Reuters Wrote:EasyMile said the suspension followed an incident in which a passenger fell from a seat in Columbus, Ohio last week while the shuttle was driving 7 miles per hour (11 kph) “and made an emergency stop as it is programmed to do for safety."

BBC Wrote:In Brazil, local media reported on Tuesday that an initial test on a 61-year-old man who had recently been to northern Italy had come out positive.
They said the man from São Paulo would be tested again for final confirmation.
The individual, whose name was not given, arrived back in Brazil at the height of the carnival festivities, when millions of people travel around the country. Officials fear the timing of his return makes it more likely the coronavirus could have spread.

BBC Wrote:In Iran, fewer than 100 people have officially been infected but it's assumed the numbers are far higher. The infection of the country's deputy health minister has deepened fears that the virus has already spread widely.

BBC Wrote:Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged all nations to "tell the truth about the coronavirus", saying that Washington was concerned that Iran may have concealed "vital details" about its outbreak.

AP Wrote:Another person in the U.S. is infected — someone in California who doesn’t appear to have the usual risk factors of having traveled abroad or being exposed to another patient.

AP Wrote:THE FACTS: They’re both wrong to say the agencies have seen their money cut. Bloomberg is repeating the false allegation in a new ad that states the U.S. is unprepared for the virus because of “reckless cuts” to the CDC. Trump’s budgets have proposed cuts to public health, only to be overruled by Congress, where there’s strong bipartisan support for agencies such as the CDC and NIH. Instead, financing has increased.
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The broader point about there being “nobody here” to coordinate the response sells short what’s in place to handle an outbreak.

The public health system has a playbook to follow for pandemic preparation — regardless of who’s president or whether specific instructions are coming from the White House. Those plans were put into place in anticipation of another flu pandemic, but are designed to work for any respiratory-borne disease.

worldometers.info Wrote:WHO raises Global Risk from Coronavirus to the highest level of alert
“We have now increased our assessment of the risk of spread and the risk of impact of COVID-19 to very high at global level,” World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters.

“If we don’t take action... that may be a future that we have to experience,” he said, adding that “a lot of the future of this epidemic is in the hands of ourselves.”

worldometers.info Wrote:"A new stage of the epidemic has been reached. We’ve now moved to stage 2: which means the virus circulates in our territory and we have to slow down its spread." said French Health Minister Olivier Véran.

BBC Wrote:Volunteers in China say they're struggling to keep up with the number of animals being abandoned as the country battles the virus outbreak.

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AP Wrote:Judge William Fletcher, writing the majority, sided with the American Civil Liberties Union and other advocacy groups who argued the policy violates international treaty obligations against sending people back to a country where they are likely to be persecuted or tortured on the grounds of race, religion, ethnicity, political beliefs or membership in a particular social group.

Reuters Wrote:A growing number of discharged coronavirus patients in China and elsewhere are testing positive after recovering, sometimes weeks after being allowed to leave the hospital, which could make the epidemic harder to eradicate.
On Wednesday, the Osaka prefectural government in Japan said a woman working as a tour-bus guide had tested positive for the coronavirus for a second time. This followed reports in China that discharged patients throughout the country were testing positive after their release from the hospital.
Experts say there are several ways discharged patients could fall ill with the virus again. Convalescing patients might not build up enough antibodies to develop immunity to SARS-CoV-2, and are being infected again. The virus also could be “biphasic”, meaning it lies dormant before creating new symptoms.
But some of the first cases of “reinfection” in China have been attributed to testing discrepancies.
On Feb. 21, a discharged patient in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu was readmitted 10 days after being discharged when a follow-up test came back positive.

You CAN CONTRACT Covid-19 a Second Time!!

Reuters Wrote:Song Tie, vice director of the local disease control center in southern China’s Guangdong province, told a media briefing on Wednesday that as many as 14% of discharged patients in the province have tested positive again and had returned to hospitals for observation.

