Official CDC Health Update: 2019 New Coronavirus

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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a virus (more specifically, a coronavirus) identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China.

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Updated January 22, 2020
Situation Summary:
CDC is closely monitoring an outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a novel (new) coronavirus (termed “2019-nCoV”) that was first detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China and which continues to expand. Chinese health officials have reported hundreds of infections with 2019-nCoV in China, including outside of Hubei Province. A number of countries, including the United States, have been actively screening incoming travelers from Wuhan and human infections with 2019-nCoV have been confirmed in Taiwan, Thailand,external icon Japanexternal icon, and South Koreaexternal icon. The United States announced their first infection with 2019-nCoV detected in a traveler returning from Wuhan on January 21, 2020.....

 

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People from Hubei do not emigrate in large numbers as people from Fujian do. But there is a lot of foreign tourism there.

 

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Updated 22 January 2020

Airport screenings for the Wuhan coronavirus increase around the world

As the Lunar New Year travel rush picks up, airports in countries including Thailand, Australia and the United States are increasing health screenings to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, which first appeared in Wuhan, China.

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....China's busiest travel period
With the annual Lunar New Year/Spring Festival travel rush now underway, officials are battling to isolate those infected and prevent the disease from spreading further. According to data from aviation website Flightconnections.com, Wuhan Airport services non-stop scheduled passenger flights to 109 destinations in 20 countries. These include major cities like London, Moscow, Paris, Rome, New York, San Francisco, Bangkok, Tokyo and Seoul.
Wuhan, a city of 11 million people, is also a hub for China's high-speed rail network. Compounding the challenge for health authorities, hundreds of millions of Chinese will travel during the Spring Festival period, which officially began on January 10 and will end on February 18 -- the largest annual human migration on Earth....

 

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23 January 2020
China coronavirus: Beijing cancelled Chinese New Year celebrations - BBC News

Lockdown measures are increasing across China's Hubei province to try to control the spread of a new virus that has left 17 people dead. Wuhan, Hubei's capital of 11 million people where the virus first emerged, has no trains or planes in or out. At least four other provincial cities are seeing clampdowns on transport. There are more than 500 confirmed cases of the virus, which has spread abroad, with Singapore, Saudi Arabia and Vietnam the latest affected.

 

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Update: 30 January 2020

Statement on the second meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the outbreak of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

Following the advice of the Emergency Committee today, WHO Director-General has declared the outbreak of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. In China, more than 7700 cases have been confirmed, and 170 people have died. There are 82 additional cases...

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Map tracks coronavirus outbreak in near real time

The dashboard, built by a team at the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering and regularly updated with data from the WHO, CDC, and other sources, illustrates how the virus is spreading in China and beyond

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ArcGIS Dashboards

ArcGIS Dashboards

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12 February 2020

Argentines created method to detect coronavirus in a few minutes | Chronicle

A group of Argentine scientists created the prototype of a portable kit to diagnose, by molecular technology, if a patient is infected with coronavirus, a disease that arose in China that killed mo…

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“Eight years ago a technology called CRISPR appeared, which is a defense system in bacteria that was adapted as a biotechnological tool for editing genes”, claimed Federico Pereyra Bonnet, one of the founders of the project Caspr Biotech.....

 

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28 February 2020

Israeli firm unveils kit to diagnose coronavirus, as 2nd team works on a vaccine

Announcement of BATM kit comes as officials struggle to balance need for rapid testing and worries over false positives; science minister hails institute's progress toward vaccine

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....Separately, Israel’s state-funded Migal Galilee Research Institute said it had identified similarities between COVID-19 and Infectious Bronchitis Virus, which affects poultry, that could allow it to develop a vaccine to battle the deadly outbreak. It said it was working to quickly adapt its IBV vaccine for use against COVID-19. Human trials have not yet been approved.
“Our goal is to produce the vaccine during the next 8-10 weeks, and to achieve safety approval in 90 days,” Migal CEO David Zigdon said in a statement. Science Minister Ofer Akunis hailed the team’s work as an “exciting breakthrough” and said he was confident there would be “further rapid progress.”

Several other firms are also racing to develop a vaccine against the virus based on older cures, with most public health officials estimating that it may take a year or more before one reaches the market, accounting for time to develop, test and produce the medicine.

 

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5 April 2020

Coronavirus. Expertos argentinos buscan que se pruebe en humanos un antiparasitario del campo

Coronavirus. Expertos argentinos buscan que se pruebe en humanos un antiparasitario del campo

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Coronavirus. Argentine experts seek to test a field dewormer in humans

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6 April 2020

Hidroxicloroquina: los resultados del ensayo Discovery, empantanados

¿Conoceremos pronto la tan esperada droga que nos permita luchar de manera segura contra el coronavirus? La pregunta aún no tiene respuesta. Y a juzgar por la falsa esperanza que generaba conocer los primeros resultados en torno a la hidroxicloroquina el fin de semana pasado, la cuestión se...

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Hydroxychloroquine: the results of the Discovery experimental tests, bogged down

Hidroxicloroquina: los resultados del ensayo Discovery, empantanados

¿Conoceremos pronto la tan esperada droga que nos permita luchar de manera segura contra el coronavirus? La pregunta aún no tiene respuesta. Y a juzgar por la falsa esperanza que generaba conocer los primeros resultados en torno a la hidroxicloroquina el fin de semana pasado, la cuestión se...

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