In India the situation of coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is under control. So far only two cases of coronavirus have been reported from Indian state of Kerala.
Bangladesh is so far safe from Coronavirus. No report of infection till now. 318 Bangladeshi people have arrived from Wuhan city who are under observation and subjected to 14 days isolation. 7 of them sent to hospital for further check up who are marked free from virus after checking.
In India today the third case of coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has been reported from the state of Kerala. The first two cases were also reported from the same Indian state. All 3 patients had recently returned from Wuhan, China.
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/kerala-now-confirms-third-case-of-coronavirus-1642789-2020-02-03
In Iraq, we have no Coronavirus yet according to the Ministry of Health, so we hope all countries are always free from this dreaded virus.
Corona is a virus in Iraq so far, no cases have been recorded, but there are people from China who have come to Iraq and are now held in a private hospital until they prove their safety.
February 8, 2019: A US national in China has become the first foreigner confirmed to have died from the new coronavirus, while a Japanese man also died after symptoms consistent with the disease, authorities have said.
Officials announced the death toll rose to 724 with 86 more people dying in mainland China – the highest one-day jump so far – as the toll closed in on the 774 killed worldwide during the 2002-2003 Sars epidemic.
Till the moment Nepal is also safe from it. One suspected case of corona virus was detected but he also got full recovery.
New corona virus viable for up to nine days on smooth surfaces - wear personal protective equipment! Wash your hands!
A team of German scientists from Greifswald and Bochum has published a research article on the survivability of the new corona virus. This suggests that the new corona virus is viable and contagious for up to nine days on smooth surfaces.
Here is the message from n-tv:
"The novel corona virus can survive on surfaces outside the human body for up to nine days - and still be contagious, as a German research team finds out. However, the scientists are also finding a way to massively decimate the virus.
Corona viruses can remain on surfaces for up to nine days at room temperature and remain infectious. On average, they survive between four and five days, writes a research team from Greifswald and Bochum in the "Journal of Hospital Infection".
"Cold and high humidity increase their lifespan," said Günter Kampf from the Institute for Hygiene and Environmental Medicine at the University Medical Center Greifswald.
Since there is no specific therapy against coronaviruses, the prevention of infections is important. Like all droplet infections, the virus spreads through the hands and surfaces that are touched frequently.
"In the hospital this could be doorknobs, for example, but also bells, bedside tables, bed frames and other objects in the immediate vicinity of patients," Kampf said.
Together with the virologist Eike Steinmann from the Ruhr University Bochum, Kampf had compiled findings from studies on coronaviruses and their inactivation for a planned specialist book.
Due to the current situation, they published the scientific facts in advance.
They believe that their findings about other coronaviruses are transferable to the new 2019-nCoV virus.
"Different coronaviruses were tested and the results were all similar," said Steinmann. For disinfection, the researchers recommend agents based on ethanol, hydrogen peroxide or sodium hypochlorite.
If these are used in the correct concentration, they drastically reduce the number of infectious corona viruses within one minute - from one million to only 100 disease-causing particles.
If preparations based on other active substances were used, they should at least have a limited effect against viruses.
"As a rule, this is enough to significantly reduce the risk of infection," said Kampf. Other researchers had previously recommended hand washing more often. "
Source: n-tv.de, URL: https://www.n-tv.de/wissen/Coronavirus-ueberleben-tagelang-auf-Flaechen-article21562809.html
Some experts are very alerted that there are no news from Africa about nCoV... Africa is very much depending from China economically today but regared as not prepared at all... 3 Options: - Nothing happens (Lucky us) - Nothing is reported (well the wave may be coming) - Nobody realizes that nCoV is happening (the wave may be coming)...
