The Wuhan Coronavirus [Covid-19, the Honey Badger virus]

[TrumanCash]

I would add to post #1260 above Wim Hof breathing and cold therapy which has been shown scientifically to greatly enhance the immune system. The breathing exercises are easy to learn. Both breathing and cold showers are free.

And if one has been wanting to totally exclude sugar in all its forms (including fructose) from one's diet, now is the time. I would also add eating only whole foods and staying totally away from packaged foods and eating healthy fats like fish oils, olive oil, flax seed oil, etc.

[Delight]

Apparently this enables a community to exclude infected people from entering an area?

San Antonio mayor declares 'public health emergency' over coronavirus concerns
The declaration allows the city to bar any previously quarantined person from entering the city of San Antonio.
Author: KENS 5 Staff (KENS 5)
Published: 2:27 PM CST March 2, 2020


SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg on Monday declared a "local state of disaster and a public health emergency" over concerns about the potential spread of coronavirus.

The declaration activates the city's emergency management plan and authorizes the city to "commandeer or use any private property, temporarily acquire, by lease or other means, sites required for temporary housing units or emergency shelters for evacuees, subject to compensation requirements."

It also allows the city to "take any actions necessary to promote health and suppress disease, including quarantine, examining and regulating hospitals, (and) regulating ingress and egress from the city."

The declaration concludes by saying that "no previously quarantined person shall be permitted to enter the City of San Antonio until further notice."


The emergency declaration comes after news over the weekend that a patient who had been in quarantine at JBSA-Lackland tested positive after her release. She had been in the public for about 12 hours, visiting North Star Mall and a hotel near the San Antonio International Airport.

Health officials said she posed a low risk to the public based on time spent with people in public and distance from those people.

However, Nirenberg and Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff called the release "unacceptable" and are demanding a third test to be conducted on all people in quarantine before they are released. The declaration also says that no previously quarantined person shall be released into the public until further notice.

"We simply cannot have a screw-up like this from our federal partners," Nirenberg said at a news conference Monday morning. "As a result of this, I strongly believe that all the individuals who were scheduled to be released from the 14-day quarantine today should be retested and kept in quarantine until the results confirm that they are negative for the coronavirus."

So far, there have been 11 people who tested positive for coronavirus from quarantine in San Antonio. Those include nine passengers from the Diamond Princess cruise ship, one from the first group of evacuees from China and a patient flown to San Antonio from quarantine in California.

BREAKING: Bexar County joins San Antonio in declaring health emergency, ordering coronavirus evacuees to stay in quarantine
Sig Christenson and Lauren Caruba March 2, 2020 Updated: March 2, 2020 5:30 p.m.

City and county officials on Monday afternoon each declared a local state of disaster and public health emergency to keep more than 120 coronavirus evacuees at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland — and forbid the influx of new evacuees.

The 122 evacuees from the Diamond Princess cruise ship were to be released Monday, having completed a federally mandated two-week quarantine.

Mayor Ron Nirenberg was the first to declare an emergency, with Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff following suit hours later.

“I, Mayor Ron Nirenberg, declare that ingress into and travel through the City of San Antonio from Lackland by those persons that have been quarantined in the facility is not permitted,” the city’s emergency declaration said. “No previously quarantined person shall be permitted to enter the City of San Antonio until further notice.”

The declarations could compel the evacuees, who have not tested positive for the virus, to stay in quarantine for at least a week longer under state law, possibly pitting local and federal officials against each other over the handling of the passengers. It also outlined the city’s authority to use private property to house the evacuees and “take any actions necessary to promote health and suppress disease.”

Read the health emergency from the mayor
Mayor declares public health emergency
On ExpressNews.com: CDC: Coronavirus patient released in San Antonio later turned up positive for infection

Earlier in the day, Nirenberg and Wolff had called on federal officials to extend the quarantine of the remaining evacuees at Lackland until they could be tested once more for the coronavirus.

Their expected release had been thrown into question after an incident over the weekend, during which another evacuee from Wuhan, China, was discharged from a hospital after appearing to recover from the coronavirus, only to later test positive again.

It is unclear whether the woman is still actively contagious to others.

However, it’s a scenario that local officials said they don’t want repeated with any other evacuees. Nirenberg said it was “totally unacceptable” that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is in charge of the quarantined evacuees, had released a coronavirus patient “prior to receiving all test results,” potentially exposing the public to harm.

Gov. Greg Abbott and state health officials had also urged the CDC to not allow any evacuees to depart until further testing can be conducted and requested that federal officials provide a written rationale before releasing anyone.

Federal officials have yet to respond to local and state officials’ request to keep the evacuees in quarantine. As of early afternoon, the evacuees’ release had been put on hold, one quarantined person told the San Antonio Express-News.

Sig Christenson is a senior reporter who covers the military for the San Antonio Express-News. He is currently reporting on the coronavirus evacuee situation at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.
Video: San Antonio Express-News
The CDC did not respond to requests for comment Monday. The agency abruptly canceled a national briefing with reporters that was scheduled for late in the morning.

