CoronaVirus in China - Updates & Discussion

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China
Jun 13,2020
Jun 12 , 2020, 0:00 to 24:00


Total Infection :
84671(+12)
New cases:12
in which
mainland of China :5 imported cases，each 1 in Sichuan，Shanghai，Guangdong，Tianjin, Hainan.
In breaking news, six local cases have appeared in Beijing. More details later, the virus carried by imported salmon.
HongKong 1 case
Total Death : 4645(+0)

Total Cured : 79903
Existing cases: 123

total imported cases:1808


http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-06/13/c_139135844.htm
Beijing's major wholesale market suspended after personnel, surroundings test positive for COVID-19
Source: Xinhua| 2020-06-13 10:28:13|Editor: huaxia

BEIJING, June 13 (Xinhua) -- Xinfadi, the largest wholesale market with fruit, vegetable and meat supplies in Beijing, was suspended on Saturday for disinfection after personnel working there and the surroundings have tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

New COVID-19 cases reported on Thursday and Friday were found to have been to the market located in Fengtai District, leading to the testings.

All personnel in the market will receive nucleic acid testings, according to a statement jointly issued early Saturday by the market regulation bureau and the health commission of the district.

To ensure the market supply, special sections have been set up for sales of vegetables and fruits with close-off management, said the statement.

Covering a total area of 112 hectares, the Xinfadi market has some 1,500 management personnel and more than 4,000 tenants.

Beijing reported three confirmed COVID-19 cases on Thursday and Friday, with one of them in Xicheng District and the others in Fengtai District. Enditem

The latest news is that the covid 19 virus has been found in directly imported salmon, initially infected by employees responsible for cutting salmon.
Major supermarkets have temporarily removed all imported salmon from their shelves and tested all meat and seafood.

Chinese salmon are all imported, this time in the unopened imported salmon found on the virus is no one thought of before.
This virus is too cunning, may like meat, fish and so on, vast the United States meat processing plant employees are also infected with the virus.

 

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China
Jun 14,2020
Jun 13 , 2020, 0:00 to 24:00


Total Infection :
84731(+58)
New cases:58
in which
mainland of China :19 imported cases， 1 in Chongqing，1 in Shanghai，17 in Guangdong from the same flight from Bangladesh.
In breaking news, 36 local cases have found out in Beijing from the virus carried by imported salmon.2 local cases in Liaoning,Close contact of patients diagnosed in Beijing
HongKong 1 case
Total Death : 4645(+0)

Total Cured : 79906
Existing cases: 180(+55)

total imported cases:1829(+10)

Update: Chinese mainland reports 57 new confirmed COVID-19 cases
Source: Xinhua| 2020-06-14 10:45:28|Editor: huaxia

Fourth-graders attend a class at Yangfangdian central primary school in Haidian District of Beijing, capital of China, June 8, 2020. (Xinhua/Ren Chao)

BEIJING, June 14 (Xinhua) -- Chinese health authority said Sunday that it received reports of 57 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland Saturday, of which 38 were domestically transmitted and 19 were imported.

Of the domestically transmitted cases, 36 were reported in Beijing and two in Liaoning Province, the National Health Commission said in its daily report.

No deaths related to the disease were reported Saturday, according to the commission.

On Saturday, two people were discharged from hospitals after recovery.

As of Saturday, the overall confirmed cases on the mainland had reached 83,132, including 129 patients who were still being treated, with one in severe condition.

Altogether 78,369 people had been discharged after recovery and 4,634 people had died of the disease, the commission said.

By Saturday, the Chinese mainland had reported a total of 1,827 imported cases. Of the cases, 1,744 had been discharged from hospitals after recovery, and 83 remained hospitalized, with no one in severe condition. No deaths from the imported cases had been reported. There were currently two suspected case, the commission said.

According to the commission, 3,358 close contacts were still under medical observation after 542 people were discharged from medical observation Saturday.

Also on Saturday, nine new asymptomatic cases, including six from abroad, were reported on the mainland. Two asymptomatic cases were re-categorized as confirmed cases, and two were discharged from medical observation, according to the commission.

The commission said 103 asymptomatic cases, including 53 from abroad, were still under medical observation.

By Saturday, 1,109 confirmed cases including four deaths had been reported in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), 45 confirmed cases in the Macao SAR, and 443 in Taiwan including seven deaths.