The above said paper is available here:
https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S0195-6701(20)30046-3/fulltext
"Summary
Currently, the emergence of a novel human coronavirus, temporary named 2019-nCoV, has become a global health concern causing severe respiratory tract infections in humans. Human-to-human transmissions have been described with incubation times between 2-10 days, facilitating its spread via droplets, contaminated hands or surfaces. We therefore reviewed the literature on all available information about the persistence of human and veterinary coronaviruses on inanimate surfaces as well as inactivation strategies with biocidal agents used for chemical disinfection, e.g. in healthcare facilities. The analysis of 22 studies reveals that human coronaviruses such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) coronavirus, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus or endemic human coronaviruses (HCoV) can persist on inanimate surfaces like metal, glass or plastic for up to 9 days, but can be efficiently inactivated by surface disinfection procedures with 62-71% ethanol, 0.5% hydrogen peroxide or 0.1% sodium hypochlorite within 1 minute. Other biocidal agents such as 0.05-0.2% benzalkonium chloride or 0.02% chlorhexidine digluconate are less effective. As no specific therapies are available for 2019-nCoV, early containment and prevention of further spread will be crucial to stop the ongoing outbreak and to control this novel infectious thread."
No case of coronavirus has been reported so far in Pakistan.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2152360/1-no-coronavirus-case-reported-pakistan/?amp=1
No case of 2019-ncov detected in Democratic republic of Congo in central Africa to date according to the Ministry of Health. The country is in alert with surveillance at every entry point. Experts from the National Institute of Biomedical Research (INRB) have been trained last week by WHO, AFRICA CDC and Institut Pasteur in Dakar (Senegal) in the diagnostic of the virus.
Today's situation can be seen on the WHO website here, see http://who.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/c88e37cfc43b4ed3baf977d77e4a0667
Third coronavirus patient admitted in Kerala got discharged today. On 6th February 2020, Kerala health department was confirmed the third case of coronavirus affected patient. We proud of our health department and the minister K K Shailaja who tackled NIPAH virus in 2018 and Coronavirus now.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/indias-third-coronavirus-patient-discharged-from-hospital-in-kerala/articleshow/74222136.cms
In Iraq , today the first case of coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has been recorded.
For Latvia- currently no cases. We have specialists, but no adequate hospitals.
It looks scary, take care brothers and sisters. This link gives current status of Coronavirus affected area and numbers.
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html?fbclid=IwAR3H62XsmIBPaHvBjfkR7KrM82gZ8SnLDMZbkwFpS3NiB5jJNRiCUm4f9Is#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
Article CLINICAL RESEARCH AND ROLE OF DIETARY SUPPLEMENT IN THE TREA...
Update as of today in Germany there are 799 infected persons in quarantaine, yet.
Update from Germany (again 8.3.2020): there are 1.052 confirmed Covid-19 cases in quarantaine...
Today's Update from Germany: 1,188 confirmed Covid-19 cases, 2 death (78 and 89 years old)...
Dear all, dear Brigid,
here ia a report on the run for a Covid-19 vaccine and how Standards will be lowered in order to get one quickly, See
https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/medizin/coronavirus-der-wettlauf-um-einen-impfstoff-birgt-risiken-fuer-probanden-a-67c9f788-0a52-4e5f-8446-51f7cebacb4c?sara_ecid=soci_upd_wbMbjhOSvViISjc8RPU89NcCvtlFcJ
again about data and its source; the best site is considered to be the interactive map from Johns Hopkins University and they are also pooling data from the WHO and various source, see their FAQs
"What are the sources of data informing the dashboard?
The data sources include the World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, the National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China, local media reports, local health departments, and the DXY, one of the world’s largest online communities for physicians, health care professionals, pharmacies and facilities."Source: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map-faq.html
NB: Data on corona virus spread is only as good as the number of suspected cases are really tested andm the government is not trying to cover data from the public...
Italy, Austria, Spain, France and even Germany are closing down their normal life... Shopping centers are closing, Hotels/Hostels are closing, holidays are cancelled, homeoffice is a new word that hits reality in many companies/authorities.
Twitter message on flattening the curve, see
"Our #FlattenTheCurve graphic is now up on @Wikipedia with proper attribution & a CC-BY-SA licence. Please share far & wide and translate it into any language you can! Details in the thread below. #Covid_19 #COVID2019 #COVID19 #coronavirus Thanks to @XTOTL & @TheSpinoffTV"
BREAKING NEWs: Spain corrected infected (over 11,000 now) and deaths (about 500 now) and 148 countries affected globally...
As of today: 155 countries affected by Covid-19, a truely global pandemic spread.
Today's count in Germany: more than 15,000 cases https://www.zeit.de/wissen/gesundheit/2020-03/coronavirus-deutschland-infektionen-faelle-verbreitung-epidemie-karte
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About 20,000 infected in Germany.