More Information
Timeline: Coronavirus-positive evacuee’s movements in San Antonio
Saturday, Feb. 29

2:53 p.m.: After being released from the Texas Center for Infectious Disease, the Wuhan evacuee is dropped off at the Holiday Inn Express near San Antonio International Airport by a third-party driver. She enters her room at 3:11 p.m.

5:13 p.m.: She returns to the hotel lobby and requests a shuttle to the mall, which arrives at 5:23 p.m.

5:30 p.m.: The evacuee visits North Star Mall, including the food court, where she orders Chinese food and eats alone. She visits a number of stores, including Dillard’s, Swarovski and Talbot’s.

7:30 p.m.: She returns to the hotel on the shuttle, reentering her room about five minutes later.

Sunday, March 1

2 a.m.: The evacuee is transported back to TCID in a specialized ambulance, accompanied by medical personnel outfitted in personal protective equipment.

Information courtesy of the city of San Antonio.

Read More
On ExpressNews.com: Two more Diamond Princess evacuees at Lackland test positive for coronavirus, bringing confirmed cases to 8

The Wuhan evacuee, who was in isolation for several weeks at two area hospitals, was released Saturday afternoon after twice testing negative. The results of a third test that same evening came back as a “weakly” positive for the virus, forcing federal authorities to track the woman down Sunday afternoon at the Holiday Inn Express, near San Antonio International Airport. By then, she had also visited North Star Mall.

CDC officials said Sunday that the woman was asymptomatic at the time of her initial release and met all agency criteria for release — resolution of any symptoms and two consecutive sets of negative test results, collected more than 24 hours apart.

“Following the patient’s release, results of a subsequent sample were received and determined to be weakly positive,” the agency said in a statement. “Out of an abundance of caution, CDC decided to bring the individual back into isolation at a local medical facility.”

The woman was taken around 2 a.m. on Sunday back to the Texas Center for Infectious Disease, a state hospital where 10 other coronavirus patients are being treated in isolation.

Her hotel room was closed off and disinfected, and at 2:50 p.m. Monday, North Star closed for 24 hours for further deep cleaning.

“Local health professionals, in whom I have the utmost confidence, are working very hard to prevent the spread of this virus here in San Antonio, and we simply cannot have a screwup like this from our federal partners,” Nirenberg said.

On ExpressNews.com: ‘Calm the panic’: With impending release of cruise ship evacuees, San Antonio health officials begin pivot to community coronavirus plan

After the mistake was realized, Metro Health officials began to retrace the woman’s steps and learned she had taken a hotel shuttle to one of the city’s busiest retail centers, where she stayed for about two hours on Saturday evening. She spent much of that time alone at the food court, eating Chinese food.

The exact number of people the woman had contact with, and possibly infected, is not known. Health officials conducted a investigation, reconstructing her contact with others, and assessed each person’s risk for contracting the highly contagious virus.

The investigation identified that 18 people at the hospital, where tuberculosis cases are typically treated, were potentially exposed to the virus. Most were deemed to be at a low risk, while two were found to be at “medium risk,” said Anita Kurian, who leads the communicable disease division at Metro Health.

Three people at the hotel, including the shuttle bus driver, also could have been exposed. Officials are confident that exposures there were “pretty confined and contained,” Kurian said.

“The investigation has revealed generally encouraging news, considering the circumstances,” Nirenberg said.

An unknown number of people at North Star came into contact with the woman, but officials said the potential exposure at the mall is believed to be low. When she did enter stores — including Dillard’s, Swarovski and Talbot’s — she browsed and did not spend a significant amount of time interacting with store cashiers, Kurian said.

“She did not stay in one place for longer than maybe two minutes, three minutes,” she said. “We certainly want folks to come forward and let us know if they think they’ve been exposed.”

Kurian said the relevant areas at the mall where the woman was have been disinfected, but the mall still voluntarily closed later Monday.

On ExpressNews.com: CDC: Quarantine lifted for first group of coronavirus evacuees at Lackland

The governor called the mistaken release “a case of negligence” on the part of CDC and said everyone the woman came into contact should be tested for the virus.

“What happened in San Antonio and what the CDC did is completely unacceptable,” he said. “I think they understand the magnitude of that error they made.”

The patient had isolated in San Antonio since Feb. 11, after being flown to the United States aboard a State Department-chartered plane. She arrived at Lackland with 90 other evacuees on Feb. 7.

The woman, who was the only person infected from that group, was initially treated at Methodist Hospital | Texsan and was later transferred to TCID when her health improved. The remaining Wuhan evacuees were released from quarantine Feb. 20.

Evacuees from the Diamond Princess cruise ship arrived at Lackland on Feb. 17. Of the 144 who were initially quarantined, seven have tested positive by the CDC. Three more tested positive before leaving Japan, where the ship was docked. They are awaiting confirmatory testing from the CDC.

Staff writer Andrea Zelinski contributed reporting from Austin.