A total of 1,061 patients in the Hong Kong SAR, 45 in the Macao SAR, and 431 in Taiwan had been discharged from hospitals after recovery

 

[xuxu1457]

1. China Southern Airlines flight from Dhaka suspended due to surge in imported cases
   
   

A China Southern Airlines flight from Bangladesh to China's Guangzhou was suspended. Flight CZ392 will not run for four weeks, starting from June 22 after 17 passengers tested positive for the coronavirus.

 

[Ashraf. M]

'Really scary': Mass testing in Beijing as fresh outbreak sparks alarm
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China
Jun 15,2020
Jun 14, 2020, 0:00 to 24:00


Total Infection :
84784(+49)
New cases:49
in which
mainland of China :10 imported cases， Sichuan 4 cases, Chongqing 2 cases, Shaanxi 2 cases, Shanghai 1 case, Fujian 1 case.
36 local cases have found out in Beijing from the virus carried by imported salmon.3 cases in Hebei,Close contact of patients diagnosed in Beijing
Total Death : 4645(+0)

Total Cured : 79915
Existing cases: 224(+42)

total imported cases:1837
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-06/15/c_139140092.htm
76,499 people screened for COVID-19 in Beijing
Source: Xinhua| 2020-06-15 14:14:35|Editor: huaxia

A medical worker collects throat swab of a resident at a sampling site in Fengtai District of Beijing, capital of China, June 15, 2020. Beijing on Sunday conducted nucleic acid tests on 76,499 people, with 59 testing positive for COVID-19, according to a press conference held Monday. As of 6 a.m. Monday, 193 sampling sites had been set up across Beijing to facilitate nucleic acid testings, said Gao Xiaojun, spokesperson for the municipal health commission. (Xinhua/Li Xin)

BEIJING, June 15 (Xinhua) -- Beijing on Sunday conducted nucleic acid tests on 76,499 people, with 59 testing positive for COVID-19, according to a press conference held Monday.

As of 6 a.m. Monday, 193 sampling sites had been set up across Beijing to facilitate nucleic acid testings, said Gao Xiaojun, spokesperson for the municipal health commission.

In southwestern Beijing's Fengtai District, 8,950 people from Xinfadi, a large wholesale market of fruit, vegetable, and meat, were sampled. A total of 6,075 people, or about 68 percent of the sampled, had finished nucleic acid tests and the results were negative, Gao said. Most of the newly-reported indigenous cases in Beijing were related to the now-closed Xinfadi market.

As of 2 a.m. Sunday, a total of 41,510 people had been sampled in the 11 communities around the Xinfadi Market, of whom 6,284 had been tested for COVID-19 and the results were all negative.

So far, samples from a total of 29,386 people who have been to the market over the past two weeks were collected, and 12,973 nucleic acid tests had been conducted; all tested negative.

Beijing reported 36 new confirmed domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases and six new asymptomatic cases on Sunday, bringing the total confirmed indigenous cases in the Chinese capital city to 499, the municipal health commission said Monday. Enditem

Staff members record the information of a resident (1st L) to conduct nucleic acid test at a sampling site in Fengtai District of Beijing, capital of China, June 15, 2020. Beijing on Sunday conducted nucleic acid tests on 76,499 people, with 59 testing positive for COVID-19, according to a press conference held Monday. As of 6 a.m. Monday, 193 sampling sites had been set up across Beijing to facilitate nucleic acid testings, said Gao Xiaojun, spokesperson for the municipal health commission. (Xinhua/Ren Chao)

 

[Galactic Penguin SST]

Why start from scratch another thread?

There was already the one dedicated to COVID in China:
Real-time update on coronavirus outbreak
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/real-time-update-on-coronavirus-outbreak.650761/post-12105722
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COVID-19: Chinese scientists find selenium may be a dirty secret behind low infection rates

Stephen Chen, South China Morning Post

Posted at Mar 10 2021 12:53 PM

Enshi was an enigma during China's coronavirus outbreak.

The city in western Hubei province recorded six Covid-19 cases per 100,000 residents. Elsewhere in Hubei, infection rates were between two and 20 times higher. Scientists had no clue why the coronavirus spared Enshi until speculation formed last year that the answer might be in its soil.

A new study by Chinese scientists published this week supported the theory and found "human selenium levels may contribute to antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and immune effects in Covid-19".