More than 4,000 dead in Italy!
More than 1,000 dead in Spain!
166 countries affected... Take care...
I found a new free online visualization resource on Covid-19 on Statista.com, see https://www.statista.com/page/covid-19-coronavirus
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Try the curves from Statista.com, see https://www.statista.com/page/covid-19-coronavirus
Here are interactive graphs that show that the Slope starts to slowly flattening out in Germany and Spain. At last some hope... see https://www.zeit.de/wissen/gesundheit/2020-03/coronavirus-deutschland-infektionen-faelle-verbreitung-epidemie-karte
The Covid-19 death toll is devastating: tonight more than 6,000 in Italy, more than 2,000 in Spain, more than 150 in New York City already...
The Olympic Games in Japan will be postponed to 2021! That is good news for all athletes, spectators and Japan AS a nation in terms of public health and Covid-19 spread...
Total COVID-19 tests performed by country can be seen at: https://ourworldindata.org/covid-testing
Germany's Robert-Koch-Institute (RKI) has now developed a new online-case tool for Germany like the one of Johns Hopkins University that looks nice and adequate, see https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/478220a4c454480e823b17327b2bf1d4
Russia has said it is not counting Covid-19 deaths. Only pneumonea deaths... And there is a strong rise in pneumonea deaths currently... That is a cover-up! https://www.zeit.de/politik/2020-03/russland-coronavirus-infektionen-zahlen-pandemie?utm_source=pocket-newtab
In Germany there is no cover-up of Covid-19 data but a data transmission problem from cities, and federal states to the federal agency, see https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/coronavirus-wie-belastbar-sind-die-rki-daten-a-13bd06d7-22a1-4b3d-af23-ff43e5e8abd6
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SpringerNature now is publishing results of research on Covid-19 and Sars-Cov-2 in open access And for free on URL: https://www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/campaigns/coronavirus?sap-outbound-id=59B37AC75BB318B954C848C9924967A66E9D47BD&utm_source=hybris-campaign&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=101_PBN2619_0000020211_GLS_101_aut_202003_Coronavirus_Forschung&utm_content=EN_internal_44988_20200325&mkt-key=005056A5C6311ED999AA34C0C41BCBCF
researchers have developed a tool called FluSense, it is about the size of a dictionary. It contains a cheap microphone array, a thermal sensor, a Raspberry Pi and an Intel Movidius 2 neural computing engine. The idea is to use AI at the edge to classify audio samples and identify the number of people in a room at any given time. This will help to identify flu symptoms For isolation
A pandemic spread of a virus was forcasted for about 20 years (remember Dustin Hoffman in Outbreak, a novel by Robin Cook MD)... Ebola, Marburg, SARS, MERS, all were not in full pandemic spread. SARS-CoV-2 now is... Not unexpected... And in theory the medicine is prepared... However many death persons... Look at China, Italy, Spain... One answer? Global travel, Global trade and globalization as such helped to spread... And hunting and eating wild animals such as bats and pangolins...
It depends on the nature of the environment of that country, its traditions and culture
Tonight France has already 1,331 deceased by Covid-19. But France has also said that these cases are only the deceased in hospitals... In the next days the deceased in the homes of the elderly and which died at home will be released... We must wait and see and be prapared to separate, stay at home and take care...
Covid-19 has now spread to 175 countries of the World. Todays ranking of infected persons (Johns Hopkins University): 1. China, 81,000, 2. Italy, 80,000, 3. USA, 79,000 From tomorrow on it will be America First...
The Greater Goods Center of the University of California at Berkeley has published a Guide on Social Well being during the Covid-19 pandemia and crisis, see https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/greater_good_guide_to_well_being_during_coronavirus?utm_source=Greater+Good+Science+Center&utm_campaign=f6a0979943-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_GG_Newsletter_Mar_26_2020&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5ae73e326e-f6a0979943-51216351 and https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_to_keep_the_greater_good_in_mind_during_the_coronavirus_outbreak
Some banks in Ghana have announced that they are allowing people affected by the coronavirus outbreak to defer mortgage and loan repayments for up to three months.
Putting the SARS-CoV-2-Pandemia into a historic perspecive: Fatality rates of major virus outbreaks from 1967-2020: Marburg Virus (1967) was by far the deadliest virus...