Sig Christenson covers the military and its impact in the San Antonio and Bexar County area. To read more from Sig, become a subscriber. sigc@express-news.net | Twitter: @saddamscribe | Lauren Caruba covers health care and medicine in the San Antonio and Bexar County area. Read her on our free site, mySA.com, and on our subscriber site, ExpressNews.com. | lcaruba@express-news.net | Twitter: @LaurenCaruba"]

[Bo Atkinson]

I've been away but thought this post might be appropriate here, while the URL did not show up in the PA search. I found this translation on another forum and assume it matches the webpage, but apologize if it does not, and of course I assume the source approves of sharing this. I have appreciated seeing what members offered here and wish health and strength to all! ~Bo

I hope you can translate and read this article from a Chinese military whistleblower .
He mentions the system of control with technology and he also says that the Corona virus is because the CIA made a mistake when they were in China to pickup a sample of a bio weapon the Chinese had worked on in secret that accidental was dropped and it leaked out.
He calls this the biggest cover up in the history
https://bakomkulisserna.biz/2020/02/19/jag-ar-en-hog-kinesisk-militar-underrattelsetjansteman-och-jag-vet-sanningen-om-coronavirus-utbrottet-det-ar-mycket-varre-an-media-berattar-for-dig
Jag är en hög kinesisk militär underrättelsetjänsteman och jag vet sanningen om Coronavirus-utbrottet: Det är mycket värre än media berättar för dig!
Det här är den viktigaste informationen du kan få just nu, läs den! Sprid den, så att alla får korrekt information – det är DIN skyldighet! reddit.com liknar vår Flashback +++++++++++++++++++…
bakomkulisserna.biz
1:19 PM
From the article translated on google translate:
We decided that our funds were useless. It was far too destructive for our purposes. We wanted the people of Hong Kong to submit to us; we didn't want to eradicate them. Of course, our American friends had then taken an interest in our work and asked us for a test for their own research and testing purposes. They indicated that they wanted to use them to solve some difficulties in Venezuela.
Normally, we would have agreed, because we maintain friendly relations with the CIA, but given the extremely toxic nature of the agent, we declined.
This turned out to be a serious mistake. The CIA was convinced that we had developed something very powerful and wanted to keep it to ourselves. They offered us a lot of money for one of our researchers. Unfortunately, he agreed to sell a sample to them. We found out just in time for the surrender and tried to prevent it from happening. In the subsequent shoot-out - don't worry about looking for this in the news, it was never reported anywhere - several dozen were killed.
The staging took place in the wildlife market, which has been reported as the site of the transfer - "from animal to human" which started the outbreak. But of course there was no such transfer; it was just the place where the CIA would get the sealed vial containing the substance. The bottle was shattered when it was dropped by the traitor who had agreed to sell it to the Americans.
When we realized that the agent had escaped and was about to spread, we quickly shut down the entire Wuhan. I was one of those tasked with managing the fallout from pollution. Of course, we couldn't keep such a big company secret, so we decided to order our state media to report that a "Coronavirus" had broken out in Wuhan.
In reality, of course, there is no "coronavirus".
Everything was fabricated.
It was one of my colleagues who came up with the brilliant idea of pretending that people with the usual flu were suffering from the Corona virus. This allowed us to hide the disease. Let me explain.
It is currently flu season in China. When we realized that we could no longer control the spread of the drug, we sent our men to all hospitals and instructed all doctors to diagnose every case of the common flu as "coronavirus". We came up with a new name - 2019-nCoV - and handed out "fact sheets" that described a complicated illness.

[Delight]

CALIFORNIA
Anxiety mounts among U.S. health workers on the front lines of coronavirus outbreak
Dr. Brian Lee, emergency department medical director at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange
Hospitals have stockpiled protective equipment amid the coronavirus outbreak.(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
By SOUMYA KARLAMANGLASTAFF WRITER
MARCH 2, 20205 AM

Doctors and nurses say they are alarmed by reports that multiple health workers in the United States have been sickened by a deadly coronavirus and that hospitals and other healthcare facilities appear to have become hot spots for the spread of infections.

On Sunday, health officials announced that two staff members at a Northern California hospital had contracted COVID-19 from a patient. A day earlier, officials said that a health worker at a Seattle nursing home had been hospitalized with the disease and that several more staff members would probably test positive in the coming days.

Medical workers on the front lines of an epidemic often make up a disproportionate number of cases because of their close contact with sick patients and repeated exposure to a virus. Some hospital staffers say they fear delays in testing for COVID-19 in the U.S. have exposed them to the virus already.

In the United States, the conversations taking place in hospital hallways and clinic break rooms are heightened by the specter of China’s death toll, which includes several medical workers who have died not only of COVID-19 infection but of ailments caused by overwork and fatigue.

One of the most publicized deaths from the global outbreak has been that of Dr. Li Wenliang, a 34-year-old physician who sounded the alarm about sick patients in Wuhan, China, the outbreak’s epicenter.

There are more than 80 reported cases in the United States. Sunday night, officials in Washington state announced that a second person infected with the virus had died: a man in his 70s who lived at a nursing home. They also reported four new cases, bringing the total in King County to 10.

