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Japan confirms first case of coronavirus KYODO JAN 16, 2020 Japan has confirmed its first case of infection with a new coronavirus, a government official said Thursday. A Chinese national who has traveled to Wuhan, eastern China, has tested positive in Japan, the official said. The Chinese national is a man in his 30s who lives in Kanagawa Prefecture. He returned from Wuhan on Jan. 6, and was hospitalized on Jan. 10. He has already recovered and was discharged from the hospital on Wednesday, the official said. The pneumonia-like virus has infected dozens of people in China since the outbreak began in Wuhan in December. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/16/national/science-health/japan-first-coronavirus-case

On January 14, a medical institution in Kanagawa Prefecture reported to a public health center with pneumonia who had stayed in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. About this person, when he / she visited a medical institution on January 6, a report of his / her stay history in Wuhan was made. It was reported based on the inspection system (similarity surveillance). 検 査 When the specimen of the patient was examined at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (Murayama government office), a new coronavirus-positive result was obtained yesterday (January 15) at around 20:45. It is the first time that domestic cases of pneumonia related to the new coronavirus have been confirmed in Japan. に つ い て We will conduct active epidemiological surveys on this matter and promote risk assessment in cooperation with related organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO). Overview (1) Age: 30s (2) Gender: Male (3) Resident prefecture: Kanagawa prefecture (4) Symptoms: fever since January 3rd. Returned from Wuhan, Hubei Province, China on January 6. On the same day, he visited a medical institution. Hospitalized from January 10th. On January 15, the symptoms subsided and the patient was discharged. (5) Country of stay: China (Wuhan, Hubei Province) (6) Action history in the country of stay: According to reports from the person himself, he has not stopped at the seafood market in Wuhan (South China Seafood Castle). Potential close contact with unspecified pneumonia patients in China. https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/newpage_08906.html

In Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, pneumonia that seems to be caused by new coronaviruses is one after another.A man living in Kanagawa Prefecture who had traveled to Wuhan complained of pneumonia symptoms in Japan, and as a result of examination, a new corona virus was found. An interview with the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare revealed that the virus was detected. This is the first time that a new coronavirus infection has been confirmed in Japan. https://t.co/r3DFVNQ3qt?amp=1

New type pneumonia confirmed for the first time in Japan Travel history to China and Wuhan 1/16 (Thursday) 6:52 delivery 　In Wuhan City , Hubei Province in central China , unexplained cases of pneumonia have been occurring one after another. Officials said yesterday that a positive reaction for pneumonia had occurred. It is the first time that a patient has been confirmed in Japan, and the government is expected to consult with related ministries and agencies on the same day. https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20200116-00000508-san-hlth

New type pneumonia confirmed for the first time in Japan Travel history to China and Wuhan Four 1053 1:57 on January 16, 2020 Sankei Shimbun 　In Wuhan City, Hubei Province in central China, unexplained cases of pneumonia have been occurring one after another. A positive reaction for pneumonia was reported on Tuesday, officials said. 　It is the first time a patient has been confirmed in Japan, and the government is expected to consult with relevant ministries and agencies on the same day. https://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/17669785/

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New type pneumonia confirmed for the first time in Japan Travel history to China and Wuhan 2020.1.16 01:55Life body TwitterreactionFacebookfont sizeprinting 　Seafood market in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, where many patients with unknown pneumonia appeared = December, 2019 　In Wuhan City, Hubei Province in central China, unexplained cases of pneumonia have been occurring one after another. A positive reaction for pneumonia was reported on Tuesday, officials said. It is the first time a patient has been confirmed in Japan, and the government is expected to consult with relevant ministries and agencies on the same day https://www.sankei.com/life/news/200116/lif2001160010-n1.html

Media report citing 2019-nCoV confirmation in resident in Japan ex-Wuhan. This thread will tally 2019-nCoV cases in Japan.

