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**Treyfish** · February 9, 2020, 01:57 PM

Migrant worker in Singapore is first Bangladeshi coronavirus patient

Staff Correspondent, bdnews24.com

Published: 10 Feb 2020 12:37 AM BdST Updated: 10 Feb 2020 12:37 AM BdST

The 39-year-old Bangladeshi work pass holder was warded in an isolation room at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases or NCID, the Singapore Ministry of Health said.

His symptoms surfaced on Feb 1, he went to a general practitioner clinic on Feb 3, and Changi General Hospital on Feb 5, according to The Straits Times.

He was admitted to the intensive care unit at Changi Hospital after a follow-up appointment at Bedok Polyclinic on Feb 7, the newspaper said.

He was confirmed to have the disease on Saturday afternoon, and was then transferred to the NCID.
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https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2020...avirus-patient

**Treyfish** · February 9, 2020, 02:26 PM

Texas
“As of this [Sunday] morning, Metro Health is monitoring a small number of travelers who have returned from mainland China. Per the President’s public health emergency declaration, and consistent with state and CDC protocols, the travelers are in a 14-day self quarantine since their departure from China and they are not showing symptoms. They will monitor their temperature and check for signs or symptoms and report to Metro Health twice daily. If there is a confirmed case, we will share information as necessary, while also considering the privacy of these travelers.”

https://news4sanantonio.com/news/loc...elf-quarantine

**Treyfish** · February 9, 2020, 02:44 PM

We will see the decrease of confirmed case. They divided positive cases into confirmed cases and asymptomatic infections. Asymptomatic infections will not count to confirmed case since 7th Feb.

https://twitter.com/kane_chow97/status/1226591425002762240

**Shiloh** · February 9, 2020, 04:58 PM

Clinical characteristics of 2019 novel coronavirus infection in China
This article is a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed [what does this mean?]. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used to guide clinical practice.

Clinical characteristics of 2019 novel coronavirus infection in China

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.06.20020974v1

Background Since December 2019, acute respiratory disease (ARD) due to 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) emerged in Wuhan city and rapidly spread throughout China. We sought to delineate the clinical characteristics of these cases. Methods We extracted the data on 1,099 patients with laboratory-confirmed 2019-nCoV ARD from 552 hospitals in 31 provinces/provincial municipalities through January 29th, 2020. Results The median age was 47.0 years, and 41.90% were females. Only 1.18% of patients had a direct contact with wildlife, whereas 31.30% had been to Wuhan and 71.80% had contacted with people from Wuhan. Fever (87.9%) and cough (67.7%) were the most common symptoms. Diarrhea is uncommon. The median incubation period was 3.0 days (range, 0 to 24.0 days). On admission, ground-glass opacity was the typical radiological finding on chest computed tomography (50.00%). Significantly more severe cases were diagnosed by symptoms plus reverse-transcriptase polymerase-chain-reaction without abnormal radiological findings than non-severe cases (23.87% vs. 5.20%, P <0.001). Lymphopenia was observed in 82.1% of patients. 55 patients (5.00%) were admitted to intensive care unit and 15 (1.36%) succumbed. Severe pneumonia was independently associated with either the admission to intensive care unit, mechanical ventilation, or death in multivariate competing-risk model (sub-distribution hazards ratio, 9.80; 95% confidence interval, 4.06 to 23.67). Conclusions The 2019-nCoV epidemic spreads rapidly by human-to-human transmission. Normal radiologic findings are present among some patients with 2019-nCoV infection. The disease severity (including oxygen saturation, respiratory rate, blood leukocyte/lymphocyte count and chest X-ray/CT manifestations) predict poor clinical outcomes. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. ### Clinical Trial NA ### Funding Statement Supported by Ministry of Science and Technology, National Health Commission, National Natural Science Foundation, Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province. ### Author Declarations All relevant ethical guidelines have been followed; any necessary IRB and/or ethics committee approvals have been obtained and details of the IRB/oversight body are included in the manuscript. Yes All necessary patient/participant consent has been obtained and the appropriate institutional forms have been archived. Yes I understand that all clinical trials and any other prospective interventional studies must be registered with an ICMJE-approved registry, such as ClinicalTrials.gov. I confirm that any such study reported in the manuscript has been registered and the trial registration ID is provided (note: if posting a prospective study registered retrospectively, please provide a statement in the trial ID field explaining why the study was not registered in advance). Yes I have followed all appropriate research reporting guidelines and uploaded the relevant EQUATOR Network research reporting checklist(s) and other pertinent material as supplementary files, if applicable. Yes Data will be made available upon request to the corresponding author.

