With the World Health Organization officially declaring COVID-19 a pandemic, countries around the world are taking drastic new measures in hopes of slowing the spread. Crystal Goomansingh reports.
The Canadian government ramps up its response to COVID-19. David Akin looks at how the $1 billion package will be spent, and whether Canada plans to follow other governments by implementing travel bans and cancelling large public gatherings.
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update 32 with pulmonologist & critical care specialist Roger Seheult, MD of https://www.MedCram.com
South Korea has tested over 140,000 people for COVID-19 and their data may give the best insight into a more accurate fatality rate, and how quickly the new coronavirus can spread. Dr. Seheult illustrates how this coronavirus actually replicates within human cells – which is key to understanding how potential treatments and supplements such as zinc may aid in prevention.
Pope Francis skipped a planned Mass on Thursday due to illness. The Vatican did not elaborate, saying only that he had a “slight indisposition”.
The pontiff was seen coughing and blowing his nose during the Ash Wednesday Mass.
This comes as cases of coronavirus surge in Northern Italy, with over 400 people testing positive for the virus.
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Unprecedented measures are being enforced right across Italy to try to limit the spread of Coronavirus. As the number of cases and deaths rise sharply Italy faces growing isolation with thousands of flights cancelled and stringent controls on its borders with Austria and Slovenia. Public gatherings including sports events are banned, and schools and universities are closed. Italians are being advised to stay at home. In the UK, a 6th person has died and the number of cases has risen to 382.
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The coronavirus outbreak continues to grow, with new virus cases in South Korea, Italy, China, and elsewhere. Get the latest breaking virus news in our LIVE CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE.
The virus, also called the Novel Coronavirus and SARS-CoV-2, began infecting people in Wuhan, China in December. (The disease from the virus is called COVID-19.) There are currently 79,774 confirmed cases of infection worldwide. The coronavirus outbreak is now spreading beyond China, with dozens of new cases in South Korea, Italy, Japan, and other countries. In this interactive live stream, host Steve Lookner brings you the latest breaking news updates on the coronavirus outbreak, and he’ll also read your comments and questions on the air!
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British Columbia has announced the first COVID-19-related death in the country.
Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said the man is one of two people at a North Vancouver care home who was diagnosed with the virus last week.
Henry said the man passed away Sunday night.
“Our heartfelt condolences go out to his family and loved ones and also of course to the staff that provided him care, and to his home at the Lynn Valley Care Centre,” Henry said.
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update 34 with pulmonologist & critical care specialist Roger Seheult, MD of https://www.MedCram.com
All of Italy is now in a lockdown state. The United States is experiencing a growing number of new daily cases of COVID-19 and testing remains limited in many parts of the country. Dr. Seheult illustrates compelling articles about the possible efficacy of chloroquine in the treatment of coronavirus infections and its role in aiding cellular zinc absorption.
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Mike Armstrong reports on the more than 100 Canadians shifting from one 14-day quarantine to another, due to the novel coronavirus, after arriving in Cornwall, Ont., from the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in Japan.
Plus, Dawna Friesen looks at how COVID-19 is spreading in Iran, South Korea and Italy.
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The number of cases of coronavirus in the UK has jumped to 87, the largest increase in a single day in the outbreak so far. (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe)
England’s Chief Medical Officer has warned that we are on the verge of moving from trying to contain the virus by tracking all known cases, to the ‘delay’ phase of the official response.
That’s to stop the number of cases rising too quickly. Meanwhile Italy – the worst affected country in Europe – is to close all schools and universities until the middle of the month.
South Korea has raised its disease alert to the highest level after a surge in coronavirus infections and two more deaths, while Chinese state media warned the outbreak had yet to reach a turning point despite some signs of easing.
South Korea’s president said on Sunday he was putting the country on “red alert” due to the rapid rise in new cases, which are largely being traced back to church services. Health officials reported 169 new infections, bringing the total to 602, having doubled from Friday to Saturday.
The escalation in the alert level allows the government to send extra resources to Daegu city and Cheongdo county, which were designated “special care zones” on Friday.
South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency said it also enables the government to forcibly prevent public activities and order the temporary closure of schools, though the government gave no immediate details on what steps could be taken.
Al Jazeera’s Rob McBride reports from Cheongdo county.
The second largest outbreak is in South Korea with cases topping 5,000 as checks at foreign airports will implement multiple screenings from countries with travel restrictions.
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It’s generally believed that with the coronavirus the worst is yet to come.
But some predictions by global experts… say the virus will likely end up infecting most people in the world.
In that case it could become a seasonal illness like the flu.
Our Choi Jeong-yoon reports. Public health experts have been trying to gauge how bad the coronavirus outbreak will get, and whether it will become a full-blown pandemic, by calculating the pathogen’s reproduction rate.
And according to a recent report by U.S.-based investment bank JP Morgan Chase,… South Korea’s coronavirus epidemic has not yet reached its peak.
Taking the speed of secondary infections in China into account ,… the bank predicted that the epidemic could reach its climax in Korea around March 20th and said there could be as many as ten thousand confirmed cases.
The bank supposed three percent of the 2-point-4 million people living in Daegu had been exposed to the virus.
Daegu is where more than 80 percent of the total confirmed cases have occurred in Korea.
However, the South Korean health authorities said it’s too early to make such assumptions.
Vice health minister Kim Gang-lip said at a briefing on Wednesday that more thorough statistical analysis needs to be done on the spread of the virus.
