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I’m confused at one thing, how are they classifying cured? Are they talking about suppression of the virus with medication or complete recovery and testing negative. As far I know their is no cure or anything in the market.
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What is this cure? I thought there was no treatment/cure for Corona?
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状病毒痊愈的标准是患者的体温恢复正常，并且在三天以上，而且呼吸道的症状明显有好转，通过呼吸道病源核酸检测阴性，并且是连续两次检测，如果以上条件都符合，那么代表冠状病毒可以解除隔离或者出院。
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Virus is considered as a non-living thing unlike bacteria, it is basically molecules of DNA or RNA that encode the structure of the proteins, thus it cannot be killed like bacteria. The only way to cure a patient is to build up the patient's own body immunity system to "de-activate" the virus, before an effective drug is found.
The "de-activated" virus is (like a broken machine that cannot function) not able to attach itself to the human cells and thus is not able to propagate and spread to patient's other body cells nor to other people.
Patients will build up their own antibody that will prevent future infections unless the virus has mutated.
As at this moment, there is no drug that can "killed" the COVID-19 virus, so it all depends on the patients' own immunity system. That is also why most of the deaths are people with chronic disease and old people with weak immunity.
The treatments given right now are using AIDS drug, SARS drug and other medication that help to boast the patients' immunity system. Also other medications to prevent worsening of patients' existing chronic disease. Also COVID-19 affects patients' lungs, concentrated oxygens are pumped into their lungs to sustain oxygen levels in their blood which prevent death.
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WTF...1900 masks in 40 days... What a bunch of pussies and cowards...
Yeah, you should try go to Wuhan or out and about without Mask. And if you can't do that, then you are worse than a bunch of sissy.
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Coronavirus deaths reach 1,523 in China, new cases drop
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIJING
Published15.02.202009:46
Updated15.02.202009:47
In this Friday, Feb. 14, 2020, photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, waving at right, greets travelers arriving at Beijing West Railway Station in Beijing. (AP Photo)
China reported 2,641 new virus cases Saturday as it escalates measures to contain the outbreak and reassure an anxious public. The figure is a major drop from the higher numbers in recent days since a broader diagnostic method was implemented.
The number of new deaths rose slightly to 143, bringing the total fatalities in mainland China to 1,523. The number of confirmed cases in the country now stands at 66,492, according to China's National Health Commission.
COVID-19, a disease stemming from a new form of coronavirus, has spread to more than two dozen countries since December, when the first infections appeared in central China. Egypt on Friday counted the first infection on the African continent.
Saturday marks the second day the number of new cases fell since a spike Thursday, when the hardest-hit province of Hubei began including clinical diagnoses in its official count. Using the wider scope of classification, the central Chinese province reported 15,152 cases, including 13,332 that were diagnosed using doctors' analyses and lung imaging, as opposed to the prior standard of laboratory testing.
Hubei health authorities said in the notice that the new method was adopted to facilitate earlier treatment for those suspected of infection.
Further confusion surfaced around a discrepancy of more than 1,000 cases between the Thursday and Friday reports. National Health Commission spokesman Mi Feng said Friday that the "decrease" in numbers was due to an adjustment made in Hubei's count after repetitive counting was discovered.
The ruling Communist Party is seeking to repair public trust broken in 2002 and 2003 during the SARS epidemic, which the government covered up for months. "The current fight against the novel coronavirus epidemic is a major test of China's system and capacity for governance," Chinese President Xi Jinping said during a Communist Party Central Committee meeting Friday, according to state media.
"In response to the shortcomings and deficiencies exposed by the epidemic, (the government) should work to strengthen areas of weakness and close up loopholes," Xi said.
China has imposed unprecedented measures in a sweeping campaign to contain the virus. Cities in Hubei with a combined population of more than 60 million have been placed under lockdown, with outbound transportation halted and virtually all public activities suspended.
People returning to Beijing will now have to isolate themselves either at home or in a concentrated area for medical observation, said a notice from the Chinese capital's prevention and control work group published by state media late Friday.
The notice warns there will be legal consequences for those who don't comply with the 14-day quarantine. It did not elaborate on how the isolation will be enforced. While Beijing returnees were previously ordered to "self-quarantine" for two weeks, that measure allowed for occasional outings and implementation varied across neighborhoods.
Chinese officials have warned that COVID-19 may spread further as migrants return to their jobs in cities or other provinces after a prolonged Lunar New Year holiday.