With the coronavirus expected to spread within the United States, doctors and nurses say they are nervously watching as stockpiles of masks and other protective gear in hospitals dwindle amid an equipment shortage. The flu season has further complicated efforts to identify suspected COVID-19 cases because the two infections have similar symptoms.

Physicians say it has become increasingly challenging to monitor the shifting recommendations for treating and testing for COVID-19 while also trying to care for anxious patients and prevent exposure to the virus among themselves and their colleagues.

“I have to go back home and I have to worry about my family and what I could be carrying back to them,” said Dr. Suman Radhakrishna, an infectious disease specialist at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles. “There are no martyrs here.”

The novel coronavirus originated in China late last year and has since infected more than 89,000 people in dozens of countries. The first evidence that the virus was circulating in the United States came last week when a patient at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento was diagnosed with the virus and hadn’t traveled to an affected country or had close contact with anyone who did.

That patient has exposed dozens, if not hundreds, of health workers to COVID-19 and provides a glimpse into the consequences of insufficient safety measures. The patient was not treated with the recommended COVID-19 precautions because for several days the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would not allow her to be tested.

At UC Davis Medical Center, 124 nurses and other staff members have been asked to stay home because of possible exposure to the patient, according to the state nurses union.

Before being transferred to UC Davis, the patient had been admitted to NorthBay VacaValley Hospital in Vacaville. On Sunday, officials announced that two workers at the Solano County facility had COVID-19.

“This underscores the challenging environment that health care workers everywhere face to stem the spread of communicable diseases, including COVID-19,” Dr. Bela Matyas, health officer for Solano County, said in a statement.

One of the infected healthcare workers is a Solano County resident and the other lives in Alameda County, officials said. The case is the first for Alameda County, which has declared a local public health emergency in response.

For most people, COVID-19 causes a mild sickness, and some who are infected do not even know they are ill. The virus has been estimated to kill two of every 100 people who contract it, though the risk is lower for younger people and higher for the elderly, experts said.

But medical professionals can be in more danger than others. Being exposed to multiple people who are very sick — the way someone working in a hospital would be — typically makes someone sicker than if they were exposed to only one person who was mildly ill.

Plus, hospital procedures, such as intubating a patient, may release large amounts of the virus that can easily infect workers in the room. When SARS, another coronavirus, was spreading around the world in 2003, a single patient at a hospital in Hong Kong is believed to have infected 138 people with the disease.

It is unclear whether this coronavirus will be that transmissible in a hospital setting. One small study of COVID-19 patients hospitalized with pneumonia in Wuhan found that 41% of cases appeared to be hospital-acquired. A much larger analysis, evaluating 45,000 COVID-19 patients in mainland China, found that 3.8% were healthcare workers.

In outbreaks in other countries, the virus has shown rapid spread in high-density settings, including hospitals, said Lawrence Gostin, the director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law. If the virus sweeps the U.S. the way it has other countries, healthcare facilities could be filled with COVID-19 patients, he said.

“Not only will we see many deaths, but we’ll see anywhere from 5% to 20% of people infected needing hospitalization,” Gostin said. “How will America cope with that?”

At Hollywood Presbyterian hospital, panic among the staff began to escalate last week as federal officials began discussing the possibility of closing schools and said the virus was expected to spread within U.S. communities, Radhakrishna said.

When a patient showed up at the hospital with a cough, staffers initially jumped to a false conclusion that the patient may have COVID-19, she said. The news spread swiftly across the hospital.

“All of a sudden, in a matter of minutes, it became a big thing,” she said. “It brings back memories of when we didn’t know what HIV was up to and everyone was so afraid.”

The fear is stoked by the constant stream of new and sometimes conflicting information about the virus. Officials regularly change protocols around testing and treatment as they learn more.

“I’ve never heard the words ‘rapidly evolving’ more times than I have in the past three weeks,” said Adam Blackstone, spokesman for the Hospital Assn. of Southern California.

Though the number of cases in the country remains relatively low, increasing concerns involving healthcare and other front-line workers have surfaced in recent days.

On Thursday, a whistleblower complaint alleged that federal health workers were not provided adequate training and protective gear when dealing with quarantined people at two California military bases. The whistleblower has also alleged retaliation by superiors for speaking up.

In a Seattle suburb, a nursing home called Life Care Center has become a focal point of the virus scare.
There, more than 50 residents and staffers have symptoms, officials said. Twenty-five firefighters who visited the nursing home while people were ill have also been asked to self-quarantine, according to the International Assn. of Fire Fighters.

On Sunday night, Washington officials announced that the state’s second person to die of the COVID-19 virus was a resident of Life Care. He was in his 70s and had underlying health conditions. The first man who died was in his 50s and had no apparent connection to the nursing home.

Some healthcare workers are questioning the recommended precautions as cases mount nationwide. The CDC advises that all healthcare personnel who interact with infected patients wear gowns, gloves, goggles and masks. But UC San Francisco nurse Maureen Dugan worries that level of protection is not sufficient given how little is known about this new virus.

“That leaves parts of our face potentially and our neck and feet available for exposure,” she said. “We believe in the precautionary principle … you use the highest level of personal protective equipment.”

