The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday confirmed a possible first person-to-person transmission of COVID-19 in California in a patient who is identified as a member of the general public. Read the rest
A Korean Air flight attendant has tested positive for coronavirus, and they worked on flights between Seoul and Los Angeles, South Korean media outlets reported on Wednesday afternoon U.S. time. Read the rest
China's government health commission in Hubei province reported on Friday that the daily death toll from coronavirus rose by 116. Read the rest
The coronavirus test kits distributed to various U.S. states and 30 other countries by the U.S. Centers for disease control may not work, and are feared to deliver results that are at best 'inconclusive,' officials said today.
In the United States, 13 cases of the infection in patients have been confirmed so far. An estimated 850 evacuees who are American have quarantined at military bases after flying from China. Others are self-quarantining at home.
From the New York Times:
The kits were meant to enable states to conduct their own testing and get results faster than they would by shipping samples to the C.D.C. in Atlanta. But the failure of the kits means that states still have to depend on the C.D.C., which will mean several days’ delay in getting results.
The C.D.C. announced last week that it had begun shipping about 200 kits to laboratories in the United States and roughly 200 more to labs in more than 30 other countries. Each kit can test about 700 to 800 specimens from patients, the agency said.
On trial runs in some states, the kits produced results that were “inconclusive,” Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said at a news conference on Wednesday.
“Things may not always go as smoothly as we may like,” Dr. Messonnier said.
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Coronavirus Test Kits Sent to States, 30 Countries Are Flawed, C.D.C. Says
PHOTO: CDC.GOV, the tests now seen as flawed:
Read the restThis is a picture of CDC’s laboratory test kit for the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).
Ex-convict, sex scandalist, and TV evangelist Jim Bakker is at it again. Read the rest
The GSMA says it has canceled Mobile World Congress after the coronavirus made it “impossible” to hold the event. Read the rest
A new UK coronavirus case that is reported to involve a woman who flew from China to London was reported by the BBC, the Guardian, and other outlets on Wednesday. Read the rest
• UPDATE from WHO: China has reported 42,708 confirmed cases of "COVID-19" (coronavirus disease 2019), and 1,017 deaths
• Fewer than 400 cases reported in 24 other countries, one death
• World leaders must “wake up and consider this enemy virus as public enemy number one,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said today
The global outbreak of Novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV represents a “very grave threat for the rest of the world,” and should be seen as a global “Public Enemy Number 1”, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday. Read the rest
This essay on the Wuhan coronavirus by Xu Zhangrun, translated from the original Chinese and annotated by Geremie R. Barmé on Chinafile.com, is absolutely amazing. I'm grateful it is now available for English-speaking audiences. Read the rest
Leaked emails reveal that Amazon.com is stockpiling products made in China over fears that coronavirus will harm its supply chain — after the company said the outbreak will cause 'no interruptions' to operations. Read the rest
After 12 days out of sight while the coronavirus death toll surged, Chinese President Xi Jinping finally made a public appearance on Monday. He wore a face mask and a medical worker took his temperature at a “front-line” coronavirus facility in the Chaoyang district of Beijing. Read the rest
On Saturday, February 8, the United States Embassy in Beijing confirmed that a 60-year-old American national died of the new coronavirus last Thursday at Jinyintian Hospital in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Read the rest
VIDEO: Episode One of “Our Coronavirus Diary.”
There is an incredible series of videos making the rounds today, and they are identified as being produced by a man in Wuhan, China, self-quarantined in his apartment with his wife--who is infected with the deadly Novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV. Read the rest
The number of deaths from the Wuhan coronavirus now stands at 630, China state media reports today.
China's Hubei province reports 2,447 new cases of the deadly virus, and 69 new deaths as of Thursday.
Multiple news agencies are now confirming.
#BREAKING China virus death toll rises to at least 630, government says pic.twitter.com/27fW31NC9p
— AFP news agency (@AFP) February 6, 2020
Novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV continues to spread throughout the world.
#Update: #Hubei reported 2,447 new cases of novel #coronavirus on Feb 6, with 69 new deaths; total infection number of the province rose to 22,112, with 618 dead and 817 recovered. https://t.co/SZ98qVlYQd pic.twitter.com/0itVhu6nTA
— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) February 6, 2020
More Americans fleeing the coronavirus outbreak are being evacuated from Wuhan, China, to the U.S. On Wednesday, 2 State Department-chartered jetliners carried an estimated 350 U.S. citizens from Wuhan, China, to a U.S. military base in California. Read the rest