Enshi has the world's largest deposit of selenium, a non-metal trace element sitting next to deadly arsenic on the periodic table. The concentration of selenium in Enshi's natural environment was so high that overexposure caused some local residents to lose their hair or fingernails.

But "relatively high dietary selenium intake in selenium-rich areas can enhance human immunity ... (and) contribute to resisting Sars-CoV-2", said a team led by Professor Ma Jin of the State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment at the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences in Beijing. The team's paper was published in Environmental Research journal on Sunday.

As selenium levels dropped, the infection rate soared, Ma and colleagues found in data collected from cities across Hubei. Suizhou and Xiaogan, for instance, had the worst selenium deficiency and their positive case rates were the highest outside Wuhan, the provincial capital and home of the first-reported outbreak in China.

The researchers believed the element might have played a "key role" in the human immune response to Sars-CoV-2 via various mechanisms, such as cutting the production of harmful reactive oxygen that could trigger excessive inflammation.

Similar phenomena have occurred elsewhere.

A study published in June and led by Margaret Rayman, professor of nutritional medicine, found the Covid-19 cure rate had a positive correlation with the concentration of selenium in human hair.

In Germany, a study by the Heidelberg University Hospital found Covid-19 patients with lower selenium levels had a higher risk of death.

Heilongjiang, a province in northeast China with the country's lowest selenium level, also recorded the highest death rate at 2.6 per cent, more than four times the average of other provinces outside Hubei, according to Chinese government data.

Li Jianke, professor of nutritional science with Shaanxi Normal University, said these discoveries had prompted some "lively discussions" but the mainstream research community still remained cautious about the results.

"We need more solid evidence. So far, there is no data from a controlled experiment to prove the link really exists," said Li, who was not involved in the study.

In pandemic-hit areas, for instance, volunteers should be recruited to take selenium supplements and compared with those who do not.

"Otherwise, some other factors might be attributed to selenium by mistake," Li said.

One such factor could be demography.

Enshi has one of the longest-living populations in China. Life expectancy there is over 80 years, four years higher than the national average.

Some studies suggest that selenium could have a positive effect on the prevention or treatment of some viruses - including HIV, Ebola, and influenza - but the mechanism remains largely unknown.

A wide range of non-viral health issues, ranging from heart disease and cancer to the effects of ageing have also been linked to selenium. Patients suffering from several types of cancer had less selenium than healthy people, according to some studies.

But several population-wide studies monitoring people's selenium intake failed to find a definitive link.

Molecular-level investigations found the element was involved in various types of critical life processes in cells, such as DNA repair, but excessive selenium could also lead to severe health problems, including brain damage.

"Taking selenium supplements to prevent Covid-19 is not recommended without doctors' supervision," Li said.

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▲ 1. Covid-19 vaccine doses administered. 10th March 2021.

Chinese international travel health certificate officially rolled out

(CGTN) 15:35, March 09, 2021

The international version of China's travel health certificate was officially launched on Monday on WeChat by the Department of Consular Affairs of the Foreign Ministry. It is available for Chinese citizens.

The certificate includes nucleic acid test and serum antibody results, vaccine inoculation and other information. It has an encrypted code to allow authorities to verify the holder's personal information, according to the ministry.

State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that in the near future, as more and more countries agree on mutual recognition of health certificates with China, this international travel health document will play a greater role in promoting the healthy, safe and orderly exchange of transnational personnel, and provide Chinese citizens a solid guarantee when traveling abroad.

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▲ 2. A sample image of a hard copy of the health certificate for international travelers. [Photo/Foreign Ministry's Department of Consular Affairs]

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Still doubting about the role of heredity behind the making of today's World A.I. Matrix?

Dr. Wu Lien Teh

5:55 PM - 10 Mar 2021

Today’s Google doodle celebrates Wu Lien Teh, an epidemiologist who pioneered the use of face masks to control an epidemic over a century before the advent of COVID-19.

Dr. Wu realized that the pneumonic plague was airborne and could spread person-to-person and said people should wear masks. French doctor mocked this, insinuated Asian doctors couldn't be right, refused to wear a mask—and got infected and died.

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Merck abandons bid to develop Covid-19 vaccine

25 Jan 2021

After lacklustre results, company says it will shift focus to potential drugs to treat the disease

Merck, one of the world’s leading vaccine makers, is ending its Covid-19 vaccine development after its two candidates failed to elicit immune responses as strong as those created by shots that are already available.

