Corona Virus (COVID-19)( SARS-CoV-2) from China: Its going to be bad.

[The Annoyed Man]

Not spreading to the civilized world as of yet...

Guess again.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/c ... story.html

In the wee hours of a rainy Monday, more than a dozen buses sat on the tarmac at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport. Inside, 328 weary Americans wearing surgical masks and gloves waited anxiously to fly home after weeks in quarantine aboard the Diamond Princess, the luxury liner where the novel coronavirus had ­exploded into a shipwide epidemic.

But as the buses idled, U.S. officials wrestled with troubling news. New test results showed that 14 passengers were infected with the virus. The U.S. State Department had promised that no one with the infection would be allowed to board the planes.

Passengers were not informed that infected people were on board.

[Beiruty]

An Iranian visitor to Lebanon was confirmed to have the COVID-19 and flew from Iran to Lebanon. Lebanon is on the verge of financial collapse. It is certain with weak health care system, the whole population is at risk.
People are going into self quarantining

[DocV]

Meanwhile,

CDC estimates that so far this season there have been at least 29 million flu illnesses, 280,000 hospitalizations and 16,000 deaths from flu.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/#S2

[philip964]

https://apple.news/Au41H_AF5RHquFb-UEaYGCg

11 of 13 American cruise ship passengers tested positive for Coronavirus in Omaha.

[philip964]

https://news.yahoo.com/10-italian-towns ... 35548.html

10 Italian towns on lock down. Man who had been to China but had tested negative for the virus went to a bar. Now many people at the bar are testing positive.

[Beiruty]

https://news.yahoo.com/10-italian-towns ... 35548.html

10 Italian towns on lock down. Man who had been to China but had tested negative for the virus went to a bar. Now many people at the bar are testing positive.

Crazy. This is why the isolation period should more than the virus incubation period.

[philip964]

https://news.yahoo.com/americans-strand ... 30723.html

Ordeal of Westerdam passengers continues as plane full of American and Canadian cruise ship passengers is stopped at the Pakistan airport after they were released from Cambodia where their ship was allowed to dock.

https://news.yahoo.com/south-korea-acce ... 20601.html

Korea moving to trying to contain the spread. Has most cases outside China.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... -who-warns

Iran warned by WHO window of containment narrowing after 4 deaths.

[philip964]

https://news.yahoo.com/more-coronavirus ... 42999.html

Iran suspends religious gatherings in Qom.

https://news.yahoo.com/iran-reports-ano ... 08124.html

6 dead in Iran.

People are forwarding me tweets of children in Iran hospitals struggling to breathe. Could all be fake.

How long before we are blamed?

https://news.trust.org/item/20200222160134-tyyo5

Holy sites in Israel visited by Infected South Korean.

[Paladin]

Prayers sent that this will get under control soon.

[philip964]

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world- ... t-21553192

Doomsday cult linked to super spreading in South Korea and Holy Land.

Oh great. Just what we need.

[Beiruty]

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world- ... t-21553192

Doomsday cult linked to super spreading in South Korea and Holy Land.

Oh great. Just what we need.

Could be a form of terrorism

[philip964]

https://apnews.com/bda63e372d4d0e5f393744e2cff6fdf1

Italy cancels Venice Carnivale.

Italy suddenly has 132 cases.

Have not found patient zero.

New cases in China have leveled off.

People recovered is at 23,000

[Outnumbered]

Here is a Google doc that someone put together with info on cases in different countries. There are multiple charts/ graphs with up-to-date counts.

[Beiruty]

It seems it would go out of hand, Once it hits India and Africa. It would be very serious for world economy.