To accommodate the high number of confirmed and suspected cases, Hubei has constructed makeshift hospitals and reappropriated other public facilities to house patients. At a press briefing in Wuhan on Saturday, the newly appointed head of Hubei's provincial health commission, Wang Hesheng, said they aimed to ensure that zero patients went without treatment.
Last month, members of the Chinese public were outraged when residents of the virus epicenter, Wuhan, shared videos online showing overcrowded hospitals and people being turned away. Some wrote on the Twitter-like Weibo platform that their family members were exhibiting symptoms, but they couldn't get tested because hospitals were at capacity.
More than half of the confirmed cases in Hubei have been treated using traditional Chinese medicine, Wang said. The virus has taken an economic toll, as many countries have placed travel restrictions on recent visitors to China and airlines have suspended China routes due to low demand.
Alibaba, the first major Chinese company to report quarterly earnings since the emergence of the coronavirus, said Thursday that the outbreak "is having significant impact on China's economy ... potentially affecting the global economy."
The overall revenue growth rate at Alibaba will be negatively affected in the quarter ending this March, said Alibaba CEO Daniel Yong Zhang.
Liang Tao, vice chairman of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, said at a Saturday briefing that Chinese banks have provided more than 537 billion yuan ($76.9 billion) in credit support to industries such as retail, catering and tourism that have been most severely affected by the outbreak.
Earlier this week, the government reported that consumer inflation spiked to an eight-year high of 5.4% in January over a year earlier, driven by a 4.4% rise in food costs. But Fan Yifei, vice governor of the People's Bank of China, said he believes "large-scale inflation will never happen" in the country.
A team of experts led by the World Health Organization is slated to begin their mission in China alongside Chinese counterparts this weekend.
"Particular attention will be paid to understanding the transmission of the virus, the severity of the disease and the impact of ongoing response measures," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement.
The U.S. government was preparing to fly home Americans from aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship that's been quarantined at Yokohama in Japan, Wall Street Journal reported.
About 380 Americans and their families will be offered seats on two State Department flights, Henry Walke, director of the Division of Preparedness and Emerging Infections at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told the paper. They are arriving in the U.S. as early as Sunday, he said, adding that those with a fever, cough or other symptoms won't be allowed on the flights.
So far, 218 people from the ship have tested positive for the virus. Japan's Health Ministry allowed 11 passengers to disembark Friday, saying that those above 80 years of age, with underlying medical conditions as well as those staying in windowless cabins during the 14-day quarantine can stay at a designated facility on shore.
https://www.dailysabah.com/asia/2020/02/15/coronavirus-deaths-reach-1523-in-china-new-cases-drop
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIJING
Published15.02.202009:46
Updated15.02.202009:47
In this Friday, Feb. 14, 2020, photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, waving at right, greets travelers arriving at Beijing West Railway Station in Beijing. (AP Photo)
China reported 2,641 new virus cases Saturday as it escalates measures to contain the outbreak and reassure an anxious public. The figure is a major drop from the higher numbers in recent days since a broader diagnostic method was implemented.
The number of new deaths rose slightly to 143, bringing the total fatalities in mainland China to 1,523. The number of confirmed cases in the country now stands at 66,492, according to China's National Health Commission.
COVID-19, a disease stemming from a new form of coronavirus, has spread to more than two dozen countries since December, when the first infections appeared in central China. Egypt on Friday counted the first infection on the African continent.
Saturday marks the second day the number of new cases fell since a spike Thursday, when the hardest-hit province of Hubei began including clinical diagnoses in its official count. Using the wider scope of classification, the central Chinese province reported 15,152 cases, including 13,332 that were diagnosed using doctors' analyses and lung imaging, as opposed to the prior standard of laboratory testing.
Hubei health authorities said in the notice that the new method was adopted to facilitate earlier treatment for those suspected of infection.
Further confusion surfaced around a discrepancy of more than 1,000 cases between the Thursday and Friday reports. National Health Commission spokesman Mi Feng said Friday that the "decrease" in numbers was due to an adjustment made in Hubei's count after repetitive counting was discovered.
The ruling Communist Party is seeking to repair public trust broken in 2002 and 2003 during the SARS epidemic, which the government covered up for months. "The current fight against the novel coronavirus epidemic is a major test of China's system and capacity for governance," Chinese President Xi Jinping said during a Communist Party Central Committee meeting Friday, according to state media.
"In response to the shortcomings and deficiencies exposed by the epidemic, (the government) should work to strengthen areas of weakness and close up loopholes," Xi said.
China has imposed unprecedented measures in a sweeping campaign to contain the virus. Cities in Hubei with a combined population of more than 60 million have been placed under lockdown, with outbound transportation halted and virtually all public activities suspended.