**Shiloh** · February 9, 2020, 05:03 PM

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/ar...a-failed-state

op-ed:

Hong Kong Is Showing Symptoms of a Failed State
With empty supermarket shelves and rising public distrust, the coronavirus-hit city is ticking most of the boxes.
By Clara Ferreira Marques
February 8, 2020, 7:00 PM EST

Grocery runs in Asia’s financial powerhouse have begun to remind me of shopping in Russia in the chaotic summer of 1998. You grab what you can find, and if there is a queue, you consider joining it. Surgical masks and sanitizer gel are bartered for; detergent shelves are bare. A run on toilet paper last week, after an online rumor, was reminiscent of Venezuela.

Crowds are irrational everywhere, and social media hardly helps. Yet the palpable anxiety in coronavirus-hit Hong Kong these days suggests worrying levels of distrust in a city where citizens have always expected private enterprise at least, if not the state, to keep things ticking over. Both have failed miserably, preparing inadequately even after the SARS outbreak that killed almost 300 people in the city in 2003...

**gsgs** · February 9, 2020, 08:23 PM

Hubei ex Wuhan,1027,1070,1103,1189,1221,946,856,768,697
China ex Hubei,678,722,890,728,707,696,558,509,444
daily new cases Feb01-Feb09

cases in Wuhan are up and down, they somehow seem to report in chunks
894,1033,1242,1967,1766,1501,1985,1379,1921

stable at 1500-2000 per day since 6 days

considering the CFR, there may be 2-3 times more cases in Wuhan
than reported

**gsgs** · February 9, 2020, 09:14 PM

Originally posted by Treyfish View Post

We will see the decrease of confirmed case. They divided positive cases into confirmed cases and asymptomatic infections. Asymptomatic infections will not count to confirmed case since 7th Feb.

https://twitter.com/kane_chow97/status/1226591425002762240

that is just only for Heilongjiang

**hawkeye** · February 9, 2020, 10:42 PM

Prime Minister of Singapore has released a video in an attempt to calm citizens.

https://m.facebook.com/leehsienloong/videos/1284271178628870/

Rather incredible to watch all this unfold.

**kiwibird** · February 10, 2020, 02:16 AM

http://www.mychinanews.com/news/n/1/2415029

On February 8, a reporter from the Beijing News learned from the School of Life Science and Technology of Huazhong University of Science and Technology that Professor Hong Ling, 53, of the hospital died on the evening of the 7th due to the ineffective treatment of New Crown Pneumonia. Colleagues said that Hongling noticed discomfort around January 25, but the virus was incubating for about 10 days, and the disease did not occur until February 4. At present, the college's internal group has issued obituaries. Prior to this, the college has notified contacts to isolate and observe. Public information shows that Hong Ling was born in November 1966, and is the National Coordinator and Legal Representative, PhD Supervisor, and Chu Tian Scholar of China Rare Disease Research Alliance.

**kiwibird** · February 10, 2020, 04:51 AM

Four new coronavirus cases confirmed in UK as government declares 'serious and imminent threat'

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/02/10/coronavirus-news-uk-china-wuhan-virus-outbreak-latest/

Panic set in yesterday following the closure of a doctor’s surgery and schools as the number of coronavirus cases in the UK doubled within 24 hours.

Virus symptoms 'can take nearly a month to show'

Reports in China suggest the virus' incubation period might actually be 24 days - 10 days longer than previously thought.

Research by leading expert Zhong Nanshan in China suggests symptoms show on average after three days, but can take as long as 24 days.

