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At 04:00 on January 25, 2020 , Hubei Province reported 323 new confirmed cases of pneumonia with new coronavirus infection, 13 new deaths, and 10 new discharges. among them: The first confirmed cases were reported in Huangshi City, Xiangyang City and Xianning City. New confirmed cases, 46 cases of the new Wuhan, Huangshi City, the new 31 cases of Xiangyang add 2 cases, 15 cases of new Shiyan City, Yichang City, the new 19 cases, 23 cases of the new city of Jingzhou, Jingmen 17 new cases, 43 new cases in Xianning City, 29 new cases in Xiaogan City, 58 new cases in Huanggang City, 31 new cases in Suizhou City, 6 new cases in Enshi Prefecture, 1 new case in Xiantao City, and 1 new case in Tianmen City. add 2 cases ; new deaths, new Wuhan seven cases, one case of Huangshi, Jingzhou City, two cases, one case of Jingmen City, Huanggang City, two cases ; new discharge cases, the new Wuhan eight cases, Two new cases were reported in Huanggang City. As of 24:00 on January 25, Hubei Province had reported a total of 1,052 confirmed cases of pneumonitis with new coronavirus infection, 129 severe cases, 52 deaths, and 42 discharged patients. among them: Among the confirmed cases , 618 were in Wuhan, 31 in Huangshi, 20 in Shiyan, 2 in Xiangyang, 20 in Yichang, 33 in Jingzhou, 38 in Jingmen, 1 in Ezhou, and 55 in Xiaogan. 122 cases of Huanggang, Xianning City, 43 cases, 36 cases of Suizhou, Enshi 17 cases, 11 cases of Xiantao, Tianmen five cases ; fatal cases, 45 cases in Wuhan City, one case of Huangshi City, Yichang City in 1 case, Jingzhou There were 2 cases in Beijing , 1 in Jingmen, and 2 in Huanggang . Among the discharged patients, there were 40 in Wuhan and 2 in Huanggang . At present, 7,989 close contacts have been traced, 1,085 medical observations have been lifted, and 6904 people are still receiving medical observations.

129 severe cases, 52 deaths, and 42 discharged patients http://wjw.hubei.gov.cn/fbjd/dtyw/202001/t20200126_2015054.shtml

Data as reported by: 25 January 2020 1 SUMMARY Situation update: • A total of 1,320 confirmed cases have been reported for novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) globally; • Of the 1,320 cases reported, 1,297 cases were reported from China, including Hong Kong SAR (5 confirmed cases), Macau SAR (2 confirmed cases) and Taipei (3 confirmed cases). • A total of 1,965 suspected cases have been reported from 20 Chinese provinces, regions and cities (excluding Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR and Taipei). • Twenty-three confirmed cases have been reported outside of China in nine countries (see table1). • Of these 23 confirmed cases, 21 had travel history to Wuhan City, China; one case in Australia had direct contact with a confirmed case from Wuhan while in China; and one confirmed case in Viet Nam had no travel history to any part of China as mentioned in situation report published on 24 January. According to preliminary investigations, this constitutes an instance of human to human transmission within a family. • Of the 1,287 confirmed cases (excluding Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR and Taipei), 237 cases have been reported as severely ill2 . • Forty-one deaths have been reported to date (39 deaths in Hubei province, one death in Hebei province and one in Heilongjiang province). • On 25 January 2020, the number of reported confirmed cases of 2019-nCoV has increased by 474 cases since the last situation report published on 24 January 2020. WHO’s assessment of the risk of this event has not changed since the last update (22 Jan): very high in China, high at the regional level and moderate at the global level. 20200125-SitRep-5-2019-nCoV.pdf

Unfortunately,the spread is exponential. There are plans to limit movement,but it seems that it is rather later because all of the major cities have already been seeded. Each day there are more deaths than discharges. Today in Hubei there were 10 discharges and 13 deaths, but the hospitals are full and I suspect deaths at homes will not be tested. Next few months seems to be a VERY long time. China is trying out antivirals. They say they are working, but the drugs are designed for retroviruses,not coronaviruses, so I am a bit skeptical.

Canadian Health officials say there is a "presumptive positive case" of the coronavirus in Toronto. Ontario's Chief Medical Health Officer confirms a man in his 50's travelled to Wuhan, China and became ill. He was taken to Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital and his condition is stable.

