- Death toll rises: The number of deaths from the novel coronavirus has risen to more than 2,600 worldwide as the outbreak continues its spread in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
- Conflicting reports in Iran: The country's health ministry said there were 12 deaths as of Monday -- but a lawmaker in the city of Qom put the death toll at 50.
- Northern Italy restrictions: 5 people have died in Italy -- the site of Europe's biggest outbreak -- and restrictions have been imposed on some municipalities.
- Spike in South Korea: South Korea announced 231 new cases Monday, with the nationwide total surging past 830. More than half of those are associated with a branch of a religious group.
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Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press Published Sunday, February 23, 2020 5:58PM EST Last Updated Sunday, February 23, 2020 9:30PM EST TORONTO - A woman who arrived in Toronto from China last week has a presumptive case of the novel coronavirus, health officials said Sunday, days after announcing the last of three people previously diagnosed in Ontario had been cleared of the illness. The woman went to North York General Hospital with an intermittent cough after her arrival on Friday, the Health Ministry said in a statement, adding she was tested for the virus, known as COVID-19, before being discharged into self-isolation. The test came back positive on Sunday, the ministry said, and a further test will be done by the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg for official confirmation of the diagnosis. Dr. David Williams, chief medical health officer of Ontario, said people should not be concerned about contracting the coronavirus.
“Because of all the proper protocols and procedures that are in place to contain this virus and exposure to others was limited, I want to assure the public that the risk to Ontarians remains low,” he said. The ministry said the woman wore a mask throughout her return to Toronto and had limited exposure to others after landing. Health officials will contact and monitor passengers who were sitting close to the woman on the plane back to Canada, the statement says. From CNN’s Junko Ogura in Tokyo and Mitch McCluskey in Atlanta. A Japanese man in his 80s, who was previously on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship, has died from pneumonia, Japan’s health ministry confirmed on Sunday, bringing the total number of deaths of people who boarded the Diamond Princess to three.
The ministry did not disclose whether the man had tested positive for the novel coronavirus, citing a lack of consent from his family. The man had pre-existing medical conditions, the ministry said. CNN Health has reported that for those with a weakened immune system, the elderly and the very young, there's a chance the virus could cause a lower, and much more serious, respiratory tract illness like a pneumonia or bronchitis. Read more...
From CNN's Sophie Jeong Samsung Electronics said on Saturday that one coronavirus case had been confirmed at its smartphone factory complex in the South Korean city of Gumi.
The plant has been shut down until Monday morning, while the floor where the infected employee worked will be closed until February 25, Samsung said in a statement. "On Feb. 22, an employee working at Samsung Electronics' Gumi Complex was tested positive for novel coronavirus (COVID-19),” Samsung said. “The company plans to implement all necessary measures for disinfection and containment promptly." The company has also identified colleagues who came in contact with the infected employee, and has taken measures to place them in isolation and get them tested. Read more... CNN February 22, 2020 Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, seen here speaking on January 28 in Beijing, reiterated on Saturday that the window of opportunity to contain the virus is narrowing. Naohiko Hatta/Pool/Getty Images The increase in confirmed cases beyond China has become a cause for concern, the World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Saturday.
"Although the total number of cases outside China remains relatively small, we are concerned about the number of cases with no clear epidemiological link, such as travel history to China or contact with a confirmed case," he said. The increase in cases in Iran, South Korea and Italy "is also a matter of concern and how the virus is now spreading to other parts of the world," he added. The director general reiterated that while there is still a chance to contain the virus, "the window of opportunity is narrowing." "Our biggest concern continues to be the potential for (the virus) to spread in countries with weaker health systems." While 80% of patients exhibiting mild symptoms will recover, 20% of patients with "severe or critical disease, ranging from shortness of breath to septic shock and multi-organ failure," require "respiratory support machines that are, as you know, in short supply in many African countries," he added. The WHO has supplied laboratory test kits and 30,000 sets of protective equipment to a number of priority countries in Africa, many of which have "direct links to China or their high volume of travel with China." "We’ve also published a Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan, with a call for $675 million to support countries, especially those which are most vulnerable," he said. There are over 77,700 cases globally, and at least 17 deaths outside mainland China. Read more...
Read more... From CNN's Fred Pleitgen in Tehran There have been two more coronavirus deaths in Iran, and 13 new cases of the virus, according to the country's health ministry. According to the latest laboratory reports 13 more contractions of coronavirus have been confirmed, including 7 in Qom, 4 in Tehran, and two in Gilan. Unfortunately, out of these cases two have lost their lives," health ministry spokesman Kianoosh Jahanpour tweeted Friday. "Most of the cases are residents of Qom or have traveled to Qom in recent days and weeks,” Jahanpour added. Confirmed cases in Iran: There are now 18 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Iran, with four deaths. Elections looming: These cases come as the country heads to the polls in parliamentary elections Friday. Some voters are wearing protective masks and several polling stations are not requiring fingerprinting in an effort to prevent the spread of the deadly virus. Voters with face masks fill out their ballots for the parliamentary elections at a polling station in Tehran, Iran, on Friday. Credit: Vahid Salemi/AP
From CNN's Steven Jiang and Shanshan Wang in Beijing A worker cleans the floor between beds at a temporary hospital in Wuhan on February 12. Credit: Chine Nouvelle/SIPA/Shutterstock The government of Hubei province, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak, on Friday banned the practice of reducing the number of already confirmed cases.
