"There is no reason for measures that unnecessarily interfere with intl. travel & trade. We call on all countries to implement decisions that are evidence-based & consistent. WHO stands ready to provide advice to any country that is considering which measures to take"@DrTedros
World Health Organization declares new coronavirus a public health emergency of international concern
Virgin Atlantic has suspended its flights to Shanghai in China for two weeks from Sunday due to the coronavirus outbreak
The source of Coronavirus is unclear - WHO
Moroccan airline Royal Air Maroc (RAM) temporarily suspended its direct flights to China due to the coronavirus outbreak, state news agency MAP said
Hong Kong Dept of health confirms 2 new nCoV cases, 12 in HK now. 11th is a 37 yo woman, the daughter of a Wuhan couple tested + earlier. 12th is a 75 yo man who visited GZ in mainland earlier. Was told the man was initially in a non-isolated ward because he did not declare travel history
WHO says there are 7818 cases of Coronavirus worldwide. 170 deaths in China. WHO says first cases in Finland, India, and Philippines. CDC says they found the first person to person transmit the illness in Chicago
3 week agoThe World Health Organization's emergency committee on the novel coronavirus is meeting in Geneva today to discuss whether the outbreak centred on Wuhan, China constitutes a public health emergency of international concern. Latest discussion on what the virus should be labelled
British passengers on a plane being flown to the UK from Wuhan in China will be quarantined at a health centre on the Wirral
Cargo train connection between Russia and China will be suspended on January 31 - Russian Railways
Israel will not allow flights from China to Israel; People who return will stay for 2 weeks for quarantine at home
3 week agoAir Canada flight has just arrived in Toronto, 7 people have a fever, and all of them cannot get off the plane
3 week agoSingapore added 3 new cases, which are all female tourists from Wuhan. The total number of confirmed cases in Singapore is up to 13
3 week agoReport of triad or indigenous villagers assaulting citizens at West Rail Yuen Long Station
Delhi: Five more patients, 4 men and a woman, have been admitted at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital for suspected coronavirus case. They have been kept at isolation ward of the hospital. They had returned from China
Hong Kong Baptist University and the University of Hong Kong announced further suspension of lectures on campus until March 2
Cruise companies MSC and Costa cancel departures from Chinese ports
Ukraine stops its flights to China from February 4 due to the Coronovirus
Italian news agency @Agenzia_Ansa reports that according to the first tests, Coronavirus is NOT present on the cruise ship at Civitavecchia
Charter is coming from Spain. Will have an isolation area onboard
Head of health authority at Huanggang city, near epicentre of coronavirus outbreak in China, dismissed -statement
China coronavirus: another patient tests positive in Hong Kong (11th)
![Floating corpse of a 50 to 60 y.o. male [ wearing a black short-sleeved top+black jacket ] found ~1:38am Thurs along rocky beaches of Siu Sai Wan's Island Resort by runner. HKPoliceMilitants found no IDs on corpse+are seeking the deceased's identity. [ Credit: Oriental Daily ]](https://china.liveuamap.com/pics/2020/01/30/21952949_0.jpg)
3 week agoFloating corpse of a 50 to 60 y.o. male [ wearing a black short-sleeved top+black jacket ] found ~1:38am Thurs along rocky beaches of Siu Sai Wan's Island Resort by runner. HKPoliceMilitants found no IDs on corpse+are seeking the deceased's identity. [ Credit: Oriental Daily ]
Chief secretary Matthew Cheung said 8 mil masks will arrive in HK this weekend from mainland, and that 24 mil was on their way. #CoronavirusOutbreak
3 week agoNearly 400 medical professionals serving in medical wards of public hospitals in the HongKong West Cluster have signed a petition demanding the Govt to close the border, as they threaten to go on strike if the demand's not met. Source say more outside these wards will join tmr
Foreign secretary Dominic Raab says flight carrying British nationals from Wuhan airport in China to the UK will leave Wuhan at 5am local time tomorrow (9pm UK time tonight)
EgyptAir suspends all flights to China due to the outbreak of the Corona virus
China Communist Party 'central threat of our times': Pompeo
US warship 'sailed close to' Chinese-occupied reefs in South China Sea. Navy conducts passage near Fiery Cross Reef-a low-tide elevation (with no territorial sea entitlement) occupied by PRC in 1988, built into a military outpost
3 week agoNew #WuhanCoronavirus and evacuation - Australia recorded another new case earlier today, raising the total number of cases to 8. The patient is a Chinese woman in her 40s and she flew from Hubei province to Australia. She is in stable conditions
3 week agoAgain a minor update from the PLAN Type 002 aircraft carrier 'Shandong' (CV-17) at Dalian shipyard together with one Type 055 DDG. (Image @热武器时代的爱情 from Weibo)
3 week agoCoronavirus: To strengthen the management on products such as facemasks, Shanghai has made 9,314 inspections and investigated 10 cases including pricejacking. Talks were held with major e-commerce platforms such as Pinduoduo: Shanghai official
Russian Federation has temporarily stop issuing electronic visas to Chinese citizens starting 30th January - Ministry of Foreign Affairs
China coronavirus: Hubei residents found in Hong Kong hotels, but security chiefs say they are powerless to isolate or deport them
U.S. state department says to stage additional evacuation flights with capacity for private U.S. citizens from Wuhan, China on or about February 3, 2020
Russian Prime Minister has signed a decree to close border at Russian Far East to prevent nCov infection
3 week agoEmpty shelves in supermarkets in HongKong
[email protected] comtinues to exclude Taiwan as it prepares for an emergency committee that kicks off later today. Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has openly called for Taiwan's inclusion
One of the new patients in South Korea had contact with the 3rd case, making it the country's first known case of human-to-human transmission - Yonhap
Macau reported two new cases of suspected infection with a new coronavirus, including a medical staff.