The US pharmaceutical company also said on Monday that its phase 1 trials showed participants’ response was not as robust as the immune response seen in recovered Covid-19 patients. There were no significant safety issues.

Shares in Merck fell 1.8 per cent to $79.51 in pre-market trading in New York as the company said it would record an unspecified charge in the fourth quarter.

Dean Li, president of Merck research laboratories, said the company remained “resolute in our commitment to contribute to the global effort to relieve the burden of this pandemic on patients, healthcare systems and communities”.

Merck was slow to announce its entry into the race for a Covid-19 vaccine, despite previous successes in vaccines. Instead, two of the first available shots have been developed by companies that previously had no vaccine products on the market: BioNTech and Moderna.

Before Covid-19, Merck had developed a mumps vaccine in what was then a record-breaking four years, created the first Ebola vaccine approved by a US regulator and launched the first vaccine designed to prevent cervical cancer.

Merck will now focus on developing drugs to treat Covid-19. The company has a deal with the US government worth up to $356m to sell a drug to treat the inflammatory response for severe Covid-19 patients if it receives emergency use authorisation.

The second drug is an antiviral in phase 2/3 clinical trials, being developed with Ridgeback Bio. It could be the first oral therapeutic, which patients would be able to take outside the hospital.

Merck’s abandoning of its two experimental vaccines against Covid-19 is also a blow for France because one of them — known as V591 — was developed initially by the Institut Pasteur, the country’s top biomedical research institution. The vaccine delivered a weakened form of the Sars-Cov-2 virus that causes Covid-19, using a measles vaccine as a delivery mechanism. Scientists had hoped this would make it easier and cheaper to manufacture given that many facilities already exist to make measles vaccines.

The failure of the Pasteur vaccine also means that France remains without its own domestic producer, which has prompted some politicians and public health experts to lament the weakness of the country’s pharmaceutical sector and look with envy at the UK, Germany and the US.

Sanofi, the country’s leading pharma company and one of the biggest makers of vaccines globally, was hit with a significant setback in December when its experimental Covid-19 vaccine, being developed in partnership with GlaxoSmithKline, failed in phase 2 trials because of a dosing error, forcing it to repeat the study.

The delay means Sanofi is unlikely to be able to bring a vaccine to market until the end of this year at the earliest. It is now studying whether it can act as a contract manufacturer for rival producers.

Geoffrey Porges, an analyst at SVB Leerink said it was not “encouraging” that two of the four largest vaccine companies, GSK and Merck, were “effectively out of the Covid race”. “This news makes the results from Johnson & Johnson and Novavax even more important,” he added.

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[denel]

Must watch footage.

New videos show Wuhan during earliest days of COVID outbreak

Footage obtained by Al Jazeera shows the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak and Chinese government censorship attempts.

www.aljazeera.com

 

[aziqbal]

this is a eye opener

China's Coronavirus Cover-Up

BBC One - Panorama, China's Coronavirus Cover-Up

Carrie Gracie asks whether China hid crucial information about Covid-19 from the world.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[LeGenD]

China faces biggest Covid-19 crisis since Wuhan as cases surge

After topping 1,000 for two days, the number of locally transmitted cases around the country races to more than 3,100, mostly driven by Jilin province.

www.scmp.com

Hong Kong leader vows more help for 300,000 residents stuck in home quarantine

Government to distribute up to 60,000 anti-epidemic kits each day and increase number of dedicated hotlines to 200 by end of month.

www.scmp.com

 

[JSCh]

I guess this is expected and inevitable. Hopefully after the central gov't takeover, the situation would improve soon. Current figure seem to suggest no. is nearing peak and plateauing.

#UPDATE Shanghai government reports first Covid deaths since start of its weeks-long lockdown of the city of 25 million. "The three people deteriorated into severe cases after going into hospital and died after all efforts to revive them proved ineffective," city authorities say

https://twitter.com/x/status/1515857314762588160

 

[Han Patriot]

China faces biggest Covid-19 crisis since Wuhan as cases surge

After topping 1,000 for two days, the number of locally transmitted cases around the country races to more than 3,100, mostly driven by Jilin province.

www.scmp.com

Hong Kong leader vows more help for 300,000 residents stuck in home quarantine

Government to distribute up to 60,000 anti-epidemic kits each day and increase number of dedicated hotlines to 200 by end of month.

www.scmp.com

Not trying to debate whether zero covid is a good or bad policy. But this are the facts today, two cities were quarantined in China, Jilin pop 4.5mil and Shanghai 25mil pop. China has a pop of 1.4 billion, 2% OF CHINA IS QUARANTINED. The rest 98% of the country is OPEN. Jilin last week declared zero covid and controlled the virus within 30 days, Shanghai is at day 18.