AP Wrote:The governor of Washington declared a state of emergency Saturday after a man died there of COVID-19, the first such reported death in the United States. More than 50 people in a nursing facility are sick and being tested for the virus.

AP Wrote:Trump appeared at a hastily called news conference in the White House briefing room with Vice President Mike Pence and top public health officials to announce that the U.S. was banning travel to Iran and urging Americans not to travel to regions of Italy and South Korea where the virus has been prevalent.
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Trump said he was considering additional restrictions, including closing the U.S. border with Mexico in response to the virus’ spread, but later added: “This is not a border that seems to be much of a problem right now.”
“We’re thinking about all borders,” he said.

AP Wrote:Authorities reported that Italy’s total confirmed cases grew to 1,128, a 27% increase from 24 hours earlier. The vast majority are in three northern regions, all economically productive and among the most visited in the country : Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia Romagna.

Eight more people infected with the coronavirus died since Friday night, all of them elderly and all in the same three regions, according to civil protection authorities.

Schengen Visa Wrote:A task force of the federal government of Germany decided last Friday to impose stricter controls at its border checks, including demanding from travellers coming from countries with a coronavirus outbreak – Italy, South Korea, Japan and Iran – to disclose their health status upon arrival.
The government also intensified checks on railways and has guided the federal police to boost border patrols, as another measure in this regard, after the number of people containing the coronavirus reached 90.
As a result of the new measures, the ITB tourism trade fair which was set to bring over 160,000 visitors to Berlin the following week has been cancelled.
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With the number of cases in Germany keeps increasing, in the German municipality of Heinsberg, near the Dutch border already counts 35 persons containing the disease. The authorities of the district have rejected the idea of a blanket quarantine, however.

CNN Wrote:A pet dog has been placed in quarantine in Hong Kong after it tested a "weak positive" for the novel coronavirus, authorities said.
The dog was handed over to the Hong Kong Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) after its owner was infected with the coronavirus, the department said in a statement.
"We're working with authorities in Hong Kong and scientists in Hong Kong who are testing ... the dog ... to understand these results and to understand where or if the dog was actually infected or if the dog picked this up from a contaminated surface, for example," Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, technical lead of the World Health Organization's Health Emergencies Program, said during a press briefing Friday.

AP Wrote:Since 2004, immigration officials have targeted for quick deportation undocumented immigrants who are picked up within 100 miles of the U.S. border and within 14 days of entering the country. The Trump administration is seeking to expand that authority so that people detained anywhere in the U.S. and up to two years after they got here could be quickly deported.

BBC Wrote:Britain is significantly stepping up its military support in West Africa to help combat the world's fastest growing Islamist-led insurgency.

BBC Wrote:Germany's harvest of ice wine - a dessert wine produced from grapes that have frozen while still on the vine - has failed for the first time because the winter has been too warm.

BBC Wrote:Thousands of Muslims from China's Uighur minority group are working under coercive conditions at factories that supply some of the world's biggest brands, a new report says.
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute said this was the next phase in China's re-education of Uighurs.
China has already detained about a million Uighurs at internment camps, punishing and indoctrinating them.
Officials say the camps are aimed at countering extremism.

Washington Times Wrote:It was the second time in two years that U.S. military aircraft were the target of lasers fired by the Chinese military. In early 2018, U.S. C-130 aircraft flying near the Horn of Africa were involved in multiple lazing incidents involving a high-power laser fired from inside the PLA’s military base at Djibouti, injuring the eyes of two U.S. military air crew members. A diplomatic protest was also lodged with the Chinese over that incident.

Fox News Wrote:Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili told reporters certain inmates were allowed out of prison after testing negative for COVID-19 and posting bail. “Security prisoners,” sentenced to more than five years, would not be let out.

BBC Wrote:Turkish officials have said a man was fatally wounded when Greek security forces opened fire as migrants gathered at the border on Wednesday.

BBC Wrote:The women had also appealed to President Barack Obama for their sentences to be commuted before he left office, but the requests were denied.