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While preliminary investigations indicate that most of the patients had worked at or visited a particular seafood wholesale market, one woman may have contracted the virus from her husband, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission said in a public notice. The commission said the husband, who fell ill first, worked at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. Meanwhile, the wife said she hasn’t had any exposure to the market. It’s possible that the husband brought home food from the market that then infected his wife, Hong Kong health official Chuang Shuk-kwan said at a news briefing. But because the wife did not exhibit symptoms until days after her husband, it’s also possible that he infected her. https://apnews.com/89facb95962d7d20d1377ae0c2ac0eed

World on alert for potential spread of new SARS-like virus found in China By Jon Cohen, Dennis NormileJan. 14, 2020 , 4:25 PM Had the nightmare returned? That’s the question many were asking in the first 10 days of this year, after a new form of pneumonia emerged in Wuhan, a megacity in central China. The outbreak revived memories of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the disease that emerged in China in 2002 and sickened 8098 people in 37 countries before it was quashed in the summer of 2003. Like SARS, the Wuhan pneumonia cases were linked to a market selling myriad species of live animals, and they appear to be caused by a new member of the coronavirus family closely related to the SARS virus. And once again, China appeared to be less than forthcoming with information. Today, global health experts are breathing a little easier. As Science went to press, only one of 42 people known to be infected had died: a 61-year-old man already suffering from abdominal tumors and chronic liver disease. (SARS had a 9.6% mortality rate.) No evidence suggests the virus easily passes between humans, which can turn a local problem into a global crisis. And Chinese researchers have now shared the sequence of six genomes of the as-yet-unnamed virus with the world. Scientists in other countries have used the data. The World Health Organization (WHO) plans to soon publish a diagnostic test for the new virus that was developed by Christian Drosten, a virologist at Charité University Hospital in Berlin, and other researchers based on the sequences released by China. It detects fragments from three different genes in the novel coronavirus that are also present in the SARS virus. “We wanted to use SARS as a basis because every public health laboratory has SARS RNA as a positive control so they can get started immediately," says Drosten, noting that SARS itself has not been detected in humans in 15 years. Ralph Baric, a coronavirus researcher at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is already trying to synthesize live virus from the data so that he can study it in animals and help develop a simple-to-use antibody test. Still, many questions remain. Researchers have not identified the animal species at the marketplace that harbored the virus. When it emerged and the true number of people infected remain a mystery. Meanwhile, a case in Thailand, reported on 13 January—in a tourist who flew from Wuhan to Bangkok—led WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to consult experts on outbreak responses. The patient had not visited the Wuhan market at the center of the outbreak but had been to other animal markets, WHO reported on 14 January. The first known patient developed symptoms—which can include difficulty breathing and fever—on 8 December 2019. Officials closed the seafood market on New Year’s Day, and no new patients have been identified in Wuhan since 3 January. The virus was not found in 763 close contacts of those infected, or in health care workers, who often fall ill during outbreaks of viruses that can transmit between humans. “It is a limited outbreak,” says Xu Jianguo, who runs an infectious disease laboratory at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and heads an evaluation committee that’s advising the Chinese government. “If no new patients appear in the next week, it might be over.” WHO said in a 12 January statement that it was “reassured of the quality of the ongoing investigations and the response measures implemented in Wuhan, and the commitment to share information regularly.” But others criticized the way early information came out. News that researchers had discovered a novel coronavirus came in an 8 January story in The Wall Street Journal; Xu confirmed the finding on a state-run TV station several hours later. “It’s not a good situation when The Wall Street Journal [reports] a SARS-like coronavirus before the Chinese government announces it,” Baric says. On 10 January, Jeremy Farrar, an infectious disease specialist who heads the London-based Wellcome Trust, tweeted his worry about rumors that the Chinese government did not share “critical public health information” because Chinese researchers wanted to ensure publication of their findings in high-profile journals first. Less than 12 hours later, however, evolutionary biologist Edward Holmes of the University of Sydney published an “initial” sequence of the new coronavirus on virological.org, on behalf of a consortium led by Zhang Yong-Zhen of Fudan University in Shanghai. The next day, three groups working under China’s National Health Commission posted another five sequences of the virus, gathered from different patients, on GISAID, a database primarily used for sharing data on influenza viruses. The six sequences differ little from each other, which evolutionary biologist Andrew Rambaut of the University of Edinburgh says is “consistent with a point source”—meaning they likely came from the same batch of infected animals at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, which also sells birds, snakes, and rabbit meat. (No coronaviruses have ever been found in fish.) But the fact that cases surfaced over the course of 1 month suggests the source was more than one group of animals at one location, Farrar says: “It makes me worry that whatever the exposure was to, it went on for quite a long time.” Virologist Guan Yi of Hong Kong University agrees that the Wuhan outbreak was caused by multiple jumps from animal to human hosts “separately and independently.” Whatever species spread the virus at the market may have picked it up from some natural reservoir. Many coronaviruses occur naturally in bats, and the new virus is closest to four bat viruses that have surface proteins capable of infecting human cells. Still, Rambaut cautions there may well be another natural host. “It’s quite similar to a bat virus in parts of its genome, but not so much in other parts,” he says. Farrar notes that most confirmed cases to date were mild, which means that even before health officials recognized the outbreak, the virus may have infected many other people who never sought medical care. That makes it premature to conclude the pathogen doesn’t spread from human to human, he says. Nurses and doctors, too, may have been infected without anyone noticing, he adds: “With a coronavirus, I’d be very surprised if there wasn’t some limited human-to-human transmission.” So far, cases have been confirmed by detecting nucleic acid from the virus, which disappears after patients recover. Now that the virus has been isolated, researchers can also develop antibody tests that pick up signs of past infection. Limited as the outbreak appears to date, Farrar and others still worry that travel of hundreds of millions of people for the Lunar New Year celebration on 25 January could spread the virus from Wuhan, a major transportation hub, to other cities. “With people, food and animals move,” says Farrar, who suspects that this outbreak “is not going away anytime soon.” With reporting by Kai Kupferschmidt. Posted in: Asia Health doi:10.1126/science.aba9012 Jon Cohen Jon is a staff writer for Science. Email Jon Twitter Denni https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/world-alert-potential-spread-new-sars-virus-found-china?utm_campaign=news_daily_2020-01-14&et_rid=17052453&et_cid=3163769

