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A carehome in Brighton has now been closed as the GP who has been confirmed with the virus visited the older residents last week. https://www.carehome.co.uk/news/article.cfm/id/1621216/care-home-brighton-lockdown-coronavirus-gp

Just got some new headphones for this thread alone. Will start listening later. 80M as in 80 million cases?

It's terrifying to watch this unfold. I can't believe what I'm seeing and reading.

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A Chinese scientist was speaking about the possibility of the virus being airborne this morning on CGTN news.

Make that two Doctors! I'm struggling with that information.

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/18224218.st-marys-independent-school-southampton-closed-evacuated-coronavirus-fears/ There are 261 pupils in this school.

Now a school in Southampton England, St Marys, has just been closed due to various staff and pupils becoming ill having recently came back from China. It's coming thick and fast now.

It's a Doctor of all people.

Can't find anything yet but BBC just said that one of the other people infected in the UK already is also an NHS staff member. How can that be? What kind of incompetence is being used in this country before two members of the NHS have been infected already and we only have a total of 8 confirmed cases so far? Are our NHS staff not being briefed properly of the implications of this virus?

Health Secretary announces strengthened legal powers to bolster public health protections against coronavirus The government has today introduced strengthened powers to bolster protections against the coronavirus outbreak for people in England. The regulations have been put in place with immediate effect to impose restrictions on any individual considered by health professionals to be at risk of spreading the virus. The regulations apply to any individuals seeking to leave supported isolation before the current quarantine period of 14 days is complete. It will also apply to future cases during the current coronavirus incident where an individual who may be infected or contaminated could present a risk to public health. Today’s announcement is not a result of a change in risk to the UK public, which remains moderate. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: I will do everything in my power to keep people in this country safe. We are taking every possible step to control the outbreak of coronavirus. NHS staff and others will now be supported with additional legal powers to keep people safe across the country. The transmission of coronavirus would constitute a serious threat - so I am taking action to protect the public and isolate those at risk of spreading the virus. Clinical advice has not changed about the risk to the public, which remains moderate. We are taking a belt and braces approach to all necessary precautions to ensure public safety. Our infection control procedures are world leading – what I am announcing today further strengthens our response. The regulations have been put in place to reduce the risk of further human-to-human transmission in this country. The strengthened powers, effective immediately, will ensure that NHS staff dealing with possible cases can be confident the necessary powers are in place to keep individuals in isolation where public health professionals believe there is a reasonable risk an individual may have the virus. This is in line with measures taken in other countries. Over the weekend, the latest government-chartered flight brought a further 100 individuals from the centre of the outbreak in Hubei province to stay in supported isolation in the UK. The individuals have been taken to the Kents Hill Park conference centre in Milton Keynes where they will remain for 14 days until the end of the incubation period. This follows the same approach for those currently being housed in Arrowe Park NHS accommodation in Wirral. All passengers were asked to sign a consent form agreeing to stay in supported isolation for at least 14 days until the incubation period is over. In all cases so far, supported isolation has been effective in controlling the spread of the virus. These powers will give the public further confidence that the repatriation of British citizens back to the UK from Hubei does not increase the risk of further cases in this country. The UK Chief Medical Officers currently assess the risk to the UK to be moderate. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/health-secretary-announces-strengthened-legal-powers-to-bolster-public-health-protections-against-coronavirus

You're right, it is absurd.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51447761

A small local Doctors surgery has just been closed in Brighton England due to a staff member apparently being diagnosed with coronavirus. Not good.

Thank you.

Shouldn't all countries with nationals on board this ship be starting to make arrangements to remove their own passengers now? It doesn't take a lot to figure out that the chances are extremely high of most, if not all, of the people on the cruise having this virus due to the numbers coming out already and from being in relatively close proximity to each other for weeks. The health board in Japan would struggle with that and is under strain already. This ships a ticking time bomb from where I'm sitting.

This is tragic. It also smells bad. Sorry but it does.

The study, mentioned above by the Lancet from January 31st. https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736(20)30260-9

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3872448 TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A study released in a respected scientific journal last week calculates the number of Wuhan virus infections has already surpassed 300,000 and the number of cases will "double every 6.4 days." A scientific modeling study carried out by the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and published on the Lancet website last week suggests the Chinese government has underestimated the epidemic tenfold. The study estimates the number of cases is much more given the 2.68 spread rate per case, the doubling of total infections every 6.4 days, and known travel patterns in China and worldwide. The study stated that by Jan. 25, there were probably already 75,815 people infected with the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Wuhan. This number for January far exceeds the number given by the government on Feb. 6 of 28,000. Given the report estimated over 75,000 cases on Jan. 25, it has been 12 days, and the rate of doubling is every 6.4 days, the number of cases in Wuhan alone would now be around 300,000. The study then predicts that if there is "no reduction in tranmissbility," infections should peak by April of this year. The report then said that there would be a one to two week lag for the rest of China's cities. The researchers wrote that if transmissibility was reduced by 25 percent, both the growth rate and magnitude of local epidemics would be reduced. If transmissibility could be reduced by 50 percent, the spread of the virus would be slowed substantially, but it would also peak much later in the year. The authors concluded that massive quarantine efforts in Wuhan will have negligible effect on the forward trajectories of the epidemics in other cities because they have already been "seeded" with dozens of infections. The report then stated that "local epidemics are probably already growing exponentially in multiple major Chinese cities" and given the large numbers of travelers from those cities to destinations across the globe, other countries are at risk of experiencing Wuhan virus epidemics in the first half of this year.

This very sadly would correspond with the live footage coming from China from both civilians and medical staff which is horrendous.

So sad. https://www.businessinsider.com/wuhan-coronavirus-in-infant-born-from-infected-mother-2020-2?r=US&IR=T

You're welcome. That's quite alarming.

Does this mean that the first test taken was done wrong or was somehow 'faulty' or that the virus was undetectable until a later date?

https://7news.com.au/travel/coronavirus/child-becomes-qlds-third-coronavirus-case-c-681017