People returning to Beijing will now have to isolate themselves either at home or in a concentrated area for medical observation, said a notice from the Chinese capital's prevention and control work group published by state media late Friday.
The notice warns there will be legal consequences for those who don't comply with the 14-day quarantine. It did not elaborate on how the isolation will be enforced. While Beijing returnees were previously ordered to "self-quarantine" for two weeks, that measure allowed for occasional outings and implementation varied across neighborhoods.
Chinese officials have warned that COVID-19 may spread further as migrants return to their jobs in cities or other provinces after a prolonged Lunar New Year holiday.
To accommodate the high number of confirmed and suspected cases, Hubei has constructed makeshift hospitals and reappropriated other public facilities to house patients. At a press briefing in Wuhan on Saturday, the newly appointed head of Hubei's provincial health commission, Wang Hesheng, said they aimed to ensure that zero patients went without treatment.
Last month, members of the Chinese public were outraged when residents of the virus epicenter, Wuhan, shared videos online showing overcrowded hospitals and people being turned away. Some wrote on the Twitter-like Weibo platform that their family members were exhibiting symptoms, but they couldn't get tested because hospitals were at capacity.
More than half of the confirmed cases in Hubei have been treated using traditional Chinese medicine, Wang said. The virus has taken an economic toll, as many countries have placed travel restrictions on recent visitors to China and airlines have suspended China routes due to low demand.
Alibaba, the first major Chinese company to report quarterly earnings since the emergence of the coronavirus, said Thursday that the outbreak "is having significant impact on China's economy ... potentially affecting the global economy."
The overall revenue growth rate at Alibaba will be negatively affected in the quarter ending this March, said Alibaba CEO Daniel Yong Zhang.
Liang Tao, vice chairman of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, said at a Saturday briefing that Chinese banks have provided more than 537 billion yuan ($76.9 billion) in credit support to industries such as retail, catering and tourism that have been most severely affected by the outbreak.
Earlier this week, the government reported that consumer inflation spiked to an eight-year high of 5.4% in January over a year earlier, driven by a 4.4% rise in food costs. But Fan Yifei, vice governor of the People's Bank of China, said he believes "large-scale inflation will never happen" in the country.
A team of experts led by the World Health Organization is slated to begin their mission in China alongside Chinese counterparts this weekend.
"Particular attention will be paid to understanding the transmission of the virus, the severity of the disease and the impact of ongoing response measures," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement.
The U.S. government was preparing to fly home Americans from aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship that's been quarantined at Yokohama in Japan, Wall Street Journal reported.
About 380 Americans and their families will be offered seats on two State Department flights, Henry Walke, director of the Division of Preparedness and Emerging Infections at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told the paper. They are arriving in the U.S. as early as Sunday, he said, adding that those with a fever, cough or other symptoms won't be allowed on the flights.
So far, 218 people from the ship have tested positive for the virus. Japan's Health Ministry allowed 11 passengers to disembark Friday, saying that those above 80 years of age, with underlying medical conditions as well as those staying in windowless cabins during the 14-day quarantine can stay at a designated facility on shore.
https://www.dailysabah.com/asia/2020/02/15/coronavirus-deaths-reach-1523-in-china-new-cases-drop
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Infection cases of new coronavirus further spread in Japan
TOKYO - Infections of a new coronavirus originating in Wuhan further spread in Japan among people with no direct connections to China as new cases were reported in Tokyo, Aichi, Hokkaido and Okinawa on Friday.
The latest cases in Tokyo and Hokkaido involved people with no recent travel history to China and came on the heels of Japan's first coronavirus death -- that of a woman in her 80s in Kanagawa Prefecture, whose son-in-law, a taxi driver, was also found to be infected with the virus.
The Tokyo metropolitan government said two additional people in Tokyo who have tested positive for the virus had been in close contact with the taxi driver, with both hospitalized but not in serious condition.
One was a worker on a traditional "yakatabune" roofed party boat on which the taxi driver attended a New Year's party held Jan. 18 with his wife, while the other did not attend the party but is a staffer of a taxi union the driver belongs to, the Tokyo government said.
The boat worker had also previously come into contact with travelers from China's Hubei Province, it said.
The government will carry out tests on some 100 people, including around 80 party attendees, who came into close contact with the taxi driver. Around 10 have so far complained of a fever and other symptoms, it said.
So far, more than 250 people in Japan -- 218 of whom are passengers and crew from a cruise ship quarantined in Yokohama -- have been found to be infected with the pneumonia-causing virus.
