Covid-19 News & Updates

[Big Boy]

And one of her assistants. Even better is when you read where she has been in the last few days, including a party at Downing Street. UK could be governed by a parliament in isolation for 2 weeks.

[PeteC]

Bloomberg Worldwide Report (March 11)

https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/18764 ... rus-update

[HHTel]

WHO has now declared covid-19 a PANDEMIC!

https://www.pscp.tv/w/1djxXQkqApVKZ

[HHTel]

As you know, I was quite upbeat about this virus when it first appeared in China. My mind was changed some time ago. This was one time that I didn't want proving wrong. But I was wrong big time. Excerpts from Worldometers:

ITALY SHUTS DOWN

Italy closes all commercial activities, offices, cafes, shops

Only transportation, pharmacies, groceries will remain open

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases:

"Things will get worse." How much worse it will get depends on 2 things, he said:

1. containing the influx of infected people coming from other countries
2. containing local outbreaks within the U.S.

When pressed by lawmakers for an estimate of eventual fatalities in the U.S., Fauci said it will be “totally dependent upon how we respond to it.”

“I can’t give you a number,” he said. “I can’t give you a realistic number until we put into the factor of how we respond. If we’re complacent and don’t do really aggressive containment and mitigation, the number could go way up and be involved in many, many millions.”

Trump will address the nation at 9:00 PM ET. Says "I am fully prepared to use the full power of the Federal Government to deal with our current challenge of the CoronaVirus!" [source]

Blocking travel to Europe is "under discussion" said Acting Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli

UK: Boris Johnson calls emergency meeting to rule on closing schools and telling everyone to work from home
73 new cases in the UK: biggest daily rise NHS to ramp up testing capacity from 1,500 to 8,000 tests per day
2 new deaths in the UK

Germany: Merkel warns that up to 70% of Germany's population could contract the coronavirus, which would amount to 58 million people (population of 83.7 million people) [Germany Population]
343 new cases and 1 new death in Germany

Hungary declares State of Emergency:
- closes all Universities
- bans indoor events for more than 100 people
- bans outdoor events for more than 500 people
- stops flights, trains and buses from Slovenia and Austria
- tightens control of the border with Croatia
- requires quarantine for Hungarian citizens returning from Italy, China, South Korea and Iran

9 new cases in Poland, including 3 persons in Cieszyn, 1 of which had potential contacts with schoolchildren (for which a decision was made to close all schools in town), a young man from the province Masovian (Warsaw), and a young woman from Łańcut All schools, as well as museums and cinemas, will close starting on Monday to curtail the spread of the coronavirus, Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said

6 new cases in Thailand

Thailand now has 59 cases, 1 death, 34 recovered, 24 active cases and 1 critical.

And the bad news continues..........

[Big Boy]

I've been watching Sky News - amongst other things, the Donald has cancelled all air travel between USA and Europe (excluding UK) for 1 month.

https://news.sky.com/

[HHTel]

And being Trump, he puts the blame on others. The cases in the US are a direct result of the EU not taking the steps he took at the outset. Because of the EU's failure, the US has clusters that came from Europe.

No surprises there.

[hhinner]

Too late anyway. The virus is in North America now and the US doesn't have enough test kits to really know how many people have it. Wonder if Canada, with its "socialised" health system will fare better. It better close its border, maybe.

[hhinner]

Is this what Chinese history books will claim? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... n-in-china

[PeteC]

Worldwide Update (March 12)

https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/18773 ... ak-is-over

[oakdale160]

All major sports closing down in N America-- NBA, NHL amd FFootball all suspending
And in Canada, the PMs wife tests + after a visit to the UK.

[HHTel]

Canadian leader Justin Trudeau's wife has tested positive for coronavirus.
Sophie Gregoire Trudeau was “feeling well” but would remain in isolation, a statement from Mr Trudeau’s office said.
The Prime Minister will not be tested for Covid-19 despite his wife’s diagnosis because he has shown no symptoms, it added. But they will both remain in isolation for a planned period of 14 days.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/c ... li=BBoPWjQ

[sateeb]

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

The US is now the world leader with 65 confirmed new cases(8th overall) surpassing China at 21.

[Bamboo Grove]

What's the known situation in Thailand? Bangkok? Hua Hin? For the last three years I've had Thai teachers and headmasters visiting our school and last summer I was in Bangkok to teach Thai teachers. They just visited us two weeks ago and have now returned to Thailand. Today the leader of the delegation told me that she can't go to her university for 14 days.

[PeteC]

Finland is not on the Thai restricted list as far as I know. Did she visit anywhere else in Europe?

[Bamboo Grove]

No, only Finland. I guess, it's not about the visit to Finland but more about the situation in Thailand. Although, the numbers in Finland are rising very fast now.