second lab test to avoid errors. Photo: Felix Wong China has learned a painful lesson about the lack of transparency and emergency planning during the severe acute respiratory syndrome crisis, which exposed its lack of an effective central command system to coordinate and control the reporting of diseases and the sharing of information. Since then, China has spent billions of yuan on training and rebuilding its infectious disease control system and on strengthening the information-sharing networks both domestically and with international bodies such as the World Health Organisation. By 2006, it had established a national, real-time and internet-based reporting system for communicable diseases and public health emergencies. China says infections spreading as it reports third death from Wuhan virus 20 Jan 2020 On Monday, mainland Chinese internet users started to express increasing concern about the spread of the disease, which has so far killed three people. “How can we avoid a large-scale outbreak? It is too difficult as the Spring Festival travel peak season is under way,” one wrote on the social media network Weibo. “The health authorities issued statements many times [about the epidemic] these days, and this shows that the situation is becoming more serious. I am really scared,” another person wrote. A financial worker in Guangzhou surnamed Yuan said he was worried about the arrival of a relative of his wife from Wuhan to celebrate Lunar New Year. “We will pick him up at the railway station and have dinner on New Year’s Eve,” he said. “It’s a dedicate matter: the relative insists on visiting us and it would not be polite for us to say no.” The new cases coincide with the peak travel season for Lunar New Year. Photo: AFP Zhou Hongming, a university teacher in Wuhan, said she did not feel there is a panic in the city, although the local health authorities have stepped up a campaign to remind people of the importance of hygiene. “I think that after Sars, people are less alarmed [about infectious diseases] than before,” she said. She said local people only started paying more attention to the epidemic on Sunday after the authorities reported a significant increase of confirmed cases. “I heard that face masks are beginning to run out of stock,” said Zhou. China coronavirus: Beijing breaks its silence, but only to ‘deny rumours’ 20 Jan 2020 But a Beijing-based media worker who is a Wuhan native said that when he returned to his hometown on Saturday, he was the only one wearing a mask at the railway station. “Wuhan’s epidemic prevention and control measures do not seem to have been well implemented. The public generally has relatively low awareness of the danger of the infection,” said the man who did not want to be named. “A local friend said he saw many people living in other cities sharing information about new confirmed cases in Beijing and Guangdong on social media. My friend jokingly said that people from outside Wuhan are more frightened than Wuhan residents.” Additional reporting by Alice Yan https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3046913/chinas-post-sars-reporting-system-may-explain-long-delays

15 Chinese medical workers confirmed infected with coronavirus Source: Xinhua| 2020-01-21 03:29:32|Editor: huaxia WUHAN, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- Fifteen medical workers in central Chinese city of Wuhan have been diagnosed with pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), plus one suspected case, the municipal health commission reported early Tuesday morning. One of the 16 patients is in critical condition while the rest are in stable condition. All of them are being treated in isolation, the commission said. Medical staff are at the forefront in the prevention and control of the epidemic, the commission said, noting that local hospitals have stepped up efforts to control nosocomial infections, protect medical professionals and strengthened routine monitoring, with suspected cases receiving timely testing and treatment. A high-level expert team of China's National Health Commission have confirmed people-to-people transmission of the 2019-nCoV and infections among medical staff. As of 6 p.m. Monday, a total of 224 cases of pneumonia caused by 2019-nCoV had been reported in China. Of them, 217 had been confirmed, with 14 in Guangdong Province, five in Beijing and 198 in Wuhan where the first case was identified with a third death confirmed on Jan. 18. Enditem http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-01/21/c_138721955.htm