Similarly, UC Davis nurse Melissa Johnson-Camacho, the chief nurse representative for the California Nurses Assn., said she is pushing for the hospital to adopt a protocol developed for the Ebola virus to use for COVID-19 patients. She said relying on CDC recommendations isn’t enough.

“There’s definitely alarm there in that area,” she said.

At many hospitals, the flu season has muddled the COVID-19 picture. The two diseases have identical symptoms, including cough and fever, so physicians can’t rely on how a patient is feeling to determine the cause.

USC infectious disease specialist Dr. Neha Nanda said physicians still consider a patient’s travel history when deciding whether a COVID-19 test is needed. So far, there has been only one confirmed case of COVID-19 in L.A. County.

Without a history of travel to China, Italy or another country with a large outbreak, doctors assume the patient probably has the flu, she said.

“The prevalence of influenza is way higher than COVID-19 in our community,” Nanda said. “But it’s not as foolproof as it was two weeks back.”

Times staff writers Alex Wigglesworth in Los Angeles and Richard Read in Seattle contributed to this report.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CNQB-Q67DpE

[ExomatrixTV]

Max Igan: Coronavirus - the "common cold" weaponized & propagandized to inaugurate a global NWO population control and financial reset system.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=t9QToNEwDCw

Brisbane, Australia - In this interview with Alfred Lambremont Webre, Max Igan deconstructs the Coronavirus as the "common cold" weaponized and propagandized in order to implement a global NWO population and financial reset. Max Igan also discusses the recent Australian fires in the context of a Matrix, NWO operation.

[Delight]

Washington State is going to use a Motel for quarantine and modular houses (mentioned for homeless). "Multiple sites" for facilities..... c/o needing masks for healthcare workers.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VYFGv7Y4yEU

[rgray222]

Worth watching

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=PWY0oZV51VY

[Agape]

More strangeness. The leader of Shenchoenji, obscure South Korean cult with Christian like motives offers “apology” to the people of South Korea for neglecting the danger of virus spread inside his church

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=m_k8dwwz6X0

From today’s news:

Murder probe sought for South Korea sect leader at centre of Covid 19 outbreak


Looks little theatrical but not quite honest to me. Of course it’s a custom he’s made to follow, not more than that. Of course they’re launching investigation to the sect and tested all 125 000 members to the day of whom allegedly more than half tested positive. That’s a sad news.

Where is the real origin of the Covid 19 then, will we ever get to know. South Korea has some of the updates biolabs in the world where genetic experiments of all kinds happened of recent. It would not be the first time that some clandestine sect used weapon of mass destruction OR were used by someone to ignite an “apocalypse”.

Someone planting the virus in Wuhan so that the whole thing looks “made in China”.

It’s a fake apology. Give the Korean people right to speak out as well !!! They’re all “under control” and fearing the government, the good looking democratic government , quite like the Chinese people.

[Jean-Luc]

Basic hygiene and good spirit does help.

This is what Sadhguru was thinking/singing (with thanks to Paul Simon & ...YouTuber Alvin Oon) about the Coronavirus outbreak some weeks ago and how as human beings, we should handle this... gracefully.

Hint : Sit back and listen from 4:10

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mP-mCfo4-f8

(NB. For some unknown reason I can't inbed this)

[Tintin]

The UK Government has now provided its guidance and advice.

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Guidance

Coronavirus (COVID-19): latest information and advice

Information for the public on the outbreak of coronavirus, including the current situation in the UK and information about the virus and its symptoms.

Published 24 January 2020
Last updated 2 March 2020 — see all updates
From: Department of Health and Social Care and Public Health England

Contents
- Number of cases
- Risk level
- Returning travellers
- Information about the virus
- Recent government action
- Diagnosis and analysis
- Further information

Number of cases
Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty announces 12 new cases of COVID-19

As of 9am on 2 March, a total of 13,525 people have been tested in the UK, of which 13,485 were confirmed negative and 40 positive.

The Department of Health and Social Care will be publishing updated data on this page every day at 2pm until further notice. This data is accurate as of 9am on the day of publication.

If more cases are confirmed in the UK, it will be announced by the Chief Medical Officer of the affected country.

Risk level
Based on the World Health Organization’s declaration that this is a public health emergency of international concern, the UK Chief Medical Officers have raised the risk to the UK from low to moderate.

Returning travellers
Stay indoors and avoid contact with other people immediately if you’ve travelled to the UK from:

• Hubei province in China in the last 14 days, even if you do not have symptoms
• Iran, lockdown areas in northern Italy or special care zones in South Korea since 19 February, even if you do not have symptoms
• other parts of mainland China or South Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan or Thailand in the last 14 days and have a cough, high temperature or shortness of breath (even if your symptoms are mild)
• other parts of northern Italy (anywhere north of Pisa, Florence and Rimini), Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar or Vietnam since 19 February and have a cough, high temperature or shortness of breath (even if your symptoms are mild)

Use the 111 online coronavirus service to find out what to do next.

Do not go to a GP surgery, pharmacy or hospital.

