A website dedicated to everything new about Corona virus news

Thursday, March 19, 2020

(COVID-19) Live Updates: As Virus Spreads Swiftly Worldwide, China Reports Zero New Infections

China reports zero local infections, a major turning point.

The White home is seeking $500 billion in direct payments to taxpayers and President Trump invoked a wartime law to press companies to form medical supplies. Britain, bracing for a surge, puts 20,000 troops on standby.

RIGHT NOWThe European Union’s chief Brexit trade negotiator, Michel Barnier, said he had tested positive for the virus.
Here’s what you would like to know:
As the virus spreads, the human toll grows.
China reports zero local infections, a serious turning point.
Many hospitalized within the U.S. are younger adults.
First details of Trump’s economic package includes $500 billion for taxpayers.
Testing in ny gathers speed as health officials rush to stem the spread in Hasidic communities.
Queen Elizabeth heads to country home as Britain’s restrictions expand.
What does ‘social distancing’ actually mean?
As the virus spreads, the human toll grows.
China reported its first day with no new locally transmitted coronavirus infections, three months after the primary case was detected. But the march of the affliction gathered pace while nations throughout the planet braced for a surge of infections and, ultimately, deaths.

For the Fusco family in Freehold, N.J., the risks of the virus and its pernicious exploitation of human connection were laid bare when Grace Fusco, 73, died Wednesday night, hours after her son and five days after her daughter. Four other relations are hospitalized, three of them in critical condition, from an infection traced to a routine family gathering.

No one is safe.

Two members of Congress tested positive and were in isolation on Thursday. While older people remain at gravest risk worldwide, a C.D.C. report found that 38 percent of these who required hospitalization within the U.S. were aged 20 to 54.

Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, warned that as testing becomes more widespread, people would see the numbers soar.

President Trump signed a relief package to supply leave , unemployment benefits and free coronavirus testing, and lawmakers were drafting a good more sweeping $1 trillion economic stabilization package.

But whilst the federal invoked wartime powers to hurry the assembly of essential medical equipment, like surgical masks, protective body suits, testing kits and, especially, ventilators remained briefly supply.

World leaders escalated pleas to the sole ones who can ultimately help buy time: everyone.

“It’s right down to each and each one among us,” Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany said during a televised address. “We aren't doomed to helplessly watch the spread of the virus. we've a way to fight it: we must practice social distancing.”

Failure to try to to so could end in even more stringent lockdowns that Germany has thus far avoided, she said. “We are a democracy. We don’t live by force, but by shared knowledge and cooperation.”

In California, quite nine million people are told to not leave their homes. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of latest York resisted taking such a drastic step, whilst he ordered businesses to compel employees to figure from home.

In Spain, violations of isolation orders are enforced with fines. Russia is using facial-recognition technology to trace down and fine people that violate mandatory quarantines. Beaches in Barcelona are closed, but many Americans were heading to sandy shores for respite .

Even as nations wrestled with a public health emergency, the depression grew darker, deepening the anxiety felt by people increasingly stop from their support networks.

But, as Ms. Merkel said, whilst a society in isolation, “we will show that we are there for each other .”

For the primary time since the coronavirus crisis began, China on Thursday reported no new local infections for the previous day, a milestone in its costly battle with the outbreak that has since spread round the world.

Officials said 34 new coronavirus cases had been confirmed, all of them involving people that had come to China from elsewhere.

In signaling that an end to China’s epidemic could be in view , the announcement could pave the way for officials to specialise in reviving the country’s economy, which nearly ground to a halt after the govt imposed travel restrictions and quarantine measures. In recent days, economic life has been resuming in fits and starts.

But China isn't out of danger yet. Experts have said that it'll got to see a minimum of 14 consecutive days without new infections for the outbreak to be considered truly over. It remains to be seen whether the virus will re-emerge once lifestyle restarts and travel restrictions are lifted round the country.

“It’s very clear that the actions taken in China have almost delivered to an end their first wave of infections,” said Ben Cowling, a professor and head of the division of epidemiology and biostatistics at Hong Kong University’s School of Public Health. “The question is what is going to happen if there’s a second wave, because the type of measures that China has implemented aren't necessarily sustainable within the future .”

To contain the outbreak, the authorities shut schools and workplaces and imposed travel and quarantine restrictions on broad swaths of the population and lots of visitors from abroad. Since January, quite 50 million people within the central province of Hubei, including its capital, Wuhan, where the outbreak began, are subjected to a strict lockdown.

American adults of all ages — not just those in their 70s, 80s and 90s — are being seriously sickened by the coronavirus, consistent with a report on nearly 2,500 cases within the us .

The report, issued Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found that — as in other countries — the oldest patients were at greatest risk of becoming seriously ill or dying. But of the 508 coronavirus patients known to possess been hospitalized within the us , 38 percent were between 20 and 54. And nearly half the 121 sickest patients studied — those admitted to medical care units — were adults under 65.


“I think everyone should be listening to the present ,” said Stephen S. Morse, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University . “It’s not just getting to be the elderly.”

Dr. Deborah Birx, coordinator of the Trump administration’s coronavirus task force, appealed on Wednesday for younger people to prevent socializing in groups and to require care to guard themselves et al. .

“You have the potential then to spread it to someone who does have a condition that none folks knew about, and cause them to possess a disastrous outcome,” Dr. Birx said.

In the C.D.C. report, 20 percent of the hospitalized patients and 12 percent of the medical care patients were between the ages of 20 and 44, basically spanning the millennial generation.

0 comments:

Post a Comment