Human-to-human link to some cases of new China virus, Sars expert says Priority now must be to stop emergence of ‘super-spreader’, with one carrier already infecting more than a dozen medical personnel, specialist says Authorities in Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, report a third death and more than 130 new cases over the weekend Gigi Choy andAlice Yan Published: 9:40pm, 20 Jan, 2020 The central Chinese city of Wuhan reported more than 130 cases of the virus over the weekend alone. Photo: Weibo One of China’s leading specialists in communicable diseases has warned that human-to-human transmission is responsible for some cases of a previously unknown coronavirus that has killed three people in the Chinese city of Wuhan. After visiting the city, Zhong Nanshan, director of the State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease and a specialist in severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) , said human-to-human transmission was not only behind at least one confirmed case in Wuhan but also infections in two families in Guangdong province. He said 14 medical staff contracted the virus from one carrier. “The key to controlling the spread of the disease now is about preventing the emergence of a super-spreader [of the virus],” Zhong said, referring to infected patients who quickly help spread the virus, especially among medical workers. According to Zhong, a top priority now should be for Wuhan – a city of 11 million people in the central province of Hubei – to curb the disease’s spread, in part by banning people with symptoms from leaving the city. China’s post-Sars reporting system may explain long delays in announcing new cases of Wuhan virus 20 Jan 2020 He said that a number of the cases in Guangdong involved patients who had not travelled to Wuhan. “At present, there is no special cure for this new coronavirus and [we are] conducting some tests with animals,” Zhong said. “We expect the number of infected cases will increase over the Lunar New Year travel period and we need to prevent the emergence of a super-spreader of the virus.” SUBSCRIBE LUNAR Get updates direct to your inbox SUBMIT By registering, you agree to our T&C and Privacy Policy Zhong’s warning came as Chinese President Xi Jinping called on officials to do everything they could to stop the disease. State broadcaster CCTV quoted Xi as saying that the virus must be “resolutely contained” and “the safety of people’s lives and their physical health should be given top priority”. Premier Li Keqiang also announced the creation of a national leading group to coordinate the fight against the disease. The virus, which causes pneumonia-like symptoms and had sickened 218 people in China as of Monday night, is thought to have originated in a seafood and animal meat market in Wuhan. Earlier on Monday, the World Health Organisation (WHO) also warned that human-to-human transmission might have been behind the infection cases in China but it did not change its earlier advice that it did not see grounds to restrict travel to or trade with China. The WHO China office said a team of experts was meeting officials in Wuhan to discuss the outbreak. “The mission is part of ongoing information sharing between the government of China and the WHO,” a spokesman said. In statements via Twitter earlier on Monday, the WHO said: “An animal source seems the most likely primary source of this novel coronavirus outbreak, with some limited human-to-human transmission occurring between close contacts.” Wuhan medical authorities said on Monday that a third patient had died from the infection at a hospital in the city, while also announcing a jump of more than 130 new cases alone over the weekend, taking Wuhan’s total to 198. China reports third death from Wuhan virus and new cases of the mystery illness in other cities The number of new cases showed there was human-to-human transmission, Guan Yi, director of the State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases at the University of Hong Kong, Beijing-based news outlet Caixin reported on Monday. “I admit that the virus did not pass from person to person in the early stage, but the situation has evolved for more than a month, and the number of new cases has risen. ‘Human-to-human’ is no longer a word game,” Guan was quoted as saying. Guan’s work led to the identification of the Sars coronavirus, which killed more than 700 people around the world in a 2002-03 outbreak that originated in China, according to the university’s website. “The virus’ ability to spread and adapt to the population, as well as its onset and pathogenicity, is similar to the way Sars developed in the early stage,” Guan said in the Caixin report. “I hope we can learn from the lessons of Sars and hope we don’t approach prevention and control of the [current] situation in a similar way as Sars, otherwise it will negatively affect people and the world.” University of Hong Kong microbiologist Ho Pak-leung said the transmission methods and origins of the new cases on the mainland had not been disclosed. “That means it’s likely that those cases were spread through limited human-to-human transmission, which has some connection with the movement of people,” Ho said. “Wuhan’s top travel destinations are Bangkok, Hong Kong and Tokyo. With imported cases reported in two of those three cities, it is only a matter of time for Hong Kong to have a [confirmed] case.” Ho also welcomed the new measures unveiled by the Hong Kong government on Monday, which include health declaration forms at the airport for visitors arriving on direct flights from Wuhan, and a requirement for local doctors to report suspected cases among people who have visited Hubei – and not just Wuhan – in the last 14 days. Wuhan pneumonia: how the search for the source of the mystery illness unfolded 20 Jan 2020 China’s National Health Commission said five people in Beijing had been confirmed as infected , along with one in Shanghai and 14 in Guangdong, a province bordering Hong Kong. Another six people throughout the country were suspected as having the virus. Meanwhile, Taiwanese health authorities said a one-year-old boy suspected of having the virus was being treated in a hospital isolation ward. “Doctors have already sent the samples of the pathogen for testing, and the results will be known within days,” a spokeswoman for the Taiwan Centres for Disease Control said. Wuhan outbreak: Thailand confirms first case of virus outside China Reports that the virus was spreading raised particular concern with hundreds of millions of people travelling across China this week for the Lunar New Year holiday. Wuhan itself has a population of about 11 million people – more than New York or London – and is one of the country’s major rail hubs. The Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said on Saturday that the infection was “preventable and controllable”. The virus was not Sars, the centre said on Saturday. The WHO’s comments about some limited human-to-human transmission in the Wuhan virus is a shift from previous statements in which the body and China’s health authorities said they had found no evidence of human-to-human transmission but could not rule it out. In a written response to the South China Morning Post early on Monday, the WHO China office said there was “no clear evidence of sustained human-to-human transmission” and it had no information on medical staff being infected by the virus. “To date, Chinese authorities have reported no infections among health care workers, which is an indicator used to ascertain the transmissibility of a disease (or the degree to which a disease is contagious), as health care workers are among the more exposed groups,” it said. Wuhan virus: three US airports to screen passengers from China for deadly coronavirus outbreak 18 Jan 2020 The WHO said China had reported 139 new cases of the coronavirus to the organisation over the previous two days. The agency attributed the jump to “increased searching and testing” for the virus among people showing symptoms of respiratory illness. Confirmation of infections in other cities in China came as several countries and regions in Asia reported finding the virus in visitors since the Wuhan medical authorities first raised the alert on December 30 about what was then a mystery illness. South Korea confirmed on Monday that a woman who had arrived from Wuhan had the virus. Two Chinese tourists in Thailand and a Chinese man working in Japan had previously been confirmed as infected. Authorities in Singapore, Vietnam, Nepal, Hong Kong and Taiwan have said they are monitoring a number of suspected cases. No deaths have been reported overseas among the infected. China identifies new coronavirus behind Wuhan pneumonia outbreak The US on Friday began screening travellers from Wuhan at airports in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles. “I think that this is a situation where we’re going to see additional cases all around the world as people look for it more,” Nancy Messonnier, director of the US’ National Centre for Immunisation and Respiratory Diseases, a branch of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said on Saturday. “I think it’s highly plausible that there will be at least a case in the United States, and that’s the reason we’re moving forward so quickly with this screening,” she said, adding that the threat to the general public was “low”. In its statement, the WHO said it “is proposing studies on the novel coronavirus that can be done in China and elsewhere to better understand transmission, risk factors and where the virus is”. “These studies take time and resources” it said, noting that some of these studies were already under way. Messonnier, at the CDC, said: “We don’t have all the information at the level of detail that our scientists would prefer. You know CDC scientists, and we, want to see every titbit of data ourselves, and that’s not the situation we’re in right now. We are in more of a waiting mode, waiting to see what our colleagues from China are releasing.” Wuhan’s health authorities said the city’s third death from the virus had occurred on Saturday, and reported 59 new infections on Saturday and 77 on Sunday. The two infected people in Beijing had recently travelled to Wuhan, according to the Daxing district health committee. They were under quarantine in hospital and in a stable condition, The Beijing News reported. People who had come into close contact with the two patients were under medical observation and had not had fever-like symptoms, the local health authority said. The health authority for Shenzhen in the southern province of Guangdong said its first confirmed case was a 66-year-old man. He had visited relatives in Wuhan at the end of last month and developed fever and fatigue on January 3. He went to a doctor in Shenzhen the next day, then was admitted to hospital, where he was quarantined, on January 11. His condition was stable and the authority was monitoring people who had been in close contact with him, the authority said. The Zhejiang health authority said that the five patients it had reported as showing symptoms had recently visited Wuhan. In Malaysia, authorities were on “high alert” for the disease, with response teams at all international arrival entry points. Additional reporting by Lawrence Chung in Taipei and Victor Ting This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as: Wuhan virus ‘is now spreading via people’ https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3046908/new-china-virus-likely-human-transmission-stage-infections

