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Wuhan’s ‘Bat woman’ says coronavirus is “just the tip of the iceberg”

  
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Shi Zhengli is known as China’s “bat woman” due to her work as deputy director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology

  • Is a virologist recognised internationally for her work on coronavirus in bats
Speaking in an interview on Chinese state television she said viruses being discovered now are “just the tip of the iceberg”
  • called for international cooperation in the fight against epidemics
  • research into viruses needs scientists and governments to be transparent and cooperative
  • “If we want to prevent human beings from suffering from the next infectious disease outbreak, we must go in advance to learn of these unknown viruses carried by wild animals in nature and give early warnings”
  • “If we don’t study them there will possibly be another outbreak.”
Comes via Bloomberg, more here at the link
Shi Zhengli is known as China's "bat woman" due to her work as deputy director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology

China’s Wuhan has officially banned the eating of wild animals

  
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Wuhan was the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic in China. Its a big city, with a population of around 11m people.

City authorities there have officially banned the eating of all wild animals,
  • Wuhan will become a “wildlife sanctuary”
  • virtually all hunting of wild animals to be banned (exception for “scientific research, population regulation, monitoring of epidemic diseases and other special circumstances”).
  • also introduced controls on the breeding of all wild animals
  • prohibiting any to be reared for food
The coronavirus spread from bats to people in wet markets in the city.
Wuhan was the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic in China. Its a big city, with a population of around 11m people. 

Coronavirus – China’s Global Times says “actual number of overall infections … unknown”

  
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Here is a piece ion China’s GT on what is going in Wuhan, the centre of the virus outbreak:

  • Wuhan was still confronted with a severe situation with slow progress. 
  • The actual number of overall infections in the city where the virus originated in December 2019 remained unknown; the number of reported cases in the city accounting for a large portion of total infections in China. 
  • And despite over three weeks of city lockdown, the human-to-human transmission still continued and many patients could still not be treated in time, according to medical experts and observers.
  • It’s time to sound horns for a full-scale mobilization of Wuhan people, 
Link here for more
Here is a piece ion China's GT on what is going in Wuhan, the centre of the virus outbreak:

China says that preventing people from entering borders is unreasonable

  
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But isn’t that what they are doing in Wuhan?

I’m sure China isn’t too happy about the negative attention it is getting in the media because of the coronavirus outbreak situation.

But I don’t think you can blame others for taking more drastic action in order to err on the side of caution when there is still limited information regarding the virus itself.

The fact that we are seeing countries such as Singapore and New Zealand stepping up security travel measures may yet potentially spark others to do the same, and that is something China isn’t too happy about I reckon.

Check this out to put the coronavirus impact into perspective

  
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This is one perspective, there will be others.

  • When the SARS epidemic hit in 2003 China had an economy size aroiund USD 1.7 tln
  • Today it is nearly an order of magnitude larger, around USD 13.7 tln
  • & China’s economy accounts for around a third of global GDP growth

ps.  this from Apple’s Tim Cook on what is happening with his business in China this week:

  • “We have closed one of our retail stores and a number of channel partners have also closed their store fronts. Our sales within the Wuhan areas are small, but retail traffic has also been impacted cross the country (China) in the last few days.”

Bolding mine.

Multiply the impact on traffic to Apple stores across the economy.

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Coronavirus: British nationals returning from Wuhan to be quarantined for two weeks

  
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All 1,500 people who have flown in from Wuhan since mid-January will be asked to remain in isolation for at least a fortnight reports the UK Telegraph (link may be gated)

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Health officials are now attempting to track cases to make sure they stay in their homes
  • But it is understood that they only have contact details for one in 10 cases who arrived on such flights.
Another 200 British nationals stranded in Wuhan.
All 1,500 people who have flown in from Wuhan since mid-January will be asked to remain in isolation for at least a fortnight reports the UK Telegraph (link may be gated) 

Expert says coronavirus could be “at least” ten times worse than SARS

  
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Comments after visiting Wuhan

Comments after visiting Wuhan
Guan Yi, director of the State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases at Hong Kong University, traveled to Wuhan on Tuesday and Wednesday and now he’s warning that the disease could be a generational pandemic.
“My conservative estimate is that this epidemic could end up at least 10 times the scale of Sars [severe acute respiratory disease],” he told Caixin today.
There are signs China is planning to lock down a second city. At midnight, all public transport in Huanggang will be halted. It’s a city of 7.5 million located 70km east of Wuhan.
Dr. Guan said he left Wuhan convinced that “the epidemic situation was out of control.”
“I’ve experienced so much and I’ve never felt scared before,” he said. “But this time I’m scared.”
He said that models suggest that due to incubation lags, symptoms may appear more broadly across China beginning on Saturday.
SARS infected 8,089 people globally and killed 774 with China accounting for the vast majority. It curbed Chinese GDP growth in 2003 by 0.8-2.0 percentage points.
If this video of a hospital in Wuhan is authentic, then watch out. The announcement of a plan to build a special hospital in the city in six days suggests there is overwhelming demand.
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