 

Teletica Wrote:El Ministerio de Salud de Costa Rica estudia el primer caso sospechoso de coronavirus. La paciente es una mujer costarricense de 52 años, vecina del cantón de Pococí.
Aparentemente la mujer estuvo en Italia y Túnez y llegó al país el día 29 de febrero; pero al momento de su ingreso no presentaba síntomas que coincidieran con la definición de caso.
Posteriormente, la mujer empezó a presentar síntomas y al someterla a un examen preliminar, dio resultado negativo por otros tipos de virus respiratorios.

El Mundo CR Wrote:La mujer de 47 años de Heredia está aislada con su madre en su casa de habitación...

Two New Yorkers were isolated in Costa Rica and are waiting for test results, the American Embassy has been notified. The husband had been in touch with a suspected case in New York City, his wife only started showing symptoms after arriving in Costa Rica.

Thailand Medical News Wrote:Hanyang Guobo Fangcang Hospital in Wuhan, China has reported on that a 36-year-old man died of Covid-19 disease that is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus just days after being declared recovered from the disease and discharged from a hospital, raising fresh questions about the risk of recurrence, the criteria used by hospitals to define recovery and the effects of residual viral loads in the human body. He is one of the many cases of such occurrences all over in China over the last two weeks. On Feb. 27, another patient died after being reported recovered in Shanxi province and similar documented occurrences were reported in Zhejiang, Sichuan and Guangdong besides Hubei.

Thailand Medical News Wrote:As more new coronavirus research is emerging, which Thailand Medical News is dedicated to help disseminate so as to help the global medical community despite attempts to being stopped by a certain American owned social media platform, it is now gradually unfolding that the new SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus is a unique virus that mankind has yet to encounter, and is far more in a league on its own when compared to all other known viruses. Over the next few days, we will be releasing more research studies that will be surprising and even confusing due the anomalies that are being uncovered.

Latest Research Published by Chinese Scientists Say Coronavirus Might Render Certain Male Patients Infertile

Thailand Medical News Wrote:According to the new researched published in medrxiv, an open source online medical journal, the coronavirus typically attacks the ACE2 (Angiotensin Converting Enzyme 2)) receptors in human tissues.
 
The team of urology researchers  that comprised of Dr Jianqing Wang, Dr Caibin Fan, Dr Kai Li, Dr Yanhong Ding and Dr Wei Lu focused primarily on renal and testicular tissues as these were also ‘rich’  with ACE2 receptors especially the renal tubular cells, Leydig cells and cells in seminiferous ducts in the testis.
The study results showed that the new coronavirus expressed potent pathogenicity to both renal and testicular tissues with resultant lesions.
The damaged testicular tissues could lead to infertility in most of the male patients.

Nation Thailand Wrote:Dr Kriangsak Atipornvanich and Assoc Prof Dr Suebsai Kongsangdao said that the cure took 48 hours before the coronavirus was removed from secretions in the respiratory system.
“This is not a cure,” Dr Kriangska said. One of the patients received the same treatment but showed allergic reactions. However, the doctors said the result was satisfactory.
The cocktail of drugs includes Oseltamivir that is usually prescribed for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome together with Lopinavir and Ritonavir, which is administered for HIV cases.
Lopinavir and Ritonavir have been used internationally to fight the novel coronavirus.

Thailand Medical News Wrote:A Singapore Coronavirus research indicates that patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes the Covid-19 disease, extensively contaminate their bedrooms and bathrooms, reflecting the need for frequent disinfecting and cleaning of such areas.
The Singapore research just published yesterday in JAMA (Journal Of The American Medical Association) said that the virus was killed by twice-a-day cleaning of surfaces and daily cleaning of floors with a commonly used disinfectant, which suggests that current decontamination measures are sufficient as long as people adhere to them.

AP Wrote:Seoul expressed “extreme regret” Friday over Japan’s ordering 14-day quarantines on all visitors from South Korea due to a surge in viral infections and warned of retaliation if Tokyo doesn’t withdraw the restrictions.
The response came a day after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced the quarantine, which also applies to visitors from China.