After visiting the city, Zhong Nanshan, director of the State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease and a specialist in severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) , said human-to-human transmission was not only behind at least one confirmed case in Wuhan but also infections in two families in Guangdong province. He said 14 medical staff contracted the virus from one carrier. “The key to controlling the spread of the disease now is about preventing the emergence of a super-spreader [of the virus],” Zhong said, referring to infected patients who quickly help spread the virus, especially among medical workers. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3046908/new-china-virus-likely-human-transmission-stage-infections

Human-to-human link to some cases of new China virus, Sars expert says Priority now must be to stop emergence of ‘super-spreader’, with one carrier already infecting more than a dozen medical personnel, specialist says Authorities in Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, report a third death and more than 130 new cases over the weekend Gigi Choy andAlice Yan Published: 9:40pm, 20 Jan, 2020 The central Chinese city of Wuhan reported more than 130 cases of the virus over the weekend alone. Photo: Weibo One of China’s leading specialists in communicable diseases has warned that human-to-human transmission is responsible for some cases of a previously unknown coronavirus that has killed three people in the Chinese city of Wuhan. After visiting the city, Zhong Nanshan, director of the State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease and a specialist in severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) , said human-to-human transmission was not only behind at least one confirmed case in Wuhan but also infections in two families in Guangdong province. He said 14 medical staff contracted the virus from one carrier. “The key to controlling the spread of the disease now is about preventing the emergence of a super-spreader [of the virus],” Zhong said, referring to infected patients who quickly help spread the virus, especially among medical workers. According to Zhong, a top priority now should be for Wuhan – a city of 11 million people in the central province of Hubei – to curb the disease’s spread, in part by banning people with symptoms from leaving the city. China’s post-Sars reporting system may explain long delays in announcing new cases of Wuhan virus 20 Jan 2020 He said that a number of the cases in Guangdong involved patients who had not travelled to Wuhan. “At present, there is no special cure for this new coronavirus and [we are] conducting some tests with animals,” Zhong said. “We expect the number of infected cases will increase over the Lunar New Year travel period and we need to prevent the emergence of a super-spreader of the virus.” SUBSCRIBE LUNAR Get updates direct to your inbox SUBMIT By registering, you agree to our T&C and Privacy Policy Zhong’s warning came as Chinese President Xi Jinping called on officials to do everything they could to stop the disease. State broadcaster CCTV quoted Xi as saying that the virus must be “resolutely contained” and “the safety of people’s lives and their physical health should be given top priority”. Premier Li Keqiang also announced the creation of a national leading group to coordinate the fight against the disease. The virus, which causes pneumonia-like symptoms and had sickened 218 people in China as of Monday night, is thought to have originated in a seafood and animal meat market in Wuhan. Earlier on Monday, the World Health Organisation (WHO) also warned that human-to-human transmission might have been behind the infection cases in China but it did not change its earlier advice that it did not see grounds to restrict travel to or trade with China. The WHO China office said a team of experts was meeting officials in Wuhan to discuss the outbreak. “The mission is part of ongoing information sharing between the government of China and the WHO,” a spokesman said. In statements via Twitter earlier on Monday, the WHO said: “An animal source seems the most likely primary source of this novel coronavirus outbreak, with some limited human-to-human transmission occurring between close contacts.” Wuhan medical authorities said on Monday that a third patient had died from the infection at a hospital in the city, while also announcing a jump of more than 130 new cases alone over the weekend, taking Wuhan’s total to 198. China reports third death from Wuhan virus and new cases of the mystery illness in other cities The number of new cases showed there was human-to-human transmission, Guan Yi, director of the State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases at the University of Hong Kong, Beijing-based news outlet Caixin reported on Monday. “I admit that the virus did not pass from person to person in the early stage, but the situation has evolved for more than a month, and the number of new cases has risen. ‘Human-to-human’ is no longer a word game,” Guan was quoted as saying. Guan’s work led to the identification of the Sars coronavirus, which killed more than 700 people around the world in a 2002-03 outbreak that originated in China, according to the university’s website. “The virus’ ability to spread and adapt to the population, as well as its onset and pathogenicity, is similar to the way Sars developed in the early stage,” Guan said in the Caixin report. “I hope we can learn from the lessons of Sars and hope we don’t approach prevention and control of the [current] situation in a similar way as Sars, otherwise it will negatively affect people and the world.” University of Hong Kong microbiologist Ho Pak-leung said the transmission methods and origins of the new cases on the mainland had not been disclosed. “That means it’s likely that those cases were spread through limited human-to-human transmission, which has some connection with the movement of people,” Ho said. “Wuhan’s top travel destinations are Bangkok, Hong Kong and Tokyo. With imported cases reported in two of those three cities, it is only a matter of time for Hong Kong to have a [confirmed] case.” Ho also welcomed the new measures unveiled by the Hong Kong government on Monday, which include health declaration forms at the airport for visitors arriving on direct flights from Wuhan, and a requirement for local doctors to report suspected cases among people who have visited Hubei – and not just Wuhan – in the last 14 days. Wuhan pneumonia: how the search for the source of