Scary stats…there is no stopping it we just have to sit it out and hope for a vaccine soon.
OMG 242 new deaths within the last 24 hours ? I am starting to think it may be time to hoard food and hide out. I am most worried about those cases which have slipped between the cracks and they are further spreading this virus.
If there are 60k + cases why are only 6k recovered? It sounds like you can be sick for several weeks.
Thing is its a flu like virus and lots of people die of flu each year.
The ones that mainly die are the elderly ( that’s us ) and the vulnerable .
The rest recover .
Eighteen months has been quoted .
.Main symptoms
Sore throat
Fever
Cough
Shortness of breath due to inflamed lungs
Worse on the whole than flu if you’re in the vulnerable category ?
Hope you’re free of it Muddy .
What is the new diagnosis method?
The province now includes “clinically diagnosed cases” in the number of confirmed cases.
This means it includes those showing symptoms, and having a CT scan showing an infected lung, rather than relying only on the standard nucleic acid tests.
Nucleic acid test?
Nucleic acids are the biopolymers, or small biomolecules, essential to all known forms of life. The term nucleic acid is the overall name for DNA and RNA.
A nucleic acid test (NAT) is a technique used to detect a particular nucleic acid sequence and thus usually to detect and identify a particular species or subspecies of organism, often a virus or bacteria that acts as a pathogen in blood, tissue, urine, etc.
Now I know … :shock:
Latest stats:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Coronavirus Cases: 65,246
Deaths: 1,489
Recovered: 6,99
China has +4,854 cases and +121 deaths
Hi
The virus is now having a significant economic effect.
Hyundai have shut down car production. JCB are now on short time.
All down to supply problems.
Wuhan is a major electronics hub and it’s factories are shut down,
Working flat out ? https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/14/nearly-800-tested-london-tourist-coronavirus-took-uber-ae-12237839/
One of the people diagnosed with coronavirus in the UK attended a conference near parliament last week along with about 250 other delegates - including two Labour MPs.
The patient, who has not been named, attended the UK Bus Summit at Westminster’s QEII Centre in central London on 6 February.
The event was described as the “premier bus event covering all parts of the UK”.
Speakers and attendees included “key decision makers in government from around the UK” as well as bus and coach industry representatives.
While most of the attendees may have been at low risk, a few might have been in direct contact with the “patient” … :shock:
From our local news broadcasts last night, it seems Birmingham’s Chinese restaurants and take-aways are in dire straits because people are so scared of this virus.
Mainland China now has 63,851 confirmed cases of the virus, with 5,000 new cases being reported in a single day.
Passenger from San Francisco to Heathrow taken ill ,are the US authorities not testing before people are allowed to board?
Is that a link, Zuleiker? If so, I can’t get it to open.
Will you try please?
It may be this one Mups…
Ah, thanks Mags. 
As long as people keep travelling so much, it is inevitable it will spread from country to country.
Haven’t heard about the quarantined cruise ship for a little while. Wonder what’s happening there now. .
I did and it had gone down Mups ,temporarily I see .
Thanks Mags .
Well done Brummies! Containing coronowotsit in a spring roll!