It also mandated that all previously counted cases stand as part of the total confirmed tally. Tu Yuanchao, deputy director of Hubei Health Committee, said at a press conference that all the cases that were confirmed but then retroactively dismissed because they no longer fitted reporting requirements would be added back to the total tally. On Thursday -- based on China's National Health Commission’s narrowed criteria for confirmed tally to only include laboratory-confirmed cases -- Hubei authorities said they'd no longer count so-called “clinically diagnosed patients,” who are people exhibiting symptoms without testing positive for the virus. This caused Hubei’s total confirmed cases to drop by 279 on Thursday alone. These adjustments in numbers have attracted huge public attention, caused some doubts about the data," Tu said during the press conference. "As a result, Ying Yong, secretary of the provincial Party committee, attached great importance to this issue. He explicitly ordered that no subtraction be allowed for already-confirmed cases and all subtractions be added back." Read more...
From CNN's Sandi Sidhu in Tokyo The Diamond Princess cruise ship at Daikoku Pier on February 20, in Yokohama, Japan. Takashi Aoyama/Getty Images Diamond Princess cruise ship captain Stefano Ravera has just made an announcement onboard the cruise liner, reporting that two passengers have died of the novel coronavirus, as heard on a video recording supplied to CNN by a passenger.
Ravera read out a Princess Cruises statement: "Our hearts go out to the families and friends and all others who are impacted by these losses. All of us at Princess Cruises, as well as the crew of the Diamond Princess, offer our sincere condolences." The two passengers who died were in their 80s and had been in hospital in Japan, but no further information is known about them at this stage. There are 624 confirmed cases of the virus linked to the stricken ship, docked in Yokohama, Japan. Passengers who tested negative are still disembarking from the ship today.
Laura Osman and Hina Alam, The Canadian Press Published Wednesday, February 19, 2020 7:45AM EST Last Updated Wednesday, February 19, 2020 8:02PM EST Canadians who have spent weeks on a coronavirus-stricken cruise ship in Japan will board a government-chartered plane to take them home Thursday evening, the foreign affairs minister says. Thousands of passengers who'd been taking a cruise on the Diamond Princess have been stuck aboard the ship, docked in Yokohama while the illness dubbed COVID-19 has sickened hundreds. Japanese authorities will test Canadian passengers for the virus before allowing them to leave the ship, where they'll be taken by bus to the airport to board the chartered plane, Francois-Philippe Champagne said Wednesday. Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne and Minister of Health Patty Hajdu speak with the media on Wednesday, February 19, 2020, in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld Anyone who wants to come home and has been cleared to fly will be checked out again at Canadian Forces Base Trenton, in Ontario, before being moved on to quarantine at a hotel and conference centre in Cornwall, Ont., a few hundred kilometres east.
But those passengers who have tested positive for COVID-19 will remain in Japanese health facilities, Champagne said. Forty-seven of about 250 Canadian passengers had been struck by the bug at last count, according to Canadian authorities. “The best approach to dealing with Canadians who have been infected with the coronavirus in Japan is for them to be treated locally,” Champagne said in Ottawa after question period Wednesday. Health Minister Patty Hajdu added that not only would transporting sick patients home to Canada pose a risk to others on the same plane, a long flight without the necessary health care on board could cause an infected person's condition to deteriorate. COVID-19 is thought to have an incubation period of about two weeks, and the evacuees will wait out that period in quarantine once they arrive home to make sure they don't get sick and spread the illness in Canada. But if patients have tested negative for the virus, have had no contact with infected patients and show no symptoms, Canada's chief medical officer has the discretion to release passengers from quarantine early, Hajdu said. The much-criticized quarantine of the cruise ship was to end later Wednesday. The Diamond Princess's 542 virus cases are the most in any place outside of China, and medical experts have called its quarantine a failure. Canadian officials were waiting on final authorization from those in Japan before the plane ferrying people home is able to take off, according to Champagne, who added that the government wanted to make sure every Canadian on board the ship had been contacted and was fully aware of the options. He said the plane landed in Japan after some unforeseen technical issues prior to takeoff Tuesday. The Canadian evacuation had previously been scheduled for earlier in the week. One healthy Canadian passenger said she's eager to go home and the departure date's being moved is “discouraging.” “We'd like to hear what the explanation might be instead of being left in the dark once again,” said Trudy Clement of Callander, Ont. Lolita Wisener of Red Deer, Alta., who is also looking forward to coming home, said she was not happy. “The smiles are getting a little bit more brittle now, you know,” she said via Skype. The “hope” they had when it was announced last Saturday that the government would take Canadians from the Diamond Princess is now fading, she said. “It's a good thing we're not drowning, eh?” Wisener said. “I'm starting to feel bad for me.” Evacuees from the centre of the coronavirus outbreak have spent nearly two weeks at CFB Trenton under quarantine are preparing to return home. They were placed in isolation after they returned to Canada from Wuhan, China. The government is now working to help them make their final travel plans once they are released from quarantine. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 19, 2020. - With files from Jordan Press and The Associated Press Read more... The Canadian Press Published Wednesday, February 19, 2020 7:45AM EST Last Updated Wednesday, February 19, 2020 8:18AM EST Global Affairs says the departure date for a plane that will carry Canadians home from a coronavirus-stricken cruise ship in Japan is yet to be confirmed. Spokeswoman Barbara Harvey says the departure will be settled once final arrangements are made with the Japanese government and the cruise ship company. A news release from the company operating the Diamond Princess cruise ship says the Canadian flight has been "shifted" to early Friday morning. Thousands of passengers who'd been taking a cruise on the Diamond Princess have been stuck aboard the ship docked in Yokohama, near Tokyo, while the illness dubbed COVID-19 has sickened hundreds.