the mystery illness unfolded 20 Jan 2020 China’s National Health Commission said five people in Beijing had been confirmed as infected , along with one in Shanghai and 14 in Guangdong, a province bordering Hong Kong. Another six people throughout the country were suspected as having the virus. Meanwhile, Taiwanese health authorities said a one-year-old boy suspected of having the virus was being treated in a hospital isolation ward. “Doctors have already sent the samples of the pathogen for testing, and the results will be known within days,” a spokeswoman for the Taiwan Centres for Disease Control said. Wuhan outbreak: Thailand confirms first case of virus outside China Reports that the virus was spreading raised particular concern with hundreds of millions of people travelling across China this week for the Lunar New Year holiday. Wuhan itself has a population of about 11 million people – more than New York or London – and is one of the country’s major rail hubs. The Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said on Saturday that the infection was “preventable and controllable”. The virus was not Sars, the centre said on Saturday. The WHO’s comments about some limited human-to-human transmission in the Wuhan virus is a shift from previous statements in which the body and China’s health authorities said they had found no evidence of human-to-human transmission but could not rule it out. In a written response to the South China Morning Post early on Monday, the WHO China office said there was “no clear evidence of sustained human-to-human transmission” and it had no information on medical staff being infected by the virus. “To date, Chinese authorities have reported no infections among health care workers, which is an indicator used to ascertain the transmissibility of a disease (or the degree to which a disease is contagious), as health care workers are among the more exposed groups,” it said. Wuhan virus: three US airports to screen passengers from China for deadly coronavirus outbreak 18 Jan 2020 The WHO said China had reported 139 new cases of the coronavirus to the organisation over the previous two days. The agency attributed the jump to “increased searching and testing” for the virus among people showing symptoms of respiratory illness. Confirmation of infections in other cities in China came as several countries and regions in Asia reported finding the virus in visitors since the Wuhan medical authorities first raised the alert on December 30 about what was then a mystery illness. South Korea confirmed on Monday that a woman who had arrived from Wuhan had the virus. Two Chinese tourists in Thailand and a Chinese man working in Japan had previously been confirmed as infected. Authorities in Singapore, Vietnam, Nepal, Hong Kong and Taiwan have said they are monitoring a number of suspected cases. No deaths have been reported overseas among the infected. China identifies new coronavirus behind Wuhan pneumonia outbreak The US on Friday began screening travellers from Wuhan at airports in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles. “I think that this is a situation where we’re going to see additional cases all around the world as people look for it more,” Nancy Messonnier, director of the US’ National Centre for Immunisation and Respiratory Diseases, a branch of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said on Saturday. “I think it’s highly plausible that there will be at least a case in the United States, and that’s the reason we’re moving forward so quickly with this screening,” she said, adding that the threat to the general public was “low”. In its statement, the WHO said it “is proposing studies on the novel coronavirus that can be done in China and elsewhere to better understand transmission, risk factors and where the virus is”. “These studies take time and resources” it said, noting that some of these studies were already under way. Messonnier, at the CDC, said: “We don’t have all the information at the level of detail that our scientists would prefer. You know CDC scientists, and we, want to see every titbit of data ourselves, and that’s not the situation we’re in right now. We are in more of a waiting mode, waiting to see what our colleagues from China are releasing.” Wuhan’s health authorities said the city’s third death from the virus had occurred on Saturday, and reported 59 new infections on Saturday and 77 on Sunday. The two infected people in Beijing had recently travelled to Wuhan, according to the Daxing district health committee. They were under quarantine in hospital and in a stable condition, The Beijing News reported. People who had come into close contact with the two patients were under medical observation and had not had fever-like symptoms, the local health authority said. The health authority for Shenzhen in the southern province of Guangdong said its first confirmed case was a 66-year-old man. He had visited relatives in Wuhan at the end of last month and developed fever and fatigue on January 3. He went to a doctor in Shenzhen the next day, then was admitted to hospital, where he was quarantined, on January 11. His condition was stable and the authority was monitoring people who had been in close contact with him, the authority said. The Zhejiang health authority said that the five patients it had reported as showing symptoms had recently visited Wuhan. In Malaysia, authorities were on “high alert” for the disease, with response teams at all international arrival entry points. Additional reporting by Lawrence Chung in Taipei and Victor Ting This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as: Wuhan virus ‘is now spreading via people’ https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3046908/new-china-virus-likely-human-transmission-stage-infections

After visiting the city, Zhong Nanshan, director of the State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease and a specialist in severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) , said human-to-human transmission was not only behind at least one confirmed case in Wuhan but also infections in two families in Guangdong province. He said 14 medical staff contracted the virus from one carrier. “The key to controlling the spread of the disease now is about preventing the emergence of a super-spreader [of the virus],” Zhong said, referring to infected patients who quickly help spread the virus, especially among medical workers. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3046908/new-china-virus-likely-human-transmission-stage-infections