Toronto test is rapid and reliable Confident that Winnipeg will confirm

Private transportation from airport to home

Says 10% CFR was for severe cases (another bad answer)

Wife is currently asymptomatic

Direct transport to hospital. First responders had full PPE Screening with questionnaire

Much more prepared that 17 years ago (SARS)

The transmissions are serious and have produced 900 new cases on Thursday and 1500 new cases on Friday. All of the sequences released are very closely related to each other and a few matches on the most recent raise the possibility of adaptation. Release from a lab makes no sense because a viral release can't be controlled, so virus are not serious candidates for bio-weapons outside of parallel universes created online. I have been asked about bioweapons for a couple of decades and each outbreak with a novel virus generates the bioweapon speculation/propaganda,ranging from H5N1 to H7N9 to H1N1 swine flu to SARS to nCoV. Chance of bioweapon is same as prior viruses (Zero)

Identifying passengers within three rows on flight (Guangzhou to Toronto). Initial flight was Wuhan to Guangzhou.

Local lab confirmation this afternoon

Claim not easily transmitted (bad answer) Not in Toronto long Contacts in self isolation

Jan 21st flight Became ill and called 911 Ambulance first-responders fully protected

Launched website to provide updates https://www.ontario.ca/page/wuhan-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov

Case and contact management as soon as identified. More prepared than in the past (SARS, 2003).

Live stream https://globalnews.ca/news/6462626/coronavirus-toronto-hospital/

First nCoV positive for Canada.

China coronavirus: Wuhan medical staff being infected at much faster pace than reported as national death toll hits 26 Fifteen cases of the coronavirus have been officially reported among medical staff in the city, but doctors say the true number is far higher One says that ‘even now we don’t have enough protective gear’ but hospital workers have ‘no option’ but to carry on Josephine Ma,William Zheng,Mimi Lau Published: 7:00am, 24 Jan, 2020 Medical staff in protective gear at Wuhan’s central hospital. Photo: Reuters The Chinese Centre for Disease Control has identified 15 hospital staff as being infected in the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan city, but two sources with direct knowledge of the situation said doctors and nurses were being stricken at a much faster pace. The outbreak was first reported on December 31, less than four weeks ago, and identified as a previously unidentified pathogen on January 7. During most of that period, medical staff were treating patients in Wuhan hospitals without confirmation of human-to-human transmission. One patient – a suspected super-spreader, or highly virulent carrier of the disease – is thought to have infected 14 staff in one hospital alone, Yuen Kwok-yung, a doctor and infectious diseases specialist at Hong Kong University, said at a press conference. He visited Wuhan with other doctors at the invitation of the central government on Tuesday. A Wuhan doctor said at least one dormitory building at a hospital in the city was being used to house quarantined medical workers. “Definitely more than 15 medical workers are infected,” the doctor said, declining to give his name because he was not authorised to speak publicly about the issue. BREAKING NEWS ALERTS Get updates direct to your inbox SUBSCRIBE By registering, you agree to our T&C and Privacy Policy “Many were not initially informed about the potential for people-to-person transmission and even now we don’t have enough protective gear, test kits and other supplies. “We are worried about infected colleagues, but for the rest of us there is no other option but to carry on.” A hospital staff member looks out a window of the Wuhan Medical Treatment Centre. Photo: AP The Hubei Health Commission confirmed on Tuesday that five medical workers from the nearby city of Huanggang were also infected. Beijing took drastic action on Thursday to try to stop the spread of the virus by ordering a halt in public transport in and out of Wuhan, effectively an attempt to lock down the city of 11 million people. Official figures say the coronavirus has killed at least 26 people and infected hundreds more in Wuhan, as well as others across China and overseas after travellers carried it out of the city. An 80-year-old man in Hebei province was confirmed as a fatality, the 18th, on Thursday. The pathogen is a seemingly less virulent relative of the severe acute respiratory syndrome or Sars virus that originated in China in 2002 and killed more than 700 people worldwide the following year. As the infection rate surged in Wuhan over the past two weeks, doctors said the 14 hospitals in the city designated to handle the virus had been stretched to the limit as patients flooded in and medical staff fell ill. The situation highlighted the lack of readiness at the hospitals, they said. Another doctor, who helped treat Sars patients in Wuhan 17 years ago, said many of his former colleagues and classmates in medical school had fallen ill. “You can find infected medical practitioners in almost all major hospitals in Wuhan. The number is certainly far higher than 15,” said the doctor, who also declined to be named. The doctor is still in Wuhan but no longer practises medicine. Calls to the Wuhan health commission and major hospitals in Wuhan for comment were not picked up. The Wuhan doctors said that the city’s hospital system was overwhelmed and that there was a shortage of medical practitioners and protective kits for them. People’s Daily reported on Thursday night that Sichuan province is sending 130 medical staff to Wuhan to help cope with the outbreak. China’s leading Sars expert, Zhong Nanshan, told a press conference earlier this week that there were at least 15 cases of sickened medical staff in Wuhan. He said 14 of them were thought to have been infected by a single patient in the neurology department. One of the doctors in Wuhan said putting infected people in hospital with other patients was a major cause of the cross-infections that also reached medical staff. “The patients infected with the coronavirus were scattered across so many hospitals and they were not isolated at the time. Many medical practitioners became sick because of that,” one of the doctors said. He added that 17 years after Sars, there had been no major improvement in the front-line response to such outbreaks. One doctor said many members of staff had been infected because patients suffering from the coronavirus had been mixed in wards with other patients. Photo: Xinhua Separately, a 29-year-old Wuhan resident, who only gave his surname as Wang, said doctors had been reluctant to confirm his grandmother’s infection for a week, even though a CAT scan showed she had the pneumonia-like symptoms of the virus. She was placed in a regular ward in Hubei Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, together with patients suffering different ailments, he said. She was diagnosed with the coronavirus on Thursday morning. “Isolation did not begin for her until [then],” Wang said. Before then, “visitors had been allowed in and out of her wards with other patients as they pleased,” Wang said. “They even ran a second CAT on her and considered discharging her because there weren’t enough beds,” he added. Wang said he did not understand why doctors had not used a fast test kit for the virus that was made available a few days earlier. “For days, we felt that the doctors were dragging their feet on a diagnosis. All they would say was she had suspected symptoms of the coronavirus after running blood work, but refused to give a confirmed diagnosis,” he said. “Shouldn’t a quick test kit give quick results?” https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3047441/wuhan-medical-staff-being-infected-virus-much-faster-pace

