15 Confirmed and 1 Suspected Healthcare Workers in 2 Hospitals in Wuhan

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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New virus in Wuhan: China announces first confirmed case outside Wuhan, South Korea finds confirmed case

• January 20, 2020

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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.

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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?

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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?

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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.

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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

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