1 2019-nCoV patient reportedly infected 14 Healthcare Workers at Tongji Hospital in Wuhan, China

New virus in Wuhan: China announces first confirmed case outside Wuhan, South Korea finds confirmed case January 20, 2020 Share platform Weibo Sharing platform Renren Share platform email share it Confirmed cases of pneumonia in Wuhan continue to increase and spread to many Asian countries The epidemic of the new coronavirus pneumonia found in Wuhan, China is still severe, and the number of confirmed cases continues to increase. Among them, Wuhan City reported 136 confirmed cases, and 2 and 1 cases were confirmed in the capital Beijing and Shenzhen, Guangdong, respectively. In addition, one confirmed case from China has been found in South Korea. On Monday (January 20), Yonhap News Agency quoted sources from the Korea Disease Management Headquarters as saying that a Chinese woman who entered China from Wuhan, China through the Incheon International Airport on the 19th was diagnosed with a new type of coronavirus pneumonia called Wuhan pneumonia. The patient was isolated at Incheon Airport for symptoms such as high fever and is currently being transferred to a medical facility for treatment. In the early morning of January 20, the Wuhan Health Committee reported that 59 and 77 confirmed cases were newly identified in the city in the past two days, of which one died, 36 were critically ill and 36 were critically ill. This caused the cumulative number of confirmed cases in Wuhan to soar to 198, 3 died, and 25 were cured and discharged. In addition, Beijing and Shenzhen also reported 2 and 1 confirmed cases in the early hours of Monday (January 20), respectively. This is the first time that China has reported an epidemic situation outside Wuhan. According to official reports, patients in Beijing and Shenzhen both have a history of traveling to Wuhan. China's National Health Commission said on Sunday (January 19) that the authorities issued a new coronavirus nucleic acid test kit, requiring localities to strengthen testing. This is considered to be one of the reasons for the marked increase in the number of confirmed cases in recent days. The Chinese Health Commission also said that “experts believe that the current epidemic situation is still preventable and controllable”, but the source of new coronavirus infections has not been found, the epidemic transmission channels have not been fully grasped, and virus mutations still need to be closely monitored. Several other sources told the BBC that at Tongji Hospital in Wuhan, medical staff were suspected of contracting the virus and are currently conducting quarantine observation. Tongji Hospital and the Health Commission did not respond to the BBC's inquiry request. Picture copyrightAFP Image captionThe main outbreak of pneumonia was concentrated in Wuhan, Hubei. Hong Kong's "South China Morning Post" earlier reported that suspected cases of infection were also found in Shanghai, China, and the Shanghai Health and Medical Commission said that it was "strengthening the screening of suspicious cases". Earlier, in a study conducted by the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College London, British researchers used a model to estimate that the virus could have "infected thousands". Currently, the virus has been confirmed in Japan and Thailand, respectively, in one and two cases. Singapore and Hong Kong have been inspecting passengers from Wuhan, and US authorities have announced similar measures at three major airports in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York starting Friday (January 17). What kind of virus is this? Picture copyrightGETTY IMAGES Image captionCoronaviruses are a broad family of viruses, but only six (now this new virus will be the seventh) are known to infect humans. Officials in China and the World Health Organization (WHO) have determined that the virus is a coronavirus. Coronaviruses are a broad family of viruses, but only six (and this time the new virus will be the seventh) are known to infect humans. In 2002, there was an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS, or "SARS" or "SARS") in China. The disease was also caused by a coronavirus. A total of 8098 people were infected and 774 died. Dr Josie Golding of the Wellcome Trust said: "I have a deep memory of SARS, and many of my fears come from here, but we have questions about how to deal with this type of disease Is much more prepared than in the past. " But scientists still don't know where the virus came from, although researchers generally believe that it should be similar to previous outbreaks and come from an animal. "SARS" spread from civets to people. Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), which has 2,494 recorded cases and 858 deaths since its appearance in 2012, was passed on to humans from unimodal camels. How serious? Coronaviruses can cause symptoms ranging from a mild cold to death, and the strength of this new virus seems to be somewhere in between. "When we saw a new coronavirus, we wanted to know how severe the symptoms were-this time more severe than a cold-like symptom, and this was worrying, but it wasn't like 'SARS'. Serious, "said Prof Mark Woolhouse of the University of Edinburgh. In addition to pneumonia, the two cases that had previously died in Wuhan included severe myocarditis and abdominal tumors. Is it passed from person to person? Picture copyrightGETTY IMAGES Image captionThe epidemic started in Wuhan, a city in central China. There is widespread concern about whether the new coronavirus will spread from person to person. China has previously stated that there is no clear evidence that it will be "person-to-person." The WHO has also stated that it is difficult to determine whether an infected person became ill from exposure to the same source of infection or whether one person transmitted the virus to another. But for now, things seem to be changing. The early cases were mostly merchants and employees of Wuhan South China Seafood Wholesale Market, but many of the confirmed cases discovered later did not have a history of going to the market. The World Health Organization told the BBC on Monday (January 20) that at present, animals are likely to be the original source of the infection, but limited "human-to-human transmission" has subsequently occurred between close contacts. Officials in Wuhan also said that at present it is not possible to rule out the possibility of limited "people-to-people", but the risk of continued "people-to-people" is low. Wang Yuedan, a deputy director of the Department of Immunology at Peking University who has been involved in SARS research, told the BBC earlier that the possibility of "human-to-human transmission" is extremely high. He said that SARS and MERS, which are also coronaviruses, can be transmitted from person to person. In addition, several patients, including those diagnosed in Japan, have also claimed that they have not visited the seafood market. https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/chinese-news-51171551

Several other sources told the BBC that at Tongji Hospital in Wuhan, medical staff were suspected of contracting the virus and are currently conducting quarantine observation. Tongji Hospital and the Health Commission did not respond to the BBC's inquiry request. https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/chinese-news-51171551

Yitsing Wang‏ @yitsingw 35m35 minutes ago More We exclusively confirmed the infection of medical workers in #Wuhan yesterday and now the expert from China's National Health Commission eventually acknowledged that 14 medical workers have been infected. Mostly in two hospitals Tongji and Union.