In Scotland call your GP or NHS 24 on 111 out of hours.

In Wales call 111 (if available in your area) or 0845 46 47.

Lockdown areas in northern Italy:

• in Lombardy: Codogno, Castiglione d’Adda, Casalpusterlengo, Fombio, Maleo, Somaglia, Bertonico, Terranova dei Passerini, Castelgerundo and San Fiorano
• in Veneto: Vo’ Euganeo

Special care zones in South Korea:

• Daegu
• Cheongdo

See maps of the specified areas.

This guidance is based on the recommendations of the UK Chief Medical officers. These areas have been identified because of the volume of air travel from affected areas, understanding of other travel routes and number of reported cases. This list will be kept under review.

For areas with direct flights to the UK we are carrying out enhanced monitoring. Passengers will be told how to report any symptoms they develop during the flight, at the time of arrival, or after leaving the airport.

Read more about what you should do if you’re asked to self-isolate.

Information about the virus
A coronavirus is a type of virus. As a group, coronaviruses are common across the world. Typical symptoms of coronavirus include fever and a cough that may progress to a severe pneumonia causing shortness of breath and breathing difficulties.

Generally, coronavirus can cause more severe symptoms in people with weakened immune systems, older people, and those with long-term conditions like diabetes, cancer and chronic lung disease.

Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is a new strain of coronavirus first identified in Wuhan City, China.

The NHS website has more information about how coronavirus is spread and answers common questions about the virus.

Recent government action
On 10 February, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, announced strengthened legal powers to protect public health.

The Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020 have been put in place to reduce the risk of further human-to-human transmission in this country by keeping individuals in isolation where public health professionals believe there is a reasonable risk an individual may have the virus.

Diagnosis and analysis
The UK is one of the first countries outside China to have a prototype specific laboratory test for this new disease. Healthcare professionals who are contacted by a patient with symptoms following travel to an affected area have been advised to submit samples to PHE for testing. Individuals should be treated in isolation

After the experience of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003, PHE developed a series of diagnostic tests to detect any member of the family of coronaviruses. These have been used for several years, and were able to detect the first UK case of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) in 2012.

With the first reported publication of the genome sequence of a 2019 novel coronavirus, PHE was able to rapidly develop further specific tests for this virus, working with WHO and global network of laboratories.

When a clinician suspects novel coronavirus (COVID-19), they take samples from the nose, throat and deeper respiratory samples, package and send them safely to PHE Colindale. PHE can provide a laboratory result from this specific virus on the same working day.

PHE also has the capability to sequence the viral genome and compare this to published sequences from China, if a case occurs. This will provide valuable information on any mutations in the virus over time and allow an improved understanding of how it spreads.

Further information
Coronavirus (COVID-19): UK government response

Foreign and Commonwealth Office travel advice

Published 24 January 2020
Last updated 2 March 2020

[greybeard]

UK government: Coronavirus could leave one in five absent from work

Tom BelgerFinance and policy reporter
Yahoo Finance UK41 minutes ago


Up to a fifth of the entire workforce could be absent from work if the coronavirus outbreak significantly escalates in the UK, according to the government.

The government published plan for tackling the coronavirus on Tuesday, with a plan to “research, contain, delay and mitigate” the virus. The plan says previous disease outbreaks mean “widespread exposure” may be inevitable in the UK, but says slowing down its spread is still key.

The report says officials are uncertain about the impact on UK businesses, but say it is possible as many as one in five employees could be absent “in a stretching scenario.”

Police could be forced to concentrate on “serious crimes and maintaining public order” if a significant number of officers and staff are forced to stay at home.

Meanwhile NHS and Northern Irish health services may delay non-urgent care and bring staff on leave and even retired workers back on duty if they suffer similar staffing problems. All the emergency services are drawing up contingency plans to sustain their “critical functions’ if available staff numbers drop.

Read more: Hand sanitiser sales soar 255% as coronavirus fears grow

The government may consider actively encouraging UK employees to work from home if the disease becomes more established in the UK. Some firms have already closed their offices after cases have been confirmed among individual staff. Other potential radical measures include “reducing the number of large-scale gatherings” and wider school closures.

The report notes that lower staffing levels mean “everyone will face increased pressures at work,” and says supporting staff welfare is “critical.”

Official NHS advice is for people with potential symptoms to call the 111 coronavirus advice line rather than attending a GP surgery, pharmacy or hospital. They may then be asked to self-isolate for up to 14 days, staying away from work, public transport and avoiding visitors.

The public have been urged to wash their hands with soap regularly, only share reliable information and check up on family, friends and neighbours.

England’s chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty said on Tuesday that around 1% of people who contract the virus “might end up dying.” The vulnerable and elderly are particularly at risk.

My sons wife is a pharmacologist and reckons that this virus is hyped up and the mortality rate no worse that flu.
Lets face it many die every day as a result of motor accidents or cancer.
Im not belittling the risk but this time next year what will we be discussing.
Chris

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by rgray222 (here)
Worth watching

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=PWY0oZV51VY

Yes, it is. Of course, he has a point (about the dramatic reporting, and frequent misreporting, in the press).