While health minister Katsunobu Kato said there is "no reason for changing the government position that it has yet to reach a state of epidemic in Japan," infection of a Hokkaido resident in his 50s with no recent history of traveling abroad has been confirmed, the Hokkaido government said. The man is being treated at a hospital where he remains in serious condition.
In Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, a man in his 60s who recently returned from a trip to Hawaii has tested positive for the coronavirus, the city government said. He has not visited China recently.
In cases reported Thursday in the western prefecture of Wakayama, a route of contraction is not known, either.
A man in his 70s who was treated at a hospital in Wakayama where a doctor was confirmed to have been infected with the virus has also tested positive for it, local officials said Friday, adding that the two apparently never had any contact.
Wakayama Gov. Yoshinobu Nisaka said, however, he does not think infections are spreading inside the Saiseikai Arida Hospital in Yuasa, where the man, a farmer, was briefly hospitalized from last week.
A local government official warned that infections could be spreading outside of the medical facility as the man developed symptoms before he visited the hospital on Feb. 6.
The surgeon in his 50s at the hospital was confirmed Thursday to have become the first doctor in Japan to be infected with the virus that causes the disease now known as COVID-19.
The surgeon has not traveled overseas recently or had close contact with visitors from China.
The farmer, whose infection with the virus was also confirmed Thursday, has developed severe pneumonia and is now being treated at a different medical facility, the prefectural government said.
A health-care center is working to confirm who has been in close contact with him, the local government said, adding it is currently unknown whether he recently traveled overseas.
Besides the surgeon and the farmer, another doctor and two patients at the hospital have developed pneumonia. One of the patients, a woman, has already tested negative for the virus, but local authorities say they will conduct a fresh test on her and also screen the doctor and the other patient.
Elsewhere in Japan, a female taxi driver in her 60s in Okinawa tested positive for the virus, becoming the first confirmed case of infection in the country's southernmost island prefecture or the Kyushu region, local authorities said.
The quarantined cruise ship Diamond Princess previously made a stop in Naha, the Okinawa Prefecture capital.
The driver is highly likely to have come into contact with someone on the vessel when it arrived on Feb. 1, the Okinawa government said.
Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki said Friday that the woman is currently being treated at a designated medical facility and is in a stable condition.
The health minister indicated the possibility of expanding the scope of screening, which is currently limited to people who have traveled to and from or have had exposure to people from China's Hubei and Zhejiang provinces.
Meanwhile, a group of Japanese nationals who evacuated from Wuhan on the second chartered aircraft sent to the Chinese city by the government amid the virus outbreak departed from state facilities where they have been staying since arriving in Tokyo on Jan. 30.
The 199 returnees all tested negative for the virus following a 12.5-day monitoring period. The first group of Wuhan evacuees left for home Thursday after undergoing the same procedures.
Among people brought back on the third charter flight on Jan. 31 and held under observation since, a woman in her 60s tested positive for the virus, the health ministry said. She has not shown any symptoms, it added.
The government has already sent four chartered planes and repatriated a total of 763 people from Wuhan and other areas of Hubei Province amid a wide-scale lockdown of the area.
It is planning to send a fifth plane on Sunday to bring home more Japanese and family members who wish to leave the city, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said.
Some elderly passengers on the quarantined cruise ship docked in Yokohama, near Tokyo, disembarked from the vessel Friday afternoon and arrived at a state-run facility in Wako, Saitama Prefecture.
With those infected on the Diamond Princess having been taken to hospitals, about 3,400 passengers and crew remain quarantined on the ship. The health ministry had initially planned to keep all of them confined on the vessel until next Wednesday, when the monitoring period ends.
But it decided to allow those aged 80 and older who have pre-existing conditions or are staying inside cabins without windows, together with people traveling with them, to leave the ship after screening for infections.
The health ministry said later Friday that a Kanagawa government official who was supporting the transfer of infected passengers to hospitals has been confirmed to be infected with the coronavirus.
With the government scrambling to contain the virus, the Cabinet has decided to use 10.3 billion yen ($94 million) from Japan's reserve funds for measures to stem the outbreak.
Under a hastily compiled policy package worth 15.3 billion yen in total, the government will allocate most of the funds to meet emergency needs, ranging from developing rapid-test kits and a possible vaccine to enabling more hospitals to better treat symptoms caused by the virus.
Infection cases of new coronavirus further spread in Japan
TOKYO - Infections of a new coronavirus originating in Wuhan further spread in Japan among people with no direct connections to China as new cases were reported in Tokyo, Aichi, Hokkaido and Okinawa on Friday.