15 suspected cases of new coronavirus infection in 15 medical staff in Wuhan 2020-01-21 02:06:14 Source: CCTV News (Original Title: 15 Medical Staff in Wuhan Infected with New Coronavirus) [Fifteen medical staff in Wuhan infected with the new coronavirus] According to Wuhan Municipal Health and Health Commission: At present, a total of 15 medical staff in Wuhan have been diagnosed with pneumonia cases of new coronavirus infection, and another suspected case. Of the 16 patients, 1 was critically ill, and the rest were in stable condition and had been treated in isolation. http://www.kaixian.tv/gd/2020/0121/239945.html

Media reports indicate that there is 15 confirmed and 1 Suspected cases of healthcare workers infected in 2 hospitals in Wuhan. The hospitals are Tongji and Union. One is in Critical Condition.

WHO Media advisory International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on novel coronavirus in China GENEVA 20 January 2020---- World Health Organization Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus will convene an Emergency Committee on the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) under the International Health Regulations (IHR). The Committee will meet on Wednesday, 22 January 2020, in Geneva to ascertain whether the outbreak constitutes a public health emergency of international concern, and what recommendations should be made to manage it.More details to follow.Background links:International Health Regulationshttp://www.who.int/topics/international_health_regulations/en/Q&A on the International Health Regulationshttp://www.who.int/features/qa/emergency-committees/en/Information about the outbreakhttps://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirusMedia contactsTarik JašarevićSpokesperson / Media RelationsMob: +41 793 676 214Tel: +41 22 791 5099E-mail: [email protected] ChaibMob: +41794755556Tel: + 41227913228Email: [email protected]@who.intBest regards,WHO Media Team

The WHO Director General has convened an emergency committee which will meet in Geneva, Switzerland on Wednesday January 22, 2020 in order to assess whether the 2019-nCoV outbreak meets the criteria of a PHEIC (Pubic Health Emergency of International Concern)

[China government website] Li Keqiang presided over the State Council executive meeting to further deploy pneumonia epidemic prevention and control of new coronavirus infection, etc. Li Keqiang presided over an executive meeting of the State CouncilFurther deployment of new coronavirus-infected pneumonia epidemic prevention and control requires effective and effective containment of the epidemicsituation Listening to poverty alleviation and reporting to the deployment to ensure victory in the fight against poverty   　　The Premier of the State Council, Li Keqiang, hosted an executive meeting of the State Council on January 20 to further deploy the prevention and control of pneumonia outbreaks of new coronavirus infections, and required effective and effective containment of the epidemic. life.　　The meeting pointed out that prevention and control of the epidemic has a bearing on the lives, health, and safety of the people. After the outbreak of pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus, the Party Central Committee and the State Council attached great importance to timely deployment of prevention and control. Relevant departments and local governments adopted a series of measures to strengthen the outbreak of fever and conduct full-coverage screening. The current diagnostic methods and diagnostic reagents are continuously optimized, and some suspected cases have been confirmed, and the number of cases has increased. At present, the Spring Festival is coming, and the flow of personnel is large. We must further strengthen prevention and control in a targeted manner. Relevant departments and localities must follow the arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, be highly responsible to the people, and go all out to scientifically and effectively control the epidemic. Firstly, pneumonia infected with a new type of coronavirus was incorporated into the management of infectious diseases according to law, and prevention and control was further improved in accordance with the multi-department joint prevention and control mechanism and emergency plans for public health emergencies. The second is to resolutely curb the spread of the epidemic. Implement territorial responsibility. Wuhan must strictly implement prevention and control measures, and close the relevant markets, wildlife control and temperature screening at airports, stations, and docks. All localities should implement necessary measures such as ventilation, disinfection, and body temperature measurement in key places and public transportation, and strengthen monitoring and pre-checking and triage to ensure that the epidemic situation is detected in a timely manner and effectively disposed of. The third is to implement early detection, early reporting, early isolation, early treatment, and centralized treatment measures, deploy capable personnel and medical resources, strengthen the protection of patients' medical treatment costs, and do their best to treat patients, especially those with severe illness. Strengthen prevention and control measures in various hospitals, strictly control nosocomial infections, and strengthen medical staff protection. Fourth, adhere to openness and transparency, timely and objectively inform the society of the epidemic situation and the progress of prevention and control work, and release authoritative information in a unified manner. Scientifically publicize the knowledge of epidemic protection and increase public awareness of self-protection. Strengthen communication and cooperation with the World Health Organization, relevant countries and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions. The fifth is to strengthen scientific research. Based on the identified pathogens, identify the source of infection and the route of transmission as soon as possible, closely track the changes in virus virulence and transmission, and make technical preparations to respond to changes in the epidemic. The meeting emphasized that all relevant parties, especially the medical system, should strengthen their on-duty duty during the Spring Festival, do a good job of emergency response, and effectively protect the people's health and safety.　　The meeting pointed out that in accordance with the arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, with the efforts of all parties, the task of eliminating poverty last year was fully completed. Now that the Spring Festival is approaching, it is necessary to do a good job of "sending warmth" to the needy and guaranteeing a basic life. This year is the year of decisive victory in poverty alleviation. We must further strengthen our responsibilities and work implementation to ensure that all remaining poor people and poor counties are lifted from poverty under the current standards. First, we must focus on the "three districts and three states" and other areas to fight deep poverty eradication. Supervise the poor counties and poor villages where work is difficult. Comprehensive policies such as old-age insurance, medical insurance, and minimum living insurance are adopted for the special poor groups such as the elderly, the sick, and the disabled. Second, we must increase poverty reduction efforts such as industry and employment, strengthen follow-up support for ex-situ poverty alleviation and relocation, cooperation between the eastern and western regions, and targeted poverty alleviation by central units to stimulate endogenous driving forces for the development of poor areas. Third, we must strictly evaluate the effectiveness of poverty alleviation. Fourth, we must maintain the overall stability of the existing assistance policies for the poor counties, poor villages and poor people who have withdrawn, and timely return the poor and newly-poor people to the assistance. Fifth, we must step up research and establish a long-term mechanism to resolve relative poverty and consolidate the results of poverty alleviation. (Source: China Government Network, January 20, 2020) http://www.nhc.gov.cn/wjw/xwdt/202001/042f72b352c646448c3a027ba98e1564.shtml