Forty-three of about 250 Canadian passengers had been struck by the bug at last count, according to Canadian authorities. Passengers aboard the quarantined cruise ship were told earlier that a flight set to bring them home was "expected" to fly out of a Tokyo airport on Thursday. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 19, 2020. READ MORE... From CNN’s Yoko Wakatsuki and Junko Ogura in Tokyo A man in protective gear speaks on a phone near the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship in Yokohama, Japan on \Wednesday. Credit: Charly Triballeau/AFP/Getty Images More people from the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship tested positive for the novel coronavirus Wednesday, according to the Japanese Health Ministry.
The ministry said 79 new cases were confirmed, adding that 68 of the people were said to be asymptomatic. The cases were taken from 607 samples on the cruise ship that has been docked in the Japanese port of Yokohama for two weeks. In Japan, a total of 692 novel coronavirus cases have been confirmed, with 624 from the Diamond Princess and 68 outside the ship. Roughly 800 passengers disembarked the vessel on Wednesday, Japanese health ministry officials told CNN. The official did not give the exact number. Before the disembarkation, there were about 3,100 passengers and crew on board on Wednesday morning. Among the remaining passengers are citizens of Canada, Australia, Italy and other nationalities who are due to fly back on chartered flights. More than 300 Americans were evacuated over the weekend and are now in quarantine at two US bases. Written by journalist Akanksha Sharma in Hong Kong. Read more...
By James Griffiths, CNN Updated 3:32 AM ET, Tue February 18, 2020 Hong Kong (CNN)-- The death toll from the novel coronavirus has reached 1,873, as almost half of China's 1.3 billion-strong population remain subject to varying forms of travel restrictions and other quarantine measures. On Tuesday, Liu Zhiming, director of the Wuchang hospital in Wuhan, the city at the center of the outbreak, himself died of the virus, according to a statement released by local government authorities. Liu was a neurosurgeon and is the first hospital director to die as a result of the coronavirus epidemic. His death could renew criticism that the government has not done enough to protect frontline medical workers, many of whom are overworked and overstretched. Also on Tuesday, state media reported that doctors and nurses who die while trying to contain the outbreak will officially be designated as "martyrs." All but five deaths from the virus have occurred inside mainland China, where an additional 98 fatal cases of Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, were reported Tuesday morning. The number of confirmed cases in China increased by 1,886, bringing the global total to over 73,325. The vast majority of those cases have been in China, but concern has been growing in the past week over much smaller but growing outbreaks in Singapore, Japan and Hong Kong. According to China's National Health Commission, since the outbreak began in December, more than 12,500 patients have recovered and been discharged from hospital. Outside of Hubei, the province of which Wuhan is capital, the number of new cases has dropped for 14 consecutive days. Despite this apparent good news, stringent and often draconian measures are being ramped up in much of the country. This comes as authorities make an effort to return to something like normality in many major cities and commercial hubs, with the long break forced by the outbreak taking its toll on the country's economy. On Monday, a committee headed by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said that a "greater outbreak of the epidemic has been avoided through strengthened prevention and control measures," adding that "a positive trend has emerged nationwide in curbing the epidemic." Photos: The novel coronavirus outbreak
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Americans evacuated to US base will stay in same facility as previous coronavirus evacuees2/17/2020 From CNN's Alta Spells This photo provided by the U.S. Air Force shows the Westwind Inn lodging facility at Travis Air Force Base, in California on February 1. Credit: Handout/Nicholas Pilch/U.S. Air Force/AP Asymptomatic passengers arriving at Travis Air Force Base (AFB) from the Diamond Princess cruise ship will be housed in in the same facility as the previous evacuees from Wuhan -- the Chinese city at the center of the coronavirus outbreak -- according to a Travis AFB spokesperson.
More than 300 people were removed from the ship, which is docked off the Japanese port city of Yokohama, Sunday night and flown to military bases in the United States. The Westwind Inn on Travis AFB is the facility where all the evacuees are being held. The Travis spokesperson told CNN the newest group of evacuees arriving from Japan will be kept in a separate area of the lodge from those that have already been going through their quarantine. Read more... By Joshua Berlinger, Jessie Yeung, Adam Renton and Amy Woodyatt, CNN Updated 6:19 a.m. ET, February 17, 2020
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