The latest cases in Tokyo and Hokkaido involved people with no recent travel history to China and came on the heels of Japan's first coronavirus death -- that of a woman in her 80s in Kanagawa Prefecture, whose son-in-law, a taxi driver, was also found to be infected with the virus.
The Tokyo metropolitan government said two additional people in Tokyo who have tested positive for the virus had been in close contact with the taxi driver, with both hospitalized but not in serious condition.
One was a worker on a traditional "yakatabune" roofed party boat on which the taxi driver attended a New Year's party held Jan. 18 with his wife, while the other did not attend the party but is a staffer of a taxi union the driver belongs to, the Tokyo government said.
The boat worker had also previously come into contact with travelers from China's Hubei Province, it said.
The government will carry out tests on some 100 people, including around 80 party attendees, who came into close contact with the taxi driver. Around 10 have so far complained of a fever and other symptoms, it said.
So far, more than 250 people in Japan -- 218 of whom are passengers and crew from a cruise ship quarantined in Yokohama -- have been found to be infected with the pneumonia-causing virus.
While health minister Katsunobu Kato said there is "no reason for changing the government position that it has yet to reach a state of epidemic in Japan," infection of a Hokkaido resident in his 50s with no recent history of traveling abroad has been confirmed, the Hokkaido government said. The man is being treated at a hospital where he remains in serious condition.
In Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, a man in his 60s who recently returned from a trip to Hawaii has tested positive for the coronavirus, the city government said. He has not visited China recently.
In cases reported Thursday in the western prefecture of Wakayama, a route of contraction is not known, either.
A man in his 70s who was treated at a hospital in Wakayama where a doctor was confirmed to have been infected with the virus has also tested positive for it, local officials said Friday, adding that the two apparently never had any contact.
Wakayama Gov. Yoshinobu Nisaka said, however, he does not think infections are spreading inside the Saiseikai Arida Hospital in Yuasa, where the man, a farmer, was briefly hospitalized from last week.
A local government official warned that infections could be spreading outside of the medical facility as the man developed symptoms before he visited the hospital on Feb. 6.
The surgeon in his 50s at the hospital was confirmed Thursday to have become the first doctor in Japan to be infected with the virus that causes the disease now known as COVID-19.
The surgeon has not traveled overseas recently or had close contact with visitors from China.
The farmer, whose infection with the virus was also confirmed Thursday, has developed severe pneumonia and is now being treated at a different medical facility, the prefectural government said.
A health-care center is working to confirm who has been in close contact with him, the local government said, adding it is currently unknown whether he recently traveled overseas.
Besides the surgeon and the farmer, another doctor and two patients at the hospital have developed pneumonia. One of the patients, a woman, has already tested negative for the virus, but local authorities say they will conduct a fresh test on her and also screen the doctor and the other patient.
Elsewhere in Japan, a female taxi driver in her 60s in Okinawa tested positive for the virus, becoming the first confirmed case of infection in the country's southernmost island prefecture or the Kyushu region, local authorities said.
The quarantined cruise ship Diamond Princess previously made a stop in Naha, the Okinawa Prefecture capital.
The driver is highly likely to have come into contact with someone on the vessel when it arrived on Feb. 1, the Okinawa government said.
Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki said Friday that the woman is currently being treated at a designated medical facility and is in a stable condition.
The health minister indicated the possibility of expanding the scope of screening, which is currently limited to people who have traveled to and from or have had exposure to people from China's Hubei and Zhejiang provinces.
Meanwhile, a group of Japanese nationals who evacuated from Wuhan on the second chartered aircraft sent to the Chinese city by the government amid the virus outbreak departed from state facilities where they have been staying since arriving in Tokyo on Jan. 30.
The 199 returnees all tested negative for the virus following a 12.5-day monitoring period. The first group of Wuhan evacuees left for home Thursday after undergoing the same procedures.
Among people brought back on the third charter flight on Jan. 31 and held under observation since, a woman in her 60s tested positive for the virus, the health ministry said. She has not shown any symptoms, it added.
The government has already sent four chartered planes and repatriated a total of 763 people from Wuhan and other areas of Hubei Province amid a wide-scale lockdown of the area.
It is planning to send a fifth plane on Sunday to bring home more Japanese and family members who wish to leave the city, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said.
Some elderly passengers on the quarantined cruise ship docked in Yokohama, near Tokyo, disembarked from the vessel Friday afternoon and arrived at a state-run facility in Wako, Saitama Prefecture.
With those infected on the Diamond Princess having been taken to hospitals, about 3,400 passengers and crew remain quarantined on the ship. The health ministry had initially planned to keep all of them confined on the vessel until next Wednesday, when the monitoring period ends.