Sun Chunlan emphasized scientific and orderly prevention and control of the outbreak of epidemic prevention in a teleconference on pneumonia epidemic prevention and control of new coronavirus infection Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 20th. A teleconference on pneumonia epidemic prevention and control of new coronavirus infection was held in Beijing on the 20th. Sun Chunlan, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice premier of the State Council, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. She emphasized that it is necessary to thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping ’s important instructions, implement the requirements of Premier Li Keqiang and the executive meeting of the State Council, compact local control responsibilities, strengthen the implementation of prevention and control measures, and effectively protect the people ’s health and maintain normal production and living order.　　Sun Chunlan pointed out that since the outbreak, relevant departments and localities have seriously implemented the decision-making arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, strengthened joint prevention and control, identified pathogens in a relatively short period of time, actively treated patients, and initiated prevention and control work in an orderly manner. At the same time, we must see that this is a new infectious disease. With the establishment of diagnostic methods, optimization of diagnostic reagents, and expansion of monitoring scope, the number of reported cases has increased, coupled with the large-scale movement of personnel during the Spring Festival, new changes have occurred in the prevention and control situation. . We must step up prevention and control efforts to prevent the spread of the epidemic.　　Sun Chunlan emphasized that pneumonitis infected by the new coronavirus has been included in Class B infectious diseases and adopted Class A management. Local governments must implement government responsibilities, strengthen territorial management, and implement various prevention and control measures such as epidemic monitoring, isolation and treatment, inspection and quarantine. Most of the confirmed cases are related to Wuhan, and Wuhan will take more stringent measures to prevent internal proliferation and prevent external export. Strengthen scientific research on prevention and control technologies, adhere to the integration of traditional Chinese and western medicine, and clarify diagnosis and treatment procedures, effective treatment drugs, and rescue measures for critically ill patients as soon as possible. It is necessary to strictly implement the zero-report system, publicly and transparently release information, popularize prevention and control knowledge, and do a good job of communication and cooperation with the international community. (Source: Xinhuanet, January 20, 2020) http://www.nhc.gov.cn/wjw/xwdt/202001/679cddf24241476ca8817129f82605c5.shtml