Meanwhile, a 61-year-old tourist from Wuhan is being treated at a hospital in Nonthaburi, to the north of Bangkok, after testing positive for the new strain on her arrival in Thailand. The World Health Organisation (WHO) said in a tweet on Wednesday morning that the woman was a frequent visitor to a fresh market in Wuhan, though not specifically the one at the centre of the outbreak. “The patient reported a history of visiting a local fresh market in Wuhan on a regular basis prior to the onset of illness; however, she did not report visiting the Huanan South China Seafood Market from where most of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) cases were detected,” it said, using the official name of the newly identified virus. Professor David Hui Shu-cheong, an expert on respiratory medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said that on the basis of the woman’s statement, authorities in Wuhan should investigate the market she said she had visited and check any others that sold game meat. Officials in Wuhan said earlier that several people who had been in close contact with the tourist had been put under medical observation, but none had shown any abnormal symptoms. Despite the absence of clear evidence of human-to-human transmission and lack of infections reported among health care workers, the WHO called for further investigation into possible modes of transmission, because of the dangers of the potential human-to-human spread of respiratory illnesses. “It can be difficult to determine if they are ill due to exposure to a common source of infection, or because one person passed the illness to the other,” it said in a statement. “Existing investigation found no clear human-to-human evidence. The possibility of limited human-to-human transmission cannot be ruled out, but the risk of continued human-to-human transmission is low.” Health experts have not ruled out the possibility of the virus spreading from person to person. Photo: Jun Mai Wuhan authorities have collected environment samples from the seafood market, which has been closed since January 1, and found some that tested positive for the coronavirus. Preliminary investigations in other markets in the city had found no clues to the source of the outbreak, the health commission said. Chuang said she was told that some of the samples – taken from table tops, the floor and vendors’ gloves, among other places – had tested positive for the coronavirus. “I understand they have also collected samples from other areas of the market but so far only those collected from the seafood section tested positive.” Asked if there was any evidence that the virus could have come from an animal, Chuang said: “I understand [local experts] may also have started trying to trace the source of the virus to animals. “The experts are of the view that the chance of seafood being the source of the virus [found in the environmental samples] is not high. Thus, the direction would be tracing it to some other animal,” she said. “The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market mainly sells seafood and poultry. We were also given to understand that animals such as bamboo rats, snakes, badgers and hedgehogs were also available there.” Wuhan pneumonia ‘bears close similarity to Sars’, analysis finds 15 Jan 2020 Most of the people diagnosed were middle-aged or elderly and male, the Wuhan health authority said. Six of the 41 were still being treated as severe cases, while seven had been cured and discharged. More than 760 people who had been in close contact with those patients had been put under medical investigation, with 187 having been removed from quarantine by Tuesday after showing no symptoms for two weeks, the authorities said. As a major transport hub with a population of 11 million people, the pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan has raised concerns the disease could spread to other cities during the Lunar New Year travel season, which is now under way. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3046173/china-says-human-transmission-not-ruled-out-wuhan-coronavirus