Meanwhile, some say the virus will ultimately become uncontainable.
In an article by the Atlantic,…Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch said the coronavirus will be a global pandemic,… with 40 to 70 percent of the world’s population likely to be infected this year.
But he clarified that by saying many of those people won’t have severe illnesses or even show symptoms at all, which is already reportedly the case for many people who have tested positive for the coronavirus.
In that way, it could have similarities with influenza, which is often life-threatening to elderly people or those with chronic health conditions, but causes no symptoms at all in around 14 percent of cases.
This is leading to an emerging consensus that the outbreak will eventually morph into a new seasonal disease, which The Atlantic says could one day turn the “cold and flu season” into the “cold and flu and COVID-19 season.”
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Italy is experiencing a coronavirus outbreak, and confirmed cases in South Korea continue to rise. Dr. Seheult discusses these locations and a new article from the peer-reviewed journal JAMA, on the asymptomatic spread of SARS-CoV2 / COVID-19.
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South Korean officials are racing to contain the spread, and said most cases were linked to a single church and hospital nearby.
The number of novel coronavirus cases has soared to over 150, the most outside Asia, as a dozen Northern Italian towns are on lockdown with the famed Carnival festival canceled.
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It’s the same special facility which has housed evacuees from the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the outbreak first began.
But world health officials are growing alarmed by the new cases in South Korea, Italy and Iran.
We speak to Dr Margaret Harris who is on the World Health Organisation’s coronavirus team, and China state TV correspondent Zhou Jiaxin.
A sharp jump in coronavirus cases in Italy has prompted authorities to cancel the final days of Carnival in Venice. Several towns in northern Italy have also been put on lockdown, after 2 people are reported to have died from the disease.
South Korea is also on high alert following a sharp jump in coronavirus cases there, with the total number reaching more than 600. The virus has now spread from China to more than 25 countries.
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Iran state media says 50 people have now died from the coronavirus as the infection spreads across the Middle East. Kuwait, Bahrain and Afghanistan have all reported their first cases.
Meanwhile, Kuwait and Bahrain reported their first cases of the virus, while Turkey, Pakistan and Armenia closed their borders with Iran, as Tehran reported more coronavirus infections and deaths. Neighbouring Afghanistan also introduced travel restrictions.
Fears of a potential coronavirus pandemic grew on Monday after sharp rises in new COVID-19 cases were reported in Iran, Italy and South Korea. Infectious disease expert Dr. Peter Daszak says he wouldn’t be surprised if the World Health Organization declared the disease a pandemic in the next two weeks.
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The South Korean government is urgently sending medical support to its south, where much of those infected can be traced back to a church service.
Al Jazeera’s Rob McBride reports from Daegu, which has been declared a “special care zone”.
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Barely more than a week ago, South Korea’s coronavirus outbreak appeared to be contained as the number of confirmed infections stabilized at 30. Sensing a turning tide, many Seoul residents took off their surgical masks and resumed riding the subways and shopping at malls.
Then, on Feb. 17, a 31st case surfaced at a health clinic in Daegu, a city about 150 miles south of the capital where the vast majority of known infections were located. An unidentified 61-year-old woman, who lived there and occasionally commuted to Seoul, tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
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For any copyright, please send me a message. The window of opportunity to contain a mass global outbreak of the killer coronavirus is “narrowing”, the head of the World Health Organisation has warned. Worried Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has expressed fears of a pattern of infection as countries across the world see hundreds of cases of the virus – with no clear link to source country China. His comments come as officials in Iran and Italy close schools and offices and cancel events amid a spread of the deadly bug. Iran today reported two more deaths, bringing the total to four, and said the fatalities were from among 13 new confirmed cases of the virus. Concerns over the spread of the virus prompted Iran to close all schools and Shiite seminaries in Qom, about 130 kilometres (80 miles) south of Tehran. Officials fear the virus may have spread to “all Iran’s cities”, the BBC reports. While Italian authorities said the number of people infected with the new coronavirus from China has more than quadrupled due to an emerging cluster of cases in the country’s north. Many of the new cases represented the first infections in Italy acquired through secondary contagion and brought the country’s total to 17. Dr Tedros said the pattern of infection outside of China was worrying, and the new cases in Iran were “very concerning”. He said: “We are concerned about the number of cases with no clear epidemiological link, such as travel history to or contact with a confirmed case.” But he insisted there was still a “fighting chance” of stopping the spread of the virus and called on all nations to do more to fight outbreaks. The first to fall ill in northern Italy met with someone who had returned from China on January 21 without presenting any symptoms of the new virus, called Covid-19, health authorities said. The 38-year-old Italian man is in hospital in the northern town of Codogno in a critical condition. The man’s wife and a friend of his also tested positive for the virus. Three patients at the hospital where he went with flu-like symptoms a few days ago also have infections. Five nurses and doctors contracted the virus as well. Italian health minister Roberto Speranza said Italy is now seeing the same sort of “cluster” of cases that Germany and France have seen. The mayor of Codogno has issued a decree ordering the closure of all restaurants, coffee bars, schools and public gathering spots such as discos and gyms. The Health Ministry advised area residents to stay home as a precaution. Local officials in another town, Casalpusterlengo, ordered local schools closed until Tuesday. A third town, Castiglione d’Adda, said its libraries, public offices, gyms and waste depots would be closed as a health