On Saturday, a 62-year-old doctor suspected of having the coronavirus died. Liang Wudong, a surgeon at Xinhua Hospital in Wuhan, was believed to have been infected last week, before he was transferred for treatment to Wuhan’s Jinyintan Hospital, according to Shanghai-based news portal Thepaper.cn. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3047646/no-link-seafood-market-first-case-china-coronavirus-chinese

By MD BureauPublished On 25 Jan 2020 3:01 AM | Updated On 25 Jan 2020 5:26 AM Beijing: A doctor from China''s Hubei province, the epicentre of the fast-spreading coronavirus, died on Saturday reportedly due to the deadly disease, becoming the first medical professional to have fallen victim to it, according to a media report. The death toll due to the virus rose to 41 in China with 1,287 confirmed cases, China''s National Health Commission announced on Saturday. Of the 1,287 confirmed cases, the condition of the 237 is stated to be critical.https://medicaldialogues.in/news/health/international/62-year-old-chinese-doctor-becomes-first-medical-casualty-to-deadly-coronavirus-report-62588

62-Year-Old Chinese Doctor Becomes First Medical Casualty To Deadly Coronavirushttps://medicaldialogues.in/news/health/international/62-year-old-chinese-doctor-becomes-first-medical-casualty-to-deadly-coronavirus-report-62588

Update on pneumonia of new coronavirus infection as of 24:00 on January 24 2020-01-25 At 04:00 on January 24th, 29 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) reported 444 new confirmed cases and 16 new deaths. 3 new cases were cured and discharged. 19 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) reported 1118 new suspected cases. A total of 30 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) reported the epidemic situation, and Qinghai Province was newly added. 　　As of 24:00 on January 24, the Health and Health Commission received a total of 1287 confirmed cases of pneumonia with new coronavirus infection in 29 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), including 237 severe cases and 41 deaths (39 in Hubei Province, Hebei Province 1 case, 1 case in Heilongjiang). 38 cases have been cured and discharged. A total of 1965 suspected cases were reported in 20 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities). 　　At present, 15,197 close contacts have been traced, 1,230 medical observations have been lifted, and 13,967 people are still receiving medical observations. 　　In addition, confirmed cases were reported abroad: 5 cases in Hong Kong, China, 2 cases in Macau, 3 cases in Taiwan, 4 cases in Thailand (2 cases have been cured), 2 cases in Japan (1 case has been cured), 2 cases in Korea, Two cases were in the United States, two in Vietnam, three in Singapore, one in Nepal, and two in France. Source: National Health Commission website http://www.chinacdc.cn/jkzt/crb/zl/szkb_11803/jszl_11809/202001/t20200125_211422.html