I guess this is expected and inevitable. Hopefully after the central gov't takeover, the situation would improve soon. Current figure seem to suggest no. is nearing peak and plateauing.

#UPDATE Shanghai government reports first Covid deaths since start of its weeks-long lockdown of the city of 25 million. "The three people deteriorated into severe cases after going into hospital and died after all efforts to revive them proved ineffective," city authorities say

https://twitter.com/x/status/1515857314762588160

Jilin is already zero covid. Only Shanghai left, the rest are partial control cities.

 

[JSCh]

The Chinese mainland reported 3, 297 locally transmitted confirmed #COVID-19 cases on Monday, 3, 084 of them were in #Shanghai. The city also discovered 17,332 local asymptomatic infection, and two imported asymptomatic patients on Monday.

Seven elderly #COVID-19 patients in #Shanghai died of severe underlying diseases yesterday. The patients' conditions, one at the age of 60 and six between the ages of 75 and 101, worsened after being sent to hospitals. The direct causes of death were their underlying diseases.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1516224025705385984

 

[JSCh]

Dynamic zero-COVID strategy kept China’s mortality rate lowest worldwide, and the three tragic deaths reported in Shanghai are reminder why such policies should be maintained, rather than eased at the current stage: epidemiologists

https://twitter.com/x/status/1516066796146626560

 

[JSCh]

Mainland #China reports 2,753 local confirmed cases and 17,066 asymptomatic cases on April 19.
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#Shanghai reports 2,494 + 16,407 cases and 7 death cases.
#Jilin province reports 133 + 262 cases, #Guangzhou reports 14 + 6 cases.
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Source: NHC

Shanghai says the Covid-19 community spread is effectively curbed, and the numbers continue their downward trends recently.

Jinshan district and Chongming district have achieved "Zero Covid"“on a societal level for the first time since the latest outbreak. #China #Shanghai

https://twitter.com/x/status/1516602507048284161

科技日报​

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22-4-20 10:24​

来自 微博 weibo.com​

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【#上海疫情社区扩散得到遏制#】#上海两区首日达到社会面清零目标# 今天（4月20日）上午举行的市疫情防控工作新闻发布会上，上海市卫生健康委一级巡视员吴乾渝通报：全市疫情近几天呈下降趋势。单日新增报告100例以上的街镇已连续3日降低，社区扩散得到有效遏制。浦东、闵行、松江、青浦和普陀等5区近3日疫情总体呈持续下降趋势。徐汇、杨浦、虹口、长宁、宝山和嘉定等6区疫情总体处于平台波动状态；黄浦区疫情仍在小幅上升，静安区疫情上升趋势趋缓。奉贤、金山和崇明等3区疫情持续低位，金山区和崇明区首日达到社会面清零目标。（上海发布）​

Science and Technology Daily
22-4-20 10:24 from Weibo

[#Shanghai epidemic community spread has been curbed#]

#Shanghai two districts reached the goal of social clearance on the first day#

At the press conference on the city's epidemic prevention and control work held this morning (April 20), Wu Ganyu, a first-level inspector of the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, reported that the city's epidemic situation has shown a downward trend in recent days. Streets and towns reporting more than 100 new cases in a single day have dropped for 3 consecutive days, and community spread has been effectively curbed. In the past 3 days, the epidemic situation in Pudong, Minhang, Songjiang, Qingpu and Putuo has shown a continuous downward trend. The epidemic situation in 6 districts including Xuhui, Yangpu, Hongkou, Changning, Baoshan and Jiading is generally in a state of platform fluctuation; the epidemic situation in Huangpu District is still rising slightly, and the upward trend of epidemic situation in Jing'an District is slowing down. The epidemic situation in Fengxian, Jinshan and Chongming continued to be low, and Jinshan District and Chongming District reached the goal of social zero on the first day. (Shanghai City Announcement)