Doctor of Weiyuan Hospital has symptoms after contacting patients, and the test results of 3 people are negative
Israel's El Al has suspended flights to Beijing, China until March 25. #CoronaVirus
First case of new coronovirus found in Kerala India
Philippines confirms the first case of nCoV
China has allocated 27.3 billion yuan (about $3.94 billion) to support the nationwide battle against the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) as of 5 p.m. Jan. 29, said the Ministry of Finance on Thursday
Yonhap: South Korea's foreign ministry says SK govt will send one chartered plane to Wuhan this evening
Chinese Ministry of Health: The small number of infections abroad shows China's success in controlling the Coronavirus
Government minister Nick Gibb has told Sky News the plane due to carry British nationals from the Chinese city of Wuhan will land at a military base in the UK
Earthquake of magnitude 4.7 - 135km NNW of Da Qaidam Hu, China
Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of CPC Thursday urged officials to follow discipline amid coronavirus battle, vowing to punish illegal acts such as mishandling rescue funds, fabricating and falsifying materials during epidemic prevention and control work
Shenzhen, which is right next to Hong Kong, is the 4th city to reach more than 100 confirmed cases of coronavirus
Shanghai has become the 3rd city outside the epicenter (Hubei province) to reach 100 cases of coronavirus. The other 2 are Wenzhou and Beijing
China's National Health Commission reports 12,167 suspected cases, an increase of 4,148 compared to yesterday. This is in addition to 7,711 confirmed cases in China
Tibet reports 1st case of coronavirus, meaning all regions of China have confirmed cases
BEEAKING: Google reportedly shuts down offices in China amid deadly coronavirus outbreak - Fox Business
2 doctors at Prince of Wales Hospital, both had contact with #WuhanCoronavirus patients, are found with respiratory infection symptoms and quarantined. One of them also has fever. Test results are expected tomorrow
3 week agoKalitta Air 747 Wuhan rescue flight descending for March ARB, California
China's National Health Commission to release updates on virus cases at 8am and 3pm daily Beijing time from Jan 29 (7pm ET the prior day and 2am ET). Daily press conference moved to 3pm.
Director-General of the World Health Organization Tedros: I have decided to reconvene the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on the new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) tomorrow to advise me on whether the current outbreak constitutes a public health emergency of international concern
Finland's first coronavirus case confirmed in Lapland
3 week agoThe two mainland visitors newly confirmed of nCoV stayed in two five stars hotel, W Hotel in West Kowloon and Four Seasons Hotel, CHP confirmed
[email protected]: "March Air Reserve Base and the @DeptofDefense stand ready to provide housing support to @HHSGov as they work to handle the arrival of nearly 200 people, including Department of State employees, dependents and US citizens evacuated from Wuhan, China."
German media: Lufthansa Airlines cancels all flights to China
Ikea says to close half its stores in China over virus outbreak
3 week agoThe epicenter of the epidemic, Hubei province, announced tonight that now is the critical period of time for Hubei to contain Coronavirus, so they decide to postpone the start date for all businesses until after February 13. All schools will also adjust their start date
China's Sichuan province reports one death from coronavirus - state media
3 week agoJapan recorded the 8th case, who is a tour guide living in Osaka. She was on the same bus as the bus driver who was infected after serving a tour group from Wuhan. She is the second case of human-to-human transmission within Japan
Two patients from Tai Po Nethersole Hospital tested positive for new coronavirus
Third coronavirus case in a day sees Hong Kong disease total rise to 11
German health ministry spokeswoman says quarantine planned for Germans returning from china on evacuation flight
3 week agoAustralia and Singapore have both recorded new cases. The patient in Australia is a 44-year-old man from Wuhan, and he is under quarantine at a hospital in Gold Coast. That raised Australia's total number of cases to 7
British citizens returning from Wuhan in China will be put in quarantine for two weeks
Kazakhstan to suspend all buses, trains, and flights with China due to coronavirus - gov't
As of 18:00 Wednesday total confirmed cases of novelcoronavirus reached 6,078 nationwide: state TV
Two HKers are confirmed infected nCoV2019 in Guangzhou. They both work in Wuhan
Indonesia's Lion Air says to suspend China flights over virus
3 week agoSingapore-based Jetstar Asia in Singapore pauses 3 mainland China routes - Hefei, Guiyang & Xuzhou and cancels Hong Kong route from March 28
Two more "preliminary" cases of nCoV found in HK - an elderly couple in their 70s. Wuhan residents who entered HK via KA853 on Jan 22. Sent to hospital on Jan 28 after spending time at hotel
Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) will fly two flights from the Chinese city of Sanya on January 30 and February 3 to evacuate its citizens due to №coronavirus