But this video is exactly a month old, and that's a long time in epidemiology. Claims of similarity to regular flu don't hold. (And re Max Igan above, whether weaponized or not, it's no version of a "common cold". )

Deaths from Covid-19 are very low right now compared with dozens of other daily life risks, but in a month or two they may well not be. It's the very legitimate and logical mathematical projection into the future, combined with the near-impossibility of containing this thing, that's the issue.

[Kamikaze]

Posted by wavydome (here)
I've been away but thought this post might be appropriate here, while the URL did not show up in the PA search. I found this translation on another forum and assume it matches the webpage, but apologize if it does not, and of course I assume the source approves of sharing this. I have appreciated seeing what members offered here and wish health and strength to all! ~Bo

I hope you can translate and read this article from a Chinese military whistleblower .
He mentions the system of control with technology and he also says that the Corona virus is because the CIA made a mistake when they were in China to pickup a sample of a bio weapon the Chinese had worked on in secret that accidental was dropped and it leaked out.
He calls this the biggest cover up in the history
https://bakomkulisserna.biz/2020/02/19/jag-ar-en-hog-kinesisk-militar-underrattelsetjansteman-och-jag-vet-sanningen-om-coronavirus-utbrottet-det-ar-mycket-varre-an-media-berattar-for-dig
Jag är en hög kinesisk militär underrättelsetjänsteman och jag vet sanningen om Coronavirus-utbrottet: Det är mycket värre än media berättar för dig!
Det här är den viktigaste informationen du kan få just nu, läs den! Sprid den, så att alla får korrekt information – det är DIN skyldighet! reddit.com liknar vår Flashback +++++++++++++++++++…
bakomkulisserna.biz
1:19 PM
From the article translated on google translate:
We decided that our funds were useless. It was far too destructive for our purposes. We wanted the people of Hong Kong to submit to us; we didn't want to eradicate them. Of course, our American friends had then taken an interest in our work and asked us for a test for their own research and testing purposes. They indicated that they wanted to use them to solve some difficulties in Venezuela.
Normally, we would have agreed, because we maintain friendly relations with the CIA, but given the extremely toxic nature of the agent, we declined.
This turned out to be a serious mistake. The CIA was convinced that we had developed something very powerful and wanted to keep it to ourselves. They offered us a lot of money for one of our researchers. Unfortunately, he agreed to sell a sample to them. We found out just in time for the surrender and tried to prevent it from happening. In the subsequent shoot-out - don't worry about looking for this in the news, it was never reported anywhere - several dozen were killed.
The staging took place in the wildlife market, which has been reported as the site of the transfer - "from animal to human" which started the outbreak. But of course there was no such transfer; it was just the place where the CIA would get the sealed vial containing the substance. The bottle was shattered when it was dropped by the traitor who had agreed to sell it to the Americans.
When we realized that the agent had escaped and was about to spread, we quickly shut down the entire Wuhan. I was one of those tasked with managing the fallout from pollution. Of course, we couldn't keep such a big company secret, so we decided to order our state media to report that a "Coronavirus" had broken out in Wuhan.
In reality, of course, there is no "coronavirus".
Everything was fabricated.
It was one of my colleagues who came up with the brilliant idea of pretending that people with the usual flu were suffering from the Corona virus. This allowed us to hide the disease. Let me explain.
It is currently flu season in China. When we realized that we could no longer control the spread of the drug, we sent our men to all hospitals and instructed all doctors to diagnose every case of the common flu as "coronavirus". We came up with a new name - 2019-nCoV - and handed out "fact sheets" that described a complicated illness.

I read through it and it's written in perfect Swedish. I would not presume someone in China will be doing it like that. Also the whole story read like a well written plot of a horror story for a book. Misinformation in the whole. I looked at the reddit English version as well and I would say the Swedish version is better articulated and written with choice of words. But the English version if the one that came out earlier.
They have summed up most of the fringe intelligence conspiracy as reality. Take much salt if your gonna eat it. Basically reads like the end of the world sci-fi.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Jean-Luc (here)
Hint : Sit back and listen from 4:10

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mP-mCfo4-f8

This definitely deserves a triple bump. (Yes, start at 4:10.)

Inspired!

[thepainterdoug]

Regarding the Dr Drew video. It seems an attempt to keep calm and stop panic ,and thats fine.

But in my mind making any correlations to the yearly influenza statistics and deaths etc do not apply for this simple reason. If were going by deaths over a certain period, than the closing of cities, businesses, schools, factories the restrictions of travel should apply to the deadly infulenza flu . And NOT the mild Covid 19 flu which by all statistics , is of low risk, and only to the sick and elderly.
This is where statistics don't correlate to the picture we all see.

so whats the story here?

[Pam]

Posted by Jean-Luc (here)
Basic hygiene and good spirit does help.

This is what Sadhguru was thinking/singing (with thanks to Paul Simon & ...YouTuber Alvin Oon) about the Coronavirus outbreak some weeks ago and how as human beings, we should handle this... gracefully.