**kiwibird** · February 10, 2020, 05:55 AM

速食店員染肺炎　病發前竟連上班9天108h…行經路線曝 | 國際 | 三立新聞網 SETN.COM

https://www.setn.com/News.aspx?NewsID=686531&utm_source=msn.com&utm_medium=msn&utm_campaign=msnnews

武漢肺炎（NCP，2019新型冠狀病毒）疫情持續蔓延，全球確診與死亡人數不斷上升，尤其大陸幾乎全國淪陷，陝西省西安市一名確診病患，竟發病前搭大眾運輸工具趴趴走，甚至還到速食店上班連續九天，當地疫情指揮部趕緊公布感染者發病前行經路線，若有相同軌跡可能接觸感染風險高，需立即居家隔離14天。（記者陳穎亭／綜合報導）

Worker did not realise he was infected and "Yanta District Pneumonia Prevention and Control Headquarters Office also said that the confirmed person did not know he was infected even before recurrence, and even went to work at a fast food restaurant for nine consecutive days, working about 12 hours a day, from 10 am to night At 10 o’clock"

I have even seen BBC journalists who are reporting from cities in lockdown order and receive takeaway food. They showed that the receipt stated temperature of the chef, temperature of the packer and temperature of the delivery driver. As not all people who are infected have a temperature - this would seem to be of little use.

I have also noted that journalists in the UK are advocating the theory that the infections in France of UK nationals are the responsibility of a "super spreader". I do not know their motivation for this but to dismiss the outbreak as being largely attributable to "super spreaders" rather than discussing the fact that this outbreak appears to spread incredibly fast is not accurate.

British man feared to be coronavirus 'super spreader'

https://news.sky.com/story/british-man-feared-to-be-coronavirus-super-spreader-11930523

The unnamed man contracted the virus in Singapore and is understood to have been the first UK national to catch the illness.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10913096/coronavirus-uk-live-updates/

Four more Brits infected by coronavirus 'super spreader' bringing total to eight

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/four-more-brits-infected-by-coronavirus-super-spre/

Another four people in the UK have tested positive for Coronavirus after coming into contact with a so-called "super spreader".

Hunt for easyJet passengers on same flight as coronavirus 'super spreader'

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/hunt-passengers-same-easyjet-flight-21466731

The unnamed 'super spreader' has forced health authorities into a series of emergency tests of hundreds of people and today the government raised the risk level as it warned of an "imminent threat" over the virus

etc.... All using the phrase super spreader

**kiwibird** · February 10, 2020, 06:22 AM

Originally posted by hawkeye View Post

Prime Minister of Singapore has released a video in an attempt to calm citizens.

https://m.facebook.com/leehsienloong/videos/1284271178628870/

Rather incredible to watch all this unfold.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1226808978832687104

**Pathfinder** · February 10, 2020, 10:35 AM

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Professor Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said the outbreak is likely to become a pandemic, adding he was becoming “increasingly alarmed” about the rate of infection. Professor Piot, who co-discovered ebola and the presence of Aids in Africa, warned that coronavirus is more dangerous than ebola.

“It’s a greater threat because of the mode of transmission. The potential for spread is much, much higher”.

“If the number of people who get infected is huge, then that will also kill a very large number of people.”
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UK facing ‘major outbreak’ of Coronavirus as disease spreads, expert warns

https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2020/02/09/uk-facing-major-outbreak-of-coronavirus-as-disease-spreads-expert-warns/

Experts have warned the UK is facing a “major outbreak” of coronavirus in the coming weeks as it continues to spread across the globe. Professor Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene &

**Shiloh** · February 10, 2020, 04:52 PM

I'm still looking for articles on nCov and prisons, orphanages, rehab centers etc. So far as I can tell, there has been no coverage. Out of sight, out of mind?

**blacknail** · February 10, 2020, 05:32 PM

I've noticed that the numbers from China seem to cover odd time periods lately. Some might be from 9 am to midnight. Others might be from midnight to 8 pm. It is good to see some lower numbers of cases being reported but it would be nicer if we were always looking at 24 hour periods for a more direct comparison.

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