I’ve just picked up a cold. Headache and a cough - staying at home today. 99% it’s not COVID-19 but can’t help but wonder. No fever though…
Nigeria confirms their first COVID-19 infection .
The health commissioner for Lagos, Africa’s largest city with more than 20 million people, said an Italian citizen who entered Nigeria on Tuesday from Milan on a business trip fell ill the next day. Commissioner Akin Abayomi said the man was clinically stable with no serious symptoms.
Abayomi said officials were working to identify all of the man’s contacts in Nigeria. The Italian had traveled on Turkish Airlines to Istanbul and then to Lagos, according to health authorities. Lagos state early this month advised people arriving from virus-affected areas to observe 14 days of self-quarantine.
“I have seen him this morning, he is in high spirits,” said Dr. Bowale Abimbola, medical director of the hospital where the 44-year-old Italian was brought with body aches and fever. “He is doing well and we expect that he will continue to do well.”
Iran has real problems :
The outbreak of the new virus in Iran has been dramatic — the head of Iran’s task force to stop the illness, known as COVID-19, was seen coughing, sweating and wheezing across televised interviews before acknowledging he was infected. Then, days later, a visibly pale official sat only meters (feet) away from President Hassan Rouhani and other top leaders before she too reportedly came down with the virus.
On Friday, Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour again reported a huge spike in cases, saying there were now 388 confirmed coronavirus cases in Iran and 34 deaths. In brief remarks from Tehran, he cautioned the number of cases would likely further spike as Iran now has 15 laboratories testing samples.
In Tehran and other cities, authorities canceled Friday prayer services to limit crowds. In the capital, Radio Tehran that typically carries the prayer played only traditional Iranian music. Universities are to remain closed another week. Schools will be closed for at least three days, Namaki said.
It is quite possible that ALL of the leadership of Iran is infected and that they passed that infection on for days unknowingly.
Mexico confirms first 2 cases of COVID-19 .
One in Mexico City and one up north in the state of Sinaloa.
Our favorite graph (said in the same sense as our favorite president), has begun the upward turn we feared.
I’m talking about the yellow line in the graph on the lower right hand side of my link. I couldn’t link to just the graph.
Abayomi said officials were working to identify all of the man’s contacts in Nigeria. The Italian had traveled on Turkish Airlines to Istanbul and then to Lagos, according to health authorities. Lagos state early this month advised people arriving from virus-affected areas to observe 14 days of self-quarantine.
So… we can expect a report of cases in Istanbul sometime during the next two weeks?..
Agency: 2nd US case of person who got virus from community :
Health officials have confirmed the second case of novel coronavirus in the United States believed to have been transmitted to a person who didn’t travel internationally or come in close contact with anyone who had it.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday that officials are “aware of a second possible instance of community spread of COVID-19 in California.” The CDC said in a statement that the patient has tested positive for the virus and is considered a presumptive positive case.
Health officials in San Jose said the patient was an older adult woman with chronic health conditions who does not have a travel history or any known contact with a traveler or infected person. It comes a day after state officials said a woman hospitalized at UC Davis Health Center in Sacramento had contracted the illness after no known contact.
“This new case indicates that there is evidence of community transmission, but the extent is still not clear,” said Dr. Sara Cody, Health Officer for Santa Clara County and Director of the County of Santa Clara Public Health Department.
85,181 confirmed infections
Oregon now has an unexplained case . The person works at a school in the Portland area and was showing symptoms for over a week before they were diagnosed. So it’s probably already widespread here.
dtilque
February 29, 2020, 5:05am
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Not surprised at all about the Oregon case. This is going to be all over the country in a couple-three weeks. I just hope we can survive the panic.
Biotop
February 29, 2020, 6:55am
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I live in Virginia where no cases have occurred. I work in a grocery store. All our hand sanitizer has been wiped out. Shelves emptied. Medical masks and gloves are gone too.
Am I wrong to worry about how this panic is going to unfold? It really worries me more than the virus.
Add Washington state to the list.
Health officials in California, Oregon and Washington state worried about the novel coronavirus spreading through West Coast communities after confirming three patients were infected by unknown means.
The patients — an older Northern California woman with chronic health conditions, a high school student in Everett, Washington and an employee at a Portland, Oregon-area school — hadn’t recently traveled overseas or had any known close contact with a traveler or an infected person, authorities said.
Well, I’m here in the north of Italy. My city is not under quarantine, but they closed schools, universities and public gatherings. Basically, the first few days there was a lot of panicking, empty supermarkets, black market masks at hundreds of euros, people not daring to get out of their houses etc. After about a week people are seeing that the apocalypse isn’t forthcoming, so some are now going too far in the opposite direction saying “oh, it was all made up by the media”. But mostly, people are trying to get back to resuming their normal activities.
dtilque
February 29, 2020, 4:36pm
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It’s good that some people are getting their panicking in early. Ya know, avoiding the last minute rush.
C3
February 29, 2020, 4:38pm
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Biotop:
I live in Virginia where no cases have occurred. I work in a grocery store. All our hand sanitizer has been wiped out. Shelves emptied. Medical masks and gloves are gone too.
Am I wrong to worry about how this panic is going to unfold? It really worries me more than the virus.
Come on down to NC. I was just in Costco (in Winston Salem) this morning and it was fully stocked with a huge display of latex gloves. Didn’t see any masks but I wasn’t looking for them. I bought a few canned goods while I was there. I did notice my regular grocery store was out of large size hand sanitizer though.
Biotop
February 29, 2020, 4:47pm
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My brother lives in Winston (Clemmons) so I am glad to know he will be able to get supplies before the End Times.
Ludovic
February 29, 2020, 5:27pm
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Every time I go shopping I’m stocking up a tiny bit with non-perishables in case I have to shelter in place or quarantine myself, but I’m not freaking out about it and am only getting stuff I’d use anyway.
Here’s some news: A dog in Hong Kong tests positive for the coronavirus, WHO officials confirm .
A dog in Hong Kong has tested positive for the COVID-19 virus that’s killed at least 2,859 humans across the world over the last two months, World Health Organization officials said Friday.
Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, the technical lead of WHO’s emergencies program, said the canine tested “weakly positive,” meaning low levels of the virus were found.
Hong Kong scientists aren’t sure if the dog is actually infected or if it picked up the virus from a contaminated surface, she said.
The dog reportedly belongs to a 60-year-old woman who developed symptoms on Feb. 12 and later tested positive, according to The Wall Street Journal. Hong Kong’s Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department said the dog doesn’t have any symptoms. Swabs of its nasal and oral cavities tested “weak positive,” it said in a statement Friday. The dog is under quarantine at a facility at a port in Hong Kong and will be returned to the owner once it tests negative for the virus, according to the agency.
Also, Trump will address the nation in about 23 minutes regarding COVID-19.
First death from coronavirus in the United States confirmed in Washington state
(CNN) - A patient infected with the novel coronavirus in Washington state has died, a state health official said Saturday, marking the first death due to the virus in the United States.
Further details about the patient in King County were not immediately available. A news conference is scheduled for 1 p.m. local time (4 p.m. ET), Jamie Nixon of the state Health Department said.
They’re telling us to stock up on prescriptions. In what pharmacy can you just order more prescriptions before you’re due for refills?
So from what I’m seeing here, there was panic, but people calmed down fairly quickly.