Hint : Sit back and listen from 4:10

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mP-mCfo4-f8

(NB. For some unknown reason I can't inbed this)

Excellent advice. Two days ago I started absorbing the fear and I could feel my body becoming depleted. I really had to stop and remember that if I do what I can to protect my self there is absolutely no need to worry about the things that I don't have control over. Once I got centered in that, it was like a load was taken off. It is so easy to shift into fear without being aware.

Even if you take out the god angle, the serenity prayer offers invaluable guidance.




Serenity Prayer – Full Version (composed in 1940s)

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
As it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
If I surrender to His Will;
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life
And supremely happy with Him
Forever and ever in the next.

[Ben]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by Jean-Luc (here)
Hint : Sit back and listen from 4:10

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mP-mCfo4-f8

This definitely deserves a triple bump. (Yes, start at 4:10.)

Inspired!

Wow. I didn't realize how much negative and unhelpful emotion I've been holding around this entire thing, until I watched this video.

I just cried with both sadness and joy.

Beautiful.

[thepainterdoug]

This was sent to me. Perhaps helpful to some/

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT - CORONAVIRUS (reposted):
Last evening dining out with friends, one of their uncles, who's graduated with a master's degree and who worked in Shenzhen Hospital (Guangdong Province, China) sent him the following notes on Coronavirus for guidance:
1. If you have a runny nose and sputum, you have a common cold
2. Coronavirus pneumonia is a dry cough with no runny nose.
3. This new virus is not heat-resistant and will be killed by a temperature of just 26/27 degrees. It hates the Sun.
4. If someone sneezes with it, it takes about 10 feet before it drops to the ground and is no longer airborne.
5. If it drops on a metal surface it will live for at least 12 hours - so if you come into contact with any metal surface - wash your hands as soon as you can with a bacterial soap
6. On fabric it can survive for 6-12 hours. normal laundry detergent will kill it
7. Drinking warm water is effective for all viruses. Try not to drink liquids with ice
8. Wash your hands frequently as the virus can only live on your hands for 5-10 minutes, but - a lot can happen during that time - you can rub your eyes, pick your nose unwittingly and so on.
9. You should also gargle as a prevention. A simple solution of salt in warm water will suffice.
10. Can't emphasise enough - drink plenty of water
THE SYMPTOMS
1. It will first infect the throat, so you'll have a sore throat lasting 3/4 days
2. The virus then blends into a nasal fluid that enters the trachea and then the lungs, causing pneumonia. This takes about 5/6 days further.
3. With the pneumonia comes high fever and difficulty in breathing.
4. The nasal congestion is not like the normal kind. You feel like you're drowning. It's imperative you then seek immediate attention.

[Tintin]

Two documents with which UK citizens may do well to familiarise ourselves with would be these, now saved in the library as PDFs. (Related post here)

• UK_Public_Health_(Control_of_Disease)_Act_1984
  Link: http://avalonlibrary.net/UK_Public_H...)_Act_1984.pdf
• The_Health_Protection_(Coronavirus)_Regulations_2020
  Link: http://avalonlibrary.net/Coronavirus...tions_2020.pdf

[Agape]

Posted by thepainterdoug (here)
Regarding the Dr Drew video. It seems an attempt to keep calm and stop panic ,and thats fine.

But in my mind making any correlations to the yearly influenza statistics and deaths etc do not apply for this simple reason. If were going by deaths over a certain period, than the closing of cities, businesses, schools, factories the restrictions of travel should apply to the deadly infulenza flu . And NOT the mild Covid 19 flu which by all statistics , is of low risk, and only to the sick and elderly.
This is where statistics don't correlate to the picture we all see.

so whats the story here?

In a spirit of laughing Buddha Satguru( that saved my day, thank you so much for posting Jean-Luc ), I think it’s because we are “almost done here”.

Despite its many protests and critical opinions this civilisation is approaching critical threshold of suffocation, we are overwhelmed , over worked, sleep deprived, dependant on plastics, drugs and chemicals, our eye sight is weaning.

I’ll quote this amazing statistics again as I was almost sure I’m correct but the numbers shocked me too:

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-s...affic-injuries

Apprpximately 1.35 million people die each year as a result of traffic crashes

That’s about 3.287 death a day globally from car crashes.

Yes every road I know of is getting dangerous every day and jammed senselessly in the height of the season. The fumes we are breathing ..
I still remember the smell of fresh air, so fragrant so soothing but one has to go very far to find it these days.
Yes I’m definitely in greater times risk everyday to die in car crash than die from Coronavirus and I suppose it’s statistically similar for the rest of us.

It’s on the WHO page too. Do they care to elucidate the topic and admit that we are overwhelmed, the cities are overwhelmed, with huge dumps of human waste under, it too starts seeping out one day, today or tomorrow err

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=V2QOfVY1ovM

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=L2TxUFp1fXk

“It’s only at the brink of destruction that people find the will to change..it’s at the precipice we evolve”


As no one believes any of this is “for real” it will evolve.

“We are in uncharted territory”.


No news under the Sun


🦢