China coronavirus outbreak: five members of two families among 41 people infected in Wuhan Father, son and cousin who lived in the same house and ran a stall at the seafood market at the centre of outbreak among those hit, authorities say Seafood trader and his wife also being treated, despite woman never having visited the market Zhuang Pinghui in Beijing andNg Kang-chung Published: 2:16pm, 15 Jan, 2020 A man leaves a treatment centre in Wuhan, where 41 people have tested positive for the new strain of the coronavirus. Photo: AFP Health officials have revealed that three members of the same family were among the 41 people that contracted the newly identified coronavirus in the central China city of Wuhan, adding that they have neither confirmed nor ruled out the possibility of human-to-human transmission. The three men – a father, his son and a cousin – lived together and ran a seafood stall at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, which is widely thought to have been where the pneumonia outbreak started, Wuhan officials told visiting health experts from Hong Kong . In an update released early on Wednesday, the officials said also that a husband and wife were among those affected. But while the husband worked at the seafood market as a trader, his wife had never even visited it. Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan, one of the Hong Kong experts, said she was told there was no definitive evidence of human-to-human transmission and that no health care workers had been infected. While the possibility of “limited” human-to-human transmission could not be ruled out, the risk of sustained human-to-human transmission was low, she said. “The three men fell ill around the same time. As such, perhaps, they were not classified as human-to-human transmission cases within a family,” Chuang said. SUBSCRIBE LUNAR Get updates direct to your inbox SUBMIT By registering, you agree to our T&C and Privacy Policy She said the visiting experts had two meetings with local officials but did not visit the market. Wuhan pneumonia: how the search for the source unfolded 15 Jan 2020 According to health professionals, “limited” human-to-human transmission may occur under certain circumstances such as close contact between an infected person and an unprotected carer. However, limited transmission under such restricted circumstances does not mean that the virus spreads easily among humans. Health authorities in Wuhan became aware of the coronavirus outbreak last month after several people – mostly vendors, suppliers and frequent visitors to the market – fell ill with pneumonia. One person has since died from the disease. As well as the infections in Wuhan, 76 suspected cases had been reported in Hong Kong as of Wednesday, of which 66 were later given the all-clear and discharged from hospital. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3046173/china-says-human-transmission-not-ruled-out-wuhan-coronavirus

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She also pointed out that in addition to the couple's case, there was also a case of a three-person group in which the patients were a father and son and a son-in-law. Zhang Zhujun said that of the 41 patients in Wuhan, seven adults had visited the South China Seafood Market, which is believed to be the source of the disease. The remaining patients reported that they had not been there or were "too serious to ask", and most of the patients appeared on the market for sale. The area of aquatic seafood is not for those who sell game. She said that in addition to living together, the three patients in the three-person group also operated stores in the South China Seafood Market. The onset time was relatively short. It is believed that they may be more likely to be jointly exposed to the virus and less likely to be transmitted from person to person. However, she said that during the inspection, she did not ask in detail what the three patients were selling in the market. "The question was missed." Therefore, she was not sure. They could only infer that they were also selling aquatic products.