But it decided to allow those aged 80 and older who have pre-existing conditions or are staying inside cabins without windows, together with people traveling with them, to leave the ship after screening for infections.
The health ministry said later Friday that a Kanagawa government official who was supporting the transfer of infected passengers to hospitals has been confirmed to be infected with the coronavirus.
With the government scrambling to contain the virus, the Cabinet has decided to use 10.3 billion yen ($94 million) from Japan's reserve funds for measures to stem the outbreak.
Under a hastily compiled policy package worth 15.3 billion yen in total, the government will allocate most of the funds to meet emergency needs, ranging from developing rapid-test kits and a possible vaccine to enabling more hospitals to better treat symptoms caused by the virus.
China Focus: More plants join mask production to fight coronavirus
SHENYANG, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- A garment plant in Fushun, northeast China's Liaoning Province, recently purchased 10 tonnes of medical nonwoven fabric and began producing masks.
"About 20 workers at the plant can produce over 5,000 masks a day," said the head of the company. These masks are expected to be delivered to medics at the front lines of the battle against the novel coronavirus.
Many factories across the country have suspended their own production and turned to manufacturing medical supplies to fill the demand gap amid the outbreak.
Data from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the country's top economic planner, showed China produces about half of the world's masks with a daily output of 20 million. But that is still insufficient to meet the exploding demand.
Even global stocks of personal protection equipment are raising red flags, according to the World Health Organization.
Since masks are not a complicated product and can be manufactured by an existing production line without much retrofitting, China has encouraged factories to join the production of protective masks to increase supply.
On Feb. 6, Liuzhou-based auto maker SGMW in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region announced that it will revamp 14 production lines to produce N95 and other surgical masks with a daily output expected to reach more than 1.7 million.
A Foxconn plant also began trial-producing masks on Feb. 5 and is applying for product qualification certification.
Data from Tianyancha.com, an online database query platform, showed over 3,000 companies in China have added "masks, protective clothing, disinfectant, thermometers and medical equipment" to their business scope between Jan. 1 and Feb. 7.
Many local governments have also rolled out supportive policies such as fund subsidies, fast approval, financing and manpower support to help factories switch production.
Five years ago, a medical science and technology company in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province, closed its production line for surgical masks due to poor management. After learning that the company still kept the equipment and factory, the local government helped it re-register its business license in a day and allocated funds to help resume production within days.
"We now can produce 20,000 medical protective masks a day and the daily output is estimated to reach 220,000 when a new line enters production in about 20 days," said Gao Wei, the company's general manager.
Some manufacturers expressed concern over overcapacity after the epidemic. In response, Lian Weiliang, deputy director of the NDRC, said the government would be the ultimate buyer if the market could not consume all the products.
More than 76 percent of mask production capacity in China's 22 provincial regions had been resumed by Monday, according to Cong Liang, secretary-general of the NDRC.
Production of face masks speeding up
Front-line medical workers' needs have been guaranteed, official says
China is able to serve front-line healthcare workers' urgent needs for medical masks to fight the novel coronavirus pneumonia outbreak, as the country's current manufacturing of masks is at 94 percent of capacity, the country's top economic regulator said on Thursday.
Under joint efforts to actively resume work and speed up production of medical protective equipment, China has witnessed a rapid growth in the production of masks day by day, Xia Nong, an official at the National Development and Reform Commission, said during a news conference in Beijing.
"Through the unified national allocation of medical resources, medical workers' needs for masks have been guaranteed," Xia said.
The NDRC has been working hard to step up production of medical supplies, including offering support for those that need to restore or expand their production capacity, as part of its larger efforts to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus and guarantee stable economic operations.
As of Tuesday, production capability of urgently needed N95 medical masks in China has been expanded to 128 percent of the normal level, and those producing surgical masks had boosted their capability 106 percent, NDRC data showed.
"Notably, in key provinces with more than 1,000 confirmed cases, the production of N95 medical masks has also risen in varying degrees," Xia added.
Hubei province, epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, reported its daily production of N95 medical masks jumped from 45,000 on Feb 2 to 158,000 on Tuesday, according to Xia. As of Tuesday, daily production of N95 medical masks in Henan, Zhejiang and Guangdong province reached 14,000, 100,000 and 40,000 respectively.
According to Xia, the NDRC will resolve any issues that mask manufacturers are facing such as financing or supply of materials, and will increase mask supplies for key provinces and sectors hit badly by the coronavirus.