http://wjw.wuhan.gov.cn/front/web/showDetail/2020012009078 Wuhan sets up a list of outpatient medical institutions and designated medical institutions Explanation: 1. There are 61 hot clinics in the city (including 41 in the central city area, 20 in the new city area, and 16 city management hospitals). 2. There are 9 designated medical institutions in the city (Among them, the designated medical institutions in the central urban area are the Municipal Jinyintan Hospital, the Municipal Pulmonary Hospital, and the Hankou Hospital; the designated medical institutions in the far urban area are the district people's hospitals). 3. 25 provincial and municipal joint medical treatment experts (including 5 from Tongji Hospital, 5 from Union Hospital, 3 from Provincial People's Hospital, 4 from Central South Hospital, 1 from City First Hospital, 1 from Central Hospital, and 3 from Municipal 1 person in the hospital, 1 person in the 4th hospital of the city, 2 persons in Wuhan Children's Hospital, 2 persons in the city Jinyintan Hospital). Prefecture Set up fever clinics Designated medical institutions Jiang'an District (8 fever clinics) Wuhan Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital Jinyintan Hospital, Lung Hospital, Hankou Hospital Central Theater General Hospital (Hankou Courtyard) Changhang General Hospital Wuhan No. 8 Hospital Wuhan Central Hospital Wuhan Hankou Hospital Wuhan Children's Hospital Wuhan No. 6 Hospital Jianghan District (5 fever clinics) Xie He Hospital Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Wuhan Central Hospital (Houhu Hospital District) Wuhan Red Cross Hospital Wuhan Asian Heart Hospital Qiaokou District (5 fever clinics) Huazhong University of Science Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College The Third People's Hospital of Hubei Province Wuhan First Hospital Wuhan Fourth Hospital Wuhan Pulmonary Hospital Hanyang District (4 fever clinics) Wuhan Fifth Hospital Jinyintan Hospital, Lung Hospital, Hankou Hospital Wuhan Hanyang Hospital Wuhan Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital (Hanyang District) Wuhan Longyang Hospital Wuchang District (9 fever clinics) Wuhan University People's Hospital Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University Tianyou Hospital Affiliated to Wuhan University of Science and Technology Hubei Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Wuhan Third Hospital Wuhan Wuchang Hospital Wuhan No. 7 Hospital Armed Police Corps Hospital of Hubei Province General Hospital of the Central Theater of the PLA Qingshan District (6 fever clinics) China Resources Wuhan Iron & Steel General Hospital Wuhan Puren Hospital Wuhan Wudong Hospital WISCO Second Staff Hospital Wuhan Ninth Hospital Wuhan Petrochemical Hospital Hongshan District (4 fever clinics) Wuhan Third Hospital (Optical Valley District) Hubei Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Guanggu District) Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Hubei Province Rongjun Hospital of Hubei Province Donghu High-tech Zone(2 fever clinics) Tongji Hospital Affiliated to Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology Jinyintan Hospital, Lung Hospital, Hankou Hospital Wuhan University People's Hospital (East Hospital) Donghu Scenic Area(1 fever clinic) Liyuan Hospital Affiliated to Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology Caidian District (4 fever clinics) Caidian District People's Hospital of Wuhan Caidian District People's Hospital Caidian District Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wuhan Wuhan Jihe Hospital Tongji Hospital Affiliated to Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology Jiangxia District (3 fever clinics) First People's Hospital of Jiangxia District, Wuhan First People's Hospital of Jiangxia District Wuhan Jiangxia District Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital Zhifang Street Community Health Service Center, Jiangxia District Dongxihu District (2 fever clinics) Wuhan Dongxihu District People's Hospital Dongxihu District People's Hospital Wuhan Taikang Hospital Xinzhou District (3 fever clinics) Wuhan Xinzhou District People's Hospital Xinzhou District People's Hospital Yangluo District of the Third People's Hospital of Hubei Province Wuhan Xinzhou District Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital Huangpi District (2 fever clinics) Huangpi District People's Hospital of Wuhan People's Hospital of Huanghua District Huangpi District Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of Wuhan Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone (Hannan District) (3 fever clinics) Union Hospital, West Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Hannan District People's Hospital Wuhan Yaxin General Hospital Hannan District People's Hospital of Wuhan

China confirms human-to-human transmission of new coronavirus: Xinhua 1 MIN READ (Reuters) - China’s National Health Commission confirmed on Monday that a new virus causing an outbreak of pneumonia in the country has been passed from person-to-person and has infected some medical staff, China’s official Xinhua news agency said. Xinhua reported that Zhong Nanshan, a respiratory expert and head of the health commission team investigating the outbreak, confirmed that two cases of infection in China’s Guangdong Province as due to human-to-human transmission. Reporting by Se Young Lee in Beijing and Kate Kelland in London; Editing by Toby Chopra https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia-commission/china-confirms-human-to-human-transmission-of-new-coronavirus-xinhua-idUSKBN1ZJ1SB

(4th LD) S. Korea reports 1st confirmed China coronavirus case, raises alert level National 18:15 January 20, 2020 SHARE LIKE SAVE PRINT FONT SIZE (ATTN: UPDATES with more details in paras 6) SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korea on Monday reported the first confirmed case of the China coronavirus amid concerns that a pneumonia-like illness is set to spread across China and Asia. A Chinese woman who arrived at Incheon International Airport on China Southern Airlines flight CZ6079 at 12:11 p.m. Sunday has tested positive for the virus, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC). Upon arrival, the woman was running a fever, experiencing respiratory problems and other symptoms, KCDC said. "She tested positive in the pancoronavirus polymerase chain reaction test that checks a person's DNA," the country's public health and safety agency said. A quarantine official (R) checks passengers arriving at South Korea's Incheon International Airport for signs of fever and other symptoms in this file photo taken on Jan. 9, 2020. (Yonhap) hide caption The 35-year-old resident arrived from the Chinese central city of Wuhan in Hubei Province -- where the virus appears to have originated -- on Sunday while en route to Japan in tune with the Lunar New Year holiday this week. The patient has since been quarantined at a designated isolation ward in Incheon, west of Seoul, for treatment after being detected during the quarantine inspection process at the airport. The agency said the cabin crew on the plane and the other passengers are being monitored for any symptoms, with 14 people being checked by medical personnel. Three other people who were placed in quarantine as a precautionary measure all tested negative for the pancoronavirus and were released. The agency said it has elevated the country's infectious disease alert level by one notch from "blue" to "yellow" and ordered local governments to strengthen monitoring. KCDC strongly advised people who visited China showing symptoms like fever and shortness of breath to visit nearby clinics or hospitals so they can be checked. Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun instructed his Cabinet to take all possible countermeasures to contain the spread of the virus, according to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). Chung ordered Minister of Health and Welfare Park Neung-hoo and the chief of the KCDC to completely quarantine and treat the patient after being briefed by Park on the situation, the office said. "Prime Minister Chung ordered that epidemiological investigations be quickly and thoroughly conducted to verify the movement and contact routes of the patient and contain the spread of the infectious disease," the PMO said. The prime minister also instructed his Cabinet to take all countermeasures in accordance with the government's manual and to make swift and transparent disclosures of all relevant information to help ease public anxiety. Seoul reported a suspected case earlier in the month, but that person was released after tests showed she was not infected with the same virus spreading in China. The Beijing government has reported a total of 201 infected patients, with the death toll at three. There have been two pneumonia-like cases in Thailand and a single case in Japan. Beijing has said the new strain of the coronavirus is not contagious between people, but the World Health Organization (WHO) is not ruling out person-to-person transmission under certain conditions, the center said. https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20200120004554320?section=national/national