Category Archives: pandemic

China coronavirus: first fatality reported outside Hubei province as man dies in Hebei near Beijing, while eight cities now on lockdown | South China Morning Post

Travel bans have been imposed on eight cities in Hubei province: Wuhan, Huanggang, Ezhou, Chibi, Xiantao, Qianjiang, Zhijiang and Lichuan

Source: China coronavirus: first fatality reported outside Hubei province as man dies in Hebei near Beijing, while eight cities now on lockdown | South China Morning Post

Wuhan virus: Chinese doctor investigating outbreak says he was infected, East Asia News & Top Stories – The Straits Times

BEIJING (REUTERS) – A Chinese physician who was investigating the outbreak of a mysterious new virus in central China says he has himself been infected.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Source: Wuhan virus: Chinese doctor investigating outbreak says he was infected, East Asia News & Top Stories – The Straits Times

Wuhan coronavirus has entered transmission stage among families and hospitals, taking it a step closer to full-blown community epidemic, Hong Kong expert warns | South China Morning Post

Hong Kong University’s Professor Yuen Kwok-yung, a top infectious diseases expert, says the transmission of the coronavirus has entered its ‘third wave’.
— Read on www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3047022/wuhan-coronavirus-20-other-cities-china-affected

WHO says new China coronavirus could spread, warns hospitals worldwide – Reuters

There may have been limited human-to-human transmission of a new coronavirus in China within families, and it is possible there could be a wider outbreak, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
— Read on www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia-who/who-says-new-china-coronavirus-could-spread-warns-hospitals-worldwide-idUSKBN1ZD16J

WHO decries ‘collective failure’ as measles kills 140,000 – Reuters

Measles infected nearly 10 million people in 2018 and killed 140,000, mostly children, as devastating outbreaks of the viral disease hit every region of the world, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
— Read on www.reuters.com/article/us-health-measles-who/who-decries-collective-failure-as-measles-kills-140000-idUSKBN1Y92CM

European regulators consider 2nd Ebola vaccine | CIDRAP

Most of the cases over the past 3 weeks are from four health zones, and the majority of those are from the Biakato Mines area in Ituri province’s Mandima health zone. The rest are linked to known transmission chains in Binase, Katwa and Lwemba health areas. Lwemba is where a violent attack recently occurred that killed an Ebola response community health workers and severely injured his wife. The WHO warned that spread to earlier affected or still unaffected neighboring areas is possible and expected and should be closely monitored. It added that about half of the people infected in the last 21 days were diagnosed outside of the health zone where they were exposed, mostly people traveling to or from Mandima health zone.

Source: European regulators consider 2nd Ebola vaccine | CIDRAP