"On the basis of virus prevention and control, we'll strive to fully restore the production and then further boost the capacity," Xia said.
Cao Xuejun, deputy director of the consumer products industry department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said as the fight against the outbreak continues, the demand for protective suits is soaring, and companies are under huge pressure to provide enough supplies.
According to Cao, the ministry will motivate some companies to revamp their plants to produce protective suits and ensure the supplies of key raw materials needed to make the medical equipment.
When it comes to disinfectant, one among many desired medical goods, the ministry said China currently has 563 enterprises that make disinfectant and sterilization products.
Currently, the overall domestic production capacity of disinfectant is enough to meet the public demand, but more efforts are needed to produce smaller-bottled disinfectants that have been in greater demand recently, Cao added.
SHENYANG, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- A garment plant in Fushun, northeast China's Liaoning Province, recently purchased 10 tonnes of medical nonwoven fabric and began producing masks.
"About 20 workers at the plant can produce over 5,000 masks a day," said the head of the company. These masks are expected to be delivered to medics at the front lines of the battle against the novel coronavirus.
Many factories across the country have suspended their own production and turned to manufacturing medical supplies to fill the demand gap amid the outbreak.
Data from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the country's top economic planner, showed China produces about half of the world's masks with a daily output of 20 million. But that is still insufficient to meet the exploding demand.
Even global stocks of personal protection equipment are raising red flags, according to the World Health Organization.
Since masks are not a complicated product and can be manufactured by an existing production line without much retrofitting, China has encouraged factories to join the production of protective masks to increase supply.
On Feb. 6, Liuzhou-based auto maker SGMW in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region announced that it will revamp 14 production lines to produce N95 and other surgical masks with a daily output expected to reach more than 1.7 million.
A Foxconn plant also began trial-producing masks on Feb. 5 and is applying for product qualification certification.
Data from Tianyancha.com, an online database query platform, showed over 3,000 companies in China have added "masks, protective clothing, disinfectant, thermometers and medical equipment" to their business scope between Jan. 1 and Feb. 7.
Many local governments have also rolled out supportive policies such as fund subsidies, fast approval, financing and manpower support to help factories switch production.
Five years ago, a medical science and technology company in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province, closed its production line for surgical masks due to poor management. After learning that the company still kept the equipment and factory, the local government helped it re-register its business license in a day and allocated funds to help resume production within days.
"We now can produce 20,000 medical protective masks a day and the daily output is estimated to reach 220,000 when a new line enters production in about 20 days," said Gao Wei, the company's general manager.
Some manufacturers expressed concern over overcapacity after the epidemic. In response, Lian Weiliang, deputy director of the NDRC, said the government would be the ultimate buyer if the market could not consume all the products.
More than 76 percent of mask production capacity in China's 22 provincial regions had been resumed by Monday, according to Cong Liang, secretary-general of the NDRC.
Production of face masks speeding up
Front-line medical workers' needs have been guaranteed, official says
China is able to serve front-line healthcare workers' urgent needs for medical masks to fight the novel coronavirus pneumonia outbreak, as the country's current manufacturing of masks is at 94 percent of capacity, the country's top economic regulator said on Thursday.
Under joint efforts to actively resume work and speed up production of medical protective equipment, China has witnessed a rapid growth in the production of masks day by day, Xia Nong, an official at the National Development and Reform Commission, said during a news conference in Beijing.
"Through the unified national allocation of medical resources, medical workers' needs for masks have been guaranteed," Xia said.
The NDRC has been working hard to step up production of medical supplies, including offering support for those that need to restore or expand their production capacity, as part of its larger efforts to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus and guarantee stable economic operations.
As of Tuesday, production capability of urgently needed N95 medical masks in China has been expanded to 128 percent of the normal level, and those producing surgical masks had boosted their capability 106 percent, NDRC data showed.
"Notably, in key provinces with more than 1,000 confirmed cases, the production of N95 medical masks has also risen in varying degrees," Xia added.
Hubei province, epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, reported its daily production of N95 medical masks jumped from 45,000 on Feb 2 to 158,000 on Tuesday, according to Xia. As of Tuesday, daily production of N95 medical masks in Henan, Zhejiang and Guangdong province reached 14,000, 100,000 and 40,000 respectively.
According to Xia, the NDRC will resolve any issues that mask manufacturers are facing such as financing or supply of materials, and will increase mask supplies for key provinces and sectors hit badly by the coronavirus.
"On the basis of virus prevention and control, we'll strive to fully restore the production and then further boost the capacity," Xia said.