Putting the SARS-CoV-2-Pandemia in to a historic perspective 2: Infections and deaths of major virus outbraks from 1967-2020... Note that the CoV-2 data is from 31 January 2020.
Today it is more than 600,000 infected and about 28,000 deaths... Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1095192/worldwide-infections-and-deaths-of-major-virus-outbreaks-in-the-last-50-years/
Can Covid-19 be compared to the Spanish flu? I say no, because in 1918 we had no Antibiotics, No-Anti-Viral-Drugs, Much less knowledge and less technology such as respirators/ventilators... But then, some try to compare it, like this report, see https://www.zeit.de/wissen/gesundheit/2020-03/sars-cov-2-pandemic-history-spanish-flu-english/komplettansicht
Here is a piece on why Covid-19 cannot and must not be compared to the spanish flu, see https://www.wired.com/story/covid-19-is-nothing-like-the-spanish-flu/
Dear all, I just found a world class scholarly visualization on the Covid-19 spread and deaths on the globe by Oxford University, see here, URL: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus
Technical Report WCO on Covid-19: Urgent Safety alert – many fake goods around
Technical Report INTERPOL on COVID-19: Urgent Safety alert – Results of the 2...
The Diplomat has a clear view on China's political attempt to clear its name from China Virus or Wuhan virus, see https://thediplomat.com/2020/03/can-chinas-covid-19-statistics-be-trusted/ The problem is that a liar is again acting openly.
Do you trust a liar? Sadly that question must also be posed for the US knowadays... That situation must be changed in the near future...
Here I am sharing an amazing Covid-19 spreading map that can be viewed as film. It shows the spread out of Wuhan, China all over the world. It is based on mutation data. It shows that Washington has been in it early (even earlier than Italy) and that Iceland is playing an important role... https://nextstrain.org/ncov/2020-03-27 And it came to Germany through Belgium/the Netherlands, Italy/Austria and Iran all at one time...
Technical Report INTERPOL on COVID-19: Urgent warning about COVID-19 fraud sc...
Situation in India still seems under control. Please see the link below. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/india/
The situation of situation of Corona viruses in your country is good. People are committed to being urban and staying in homes. A plan by the government to control this virus, His Majesty King Abdullah leads the state’s efforts to combat this virus. Thank God, things are under control, cases are decreasing, and there are cases that have cured the virus. We wish safety and health to everyone around the world.
Interesting: China has not counted persons tested positve that are not showing symtoms... We knew something was fishy... https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/corona-covid-19-china-wuhan-statistik-1.4863551
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This makes me sick! In the UK it has been reported until now only 163,000 persons have been tested on Covid-19. About 33,000 positive... In Germany we have about 350,000 persons tested PER WEEK (still not enough). About 80,000 positive... So all metrics and numbers (JHU) we are reading must be set in relation to sample size... In the UK: 3,000 reported death yet. In Germany less than 1,000... This is no competition, mind, but it is about flattening the curve and about lifes lost! And about management and mismangement, about populistic rulers...
https://gulfnews.com/living-in-uae/health/coronavirus-everything-the-uae-is-doing-to-keep-the-country-safe-1.1584272966241
Allegedly the US government is stealing face masks from partners in Asia, e.g. masks destined and bought by France, Germany, Canada... https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article206992269/Coronavirus-Pandemie-USA-fangen-von-Berlin-bestellte-Schutzmasken-aus-China-ab.html An example of reckless Trumpism...
Technical Report EUROPOL on COVID-19: Warning about COVID-19 cybercrime & fraud schemes
The War on Masks and supply - a case of State Piracy by the USA he US approach under Trump that is accused as stealing is like that: Identifying shipments in Asia to countries like Germany, Canada, France and others, going on the airfield with cash and "buying" the goods which are under a contract already by bribery and threats... I suspect secret services are involved (why does the US know the shipments???)! And this is state piracy!
Today more than 1,400 death in the USA from Covid-19 on a single day!
Today more than 700 death in the UK from Covid-19 on a single day. And 4,300 alltogether in the UK (but only in hospitals). Since the elders in the homes of the eldery are not counted and published yet, the number is likely much higher...