Among the 41 cases currently diagnosed , one was found to be clustered in the family. The husband and wife developed the disease first, and the husband first developed the disease. He was an employee of the South China Seafood Wholesale Market. His wife denied a history of South China Seafood Wholesale Market exposure. Report post (IP: 67.248.111.152) Posted 1 hour ago [Wuhan Pneumonia] Wuhan South China Seafood Market Environmental Samples Detected Virus Couples and the Transmission of Humans or Objects Was Not Determined (16:26) Figure 2-1-The mainland authorities in the South China seafood market believed to be the source of pneumonia in Wuhan, environmental samples are against the new crown... (Profile picture) A pneumonia caused by a new coronavirus broke out in Wuhan. A government team from Hong Kong met with reporters this afternoon (15th) after a visit to Wuhan. Zhang Zhujun, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Center for Health Protection, said that in the South China Seafood Market in Wuhan, which is suspected to be the source of the disease, environmental samples have been tested positive for the new coronavirus; a case of a couple infected by the mainland has not yet been identified. It is said that his wife became ill after he brought home items from the market and polluted the environment. She also pointed out that in addition to the couple's case, there was also a case of a three-person group in which the patients were a father and son and a son-in-law. Zhang Zhujun said that of the 41 patients in Wuhan, seven adults had visited the South China Seafood Market, which is believed to be the source of the disease. The remaining patients reported that they had not been there or were "too serious to ask", and most of the patients appeared on the market for sale. The area of aquatic seafood is not for those who sell game. She said that in addition to living together, the three patients in the three-person group also operated stores in the South China Seafood Market. The onset time was relatively short. It is believed that they may be more likely to be jointly exposed to the virus and less likely to be transmitted from person to person. However, she said that during the inspection, she did not ask in detail what the three patients were selling in the market. "The question was missed." Therefore, she was not sure. They could only infer that they were also selling aquatic products. A couple who was defined as a family group case, Zhang Zhujun initially only said that her husband developed the disease first, and his wife developed the disease "every few days". After questioning, she said that "there was no question to be clear". It is believed that the conversation between the mainland personnel occurred about 5 days apart. She also did not ask whether the condition of the wife, who was later affected, was more severe or milder than that of her husband. Zhang Zhujun pointed out that environmental samples from the South China seafood market, including the ground, table tops, and gloves, were positive for the new coronavirus, and the samples came from areas where aquatic products were sold. She said that although human-to-human cases of infected couples could not be ruled out at this stage, it is also possible that the husband brought home the virus-carrying items from the market, which polluted the home environment and infected his wife. https://news.mingpao.com/ins/港聞/article/20200115/s00001/1579076442327/【武漢肺炎】武漢華南海鮮市場環境樣本驗出病毒-夫婦發病未確定人傳人或物件

Among the 41 cases currently diagnosed , one was found to be clustered in the family. The husband and wife developed the disease first, and the husband first developed the disease. He was an employee of the South China Seafood Wholesale Market. His wife denied a history of South China Seafood Wholesale Market exposure. http://wjw.wuhan.gov.cn/front/web/showDetail/2020011509040

More information being released on 2019-nCoV clusters in Wuhan. This thread will tally details.

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BANGKOK (AP) — A Chinese visitor to Thailand has been confirmed to be infected with a new strain of coronavirus that has been linked to a pneumonia outbreak in central China, health officials said Monday. The U.N.’s World Health Organization said Thai officials have reported that a traveler from the Chinese city of Wuhan has been hospitalized in Thailand with the virus. The outbreak of the virus has been traced to Wuhan, where it affected several dozen people who had been to a major meat and seafood market. Thai Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said it appears to be the first confirmed case of the virus found outside China, the Bangkok Post newspaper and other Thai media reported. He identified the infected tourist as a 61-year-old woman whose symptoms were detected on arrival at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport last Wednesday. Her coronavirus was confirmed Sunday by a laboratory test, Anutin said. She has been treated at an isolation ward at a state health facility outside of Bangkok, and no longer has any fever or respiratory symptoms, he said. Eight other people with possible symptoms have also been held at the facility, he said, but none has been confirmed to have the virus. A statement issued Monday by the Geneva-based World Health Organization said it is working with officials in Thailand and China following the report of the confirmed case outside China. The agency says its director-general is consulting with the agency’s emergency committee, which generally decides whether viral outbreaks merit an expanded response from health authorities. “The possibility of cases being identified in other countries was not unexpected, and reinforces why WHO calls for ongoing active monitoring and preparedness in other countries,” the agency said. “WHO reiterates that it is essential that investigations continue in China to identify the source of this outbreak and any animal reservoirs or intermediate hosts.” The virus is not believed to be spread by human-to-human contact. Officials in Wuhan said over the weekend that a total of 41 people were suffering from pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus and a 61-year-old man had died — China’s first known death from the virus. China says the cause of the Wuhan outbreak remains unknown but has sought to play down speculation that it could be a reappearance of the SARS epidemic, which killed hundreds in 2002 and 2003. Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses, some of which cause the common cold. Others found in bats, camels and other animals have evolved to cause more severe illnesses. Common symptoms include a runny nose, headache, cough and fever. Shortness of breath, chills and body aches are associated with more dangerous kinds of coronaviruses, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/crimecourtscalamity/2020/01/14/officials-confirm-1st-case-of-coronavirus-from-chinas-wuhan/

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Interview tonight at 11 PM ET includes update on H2H and Bangkok ex-Wutan 61F tourist Dr. Henry Niman PhDSARS 2.0 Update... Lots Of New Developments

Interview tonight at 11 PM ET includes update on 61F and H2H transmission Dr. Henry Niman PhDSARS 2.0 Update... Lots Of New Developments