Cao Xuejun, deputy director of the consumer products industry department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said as the fight against the outbreak continues, the demand for protective suits is soaring, and companies are under huge pressure to provide enough supplies.
According to Cao, the ministry will motivate some companies to revamp their plants to produce protective suits and ensure the supplies of key raw materials needed to make the medical equipment.
When it comes to disinfectant, one among many desired medical goods, the ministry said China currently has 563 enterprises that make disinfectant and sterilization products.
Currently, the overall domestic production capacity of disinfectant is enough to meet the public demand, but more efforts are needed to produce smaller-bottled disinfectants that have been in greater demand recently, Cao added.
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UPDATE 2-American from cruise ship docked in Cambodia tests positive in Malaysia for coronavirus
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KUALA LUMPUR/SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia, Feb 15 (Reuters) - An 83-year-old American woman who had been a passenger on a cruise ship that docked in Cambodia after being shunned by other countries has tested positive for the new coronavirus in Malaysia, health authorities said on Saturday.
She was the first passenger on the MS Westerdam, operated by Carnival Corp unit Holland America Inc, to test positive for the virus.
The ship docked in the Cambodian port of Sihanoukville on Thursday carrying 1,455 passengers and 802 crew. It had spent two weeks at sea after being turned away by Japan, Taiwan, Guam, the Philippines and Thailand.
The passengers were tested regularly on board and Cambodia also tested 20 once it docked. None was found to have the new coronavirus that has killed more than 1,500 people, the vast majority in China.
The American woman flew to Malaysia on Friday from Cambodia along with 144 others from the ship, the Malaysian health ministry said in a statement, adding that she was in stable condition.
(Updates with Malaysia comments on American passenger testing positive)
KUALA LUMPUR/SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia, Feb 15 (Reuters) - An 83-year-old American woman who had been a passenger on a cruise ship that docked in Cambodia after being shunned by other countries has tested positive for the new coronavirus in Malaysia, health authorities said on Saturday.
She was the first passenger on the MS Westerdam, operated by Carnival Corp unit Holland America Inc, to test positive for the virus.
The ship docked in the Cambodian port of Sihanoukville on Thursday carrying 1,455 passengers and 802 crew. It had spent two weeks at sea after being turned away by Japan, Taiwan, Guam, the Philippines and Thailand.
The passengers were tested regularly on board and Cambodia also tested 20 once it docked. None was found to have the new coronavirus that has killed more than 1,500 people, the vast majority in China.
The American woman flew to Malaysia on Friday from Cambodia along with 144 others from the ship, the Malaysian health ministry said in a statement, adding that she was in stable condition.
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Eight of nine UK patients receiving treatment discharged
All but one of the nine people being treated for the coronavirus in the UK have been discharged from hospital.
They were discharged after twice testing negative for the virus, NHS England said on Saturday.
Meanwhile, all 94 people who were being quarantined at Arrowe Park hospital on the Wirral have left the site.
The patients were among the first British coronavirus evacuees flown back to the UK from Wuhan, China, which is the centre of the outbreak.
More than 100 people are still in quarantine in a Milton Keynes hotel after arriving from China last weekend.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: "I want to stress that any individuals who are discharged from hospital are now well and do not pose any public health risk to the public."
Among those to have been discharged are five members of the ski group who were treated at the Royal Free and Guy's and St Thomas', both in London.
Four adults and a child were diagnosed with the virus after coming into contact with Steve Walsh, from Hove, while at a French ski resort on his way home from Singapore.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-51514628
All but one of the nine people being treated for the coronavirus in the UK have been discharged from hospital.
They were discharged after twice testing negative for the virus, NHS England said on Saturday.
Meanwhile, all 94 people who were being quarantined at Arrowe Park hospital on the Wirral have left the site.
The patients were among the first British coronavirus evacuees flown back to the UK from Wuhan, China, which is the centre of the outbreak.
More than 100 people are still in quarantine in a Milton Keynes hotel after arriving from China last weekend.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: "I want to stress that any individuals who are discharged from hospital are now well and do not pose any public health risk to the public."
Among those to have been discharged are five members of the ski group who were treated at the Royal Free and Guy's and St Thomas', both in London.
Four adults and a child were diagnosed with the virus after coming into contact with Steve Walsh, from Hove, while at a French ski resort on his way home from Singapore.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-51514628
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Already explained in yesterday's news conference. This happened in a location of the new built Leishenshan modular hospital that was still under construction and had not yet been handed over to the medical team. Problem rectified before handover from contractor.
Jennifer HY Chan is a hardcore pro-independent anti China Hongkong blackshirt who will pull all out mis-information to trash China.
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