The discussion in the US and in the EU is clear: Virologists and Epidemiologists and authorities today are all giving advice to use self sewn face masks in order to slow down the spread of COVID-19 (not as self protection, but as measure of slowing its spread down)...
The Airbus airlift has done it again!
After the experiences of stolen masks for the EU by the US and unknown criminals (Germany got also 6.2 Mio. masks stolen which were coming from China via Kenya) which vanished in Kenya...
Airbus the european Aircraft Builder is flying to China and transporting the masks directly to the EU in their Airbus Airlift. The Airbus 350-1000 flew on its testlflight to China and brought 4 Mio. masks to Germany and France - they will be distributed to hospitals and homes of the elderly in Germany, France, Spain and the UK... At last the EU and even its former member UK are standing together...
https://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/en/2020/03/airbus-secures-new-face-mask-supplies-to-support-europes-fight-against-covid19.html
https://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/en/2020/03/airbus-a400m-transports-masks-to-spain-in-support-of-covid19-crisis-efforts.html
The WHO is now testing four medications on Covid-19 in a global study and my little hometown Bremen is participating: 1. Remdesivir (Ebola drug) 2. Chloroquin (Malaria drug) 3. Kaletra (HIV drug which is consiting out of two substances: Ritonavir and Lopinavir) 4. Kaletra plus Beta-Interferon ... The results will be monitored closely and are pooled by the WHO. In case one of the arms prooves not promising it can and will be replaced by another drug/combination... Promising but wait and see... See URL: https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/solidarity-studie-der-who-vier-medikamente-gegen-covid-19.676.de.html?dram:article_id=473397
The University Hospital of Erlangen (Bavaria/Germany) has now got the permit to use plasma from COVID-19 positive persons to produce antibodies for COVID-19 affected persons... https://www.fau.eu/2020/04/06/news/research/universitatsklinikum-erlangen-given-go-ahead-to-produce-covid-19-immune-plasma/
We are all wondering about the data and Covid-19 spread. Many love the Johns Hopkins Universtiy site (me too :); but it is all about the metrix behind, the level of testing, the overall population. This visualization by statista.com shows the different numbers of COVID-19 tests per mio. persons and it really looks behind the mask...
We are all wondering about the data and Covid-19 spread. Many love the Johns Hopkins Universtiy site (me too :); but it is all about the metrix behind, the level of testing, the overall population. And it is also about the data sources and correctness. This new, corrected visualization by statista.com shows the different numbers of COVID-19 tests per mio. persons and it really looks behind the mask... And it has been corrected in terms of the USA... (new source: ourworldindata.org)...
The virus spread in Iraq is not so fast, yet rather the goverment has been attempting to halt its spread,some novel cases are roprted daily.
A spark of hope at easter time: the numbers of recovered former COVID-19 persons is rising...
Technical Report WHO on COVID-19: Warning about Criminals that pretend to be the WHO
Technical Report INTERPOL on COVID-19: COVID-19 Crime and Fraud Alert
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340634936_COVID-19-Pandemie_in_Gabler_Wirtschaftslexikon_Online_42020
Why social distancing is the key measure, see
https://de.statista.com/infografik/21186/was-social-distancing-beim-coronavirus-bewirkt/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340756103_WCO_on_COVID-19_The_WCO_Private_Sector_Consultative_Group_outlines_solutions_to_humanitarian_and_business_needs
In Germany the number of recovered persons is rising continiously and more than halfe are recovered and we are through the first wave... The lockdown is loosinging and 4 out of 16 states have issued an obligation to wear face masks. but the situation is fragile. The reproduction number as fallen below 1 (to 0.7, 0.8 and yesterday 0.9) but it must stay there... In order to receive herd immunity in 18 months we would require 72,000 new infections per day!
Thankfully of My God , this virus was controlled in our country, our country seemed to recover, and some productive sectors are gradually returning to work, and the number of infected cases has become almost non-existent.
Technical Report UN on COVID-19: Resolution on Global solidarity of the Unite...
Technical Report INTERPOL on COVID-19: International mask fraud discovered an...
Technical Report INTERPOL on COVID-19: Crime landscape changes – global risk assessment
Situation in Germany as of today, see ZEIT.de (go on the picture to see the whole picture)
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