China's new imported coronavirus cases at record; no domestic transfers for second day

 

FILE PHOTO: March 17, 2020 picture of staff in protective suits accompanying a passenger outside a centralized facility for screening and registration near the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing as the country tries to contain imported cases of the coronavirus. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

 

BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's imported coronavirus cases have risen to a record 228, data showed on Friday, as infected travellers spread to ever more provinces, adding pressure on authorities to toughen entry rules and health protocols.

 

For a second day in a row, China found no domestically transmitted cases of the virus that emerged in its central province of Hubei late last year, according to new daily figures registered on Thursday.

 

Fears of a second wave of infections are growing just as China brings its epidemic under control, with the spread of the virus in Europe and North America spurring a rush homewards by Chinese expatriates, many of them students.

 

"The number of imported cases in China has further increased, and so the pressure to be on guard has also increased," Wang Bin, an official of the National Health Commission, told a news conference in Beijing on Friday.

 

Mainland China had 39 new imported infections on Thursday, the commission said. Fourteen of these were in the southern province of Guangdong, eight in the commercial hub of Shanghai and six in the capital, Beijing, it said in a statement.

 

The main entrypoints for infected travellers have been key transport hubs such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong, including the city of Shenzhen, near Hong Kong.

 

A smattering of imported cases were also reported in the city of Tianjin and the provinces of Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Shandong and Gansu in the north, as well as in the provinces of Zhejiang, Fujian, Sichuan, and the region of Guangxi further south, taking China's total imported infections to 228.

 

The commission did not say where the cases were believed to have originated, but provincial authorities said some of the travellers had been in Britain, Spain and the United States.

 

"Everyone is being very vigilant about those coming back from abroad. We must absolutely not let our guard down," Cao, a Beijing resident who gave only his surname, told Reuters.

 

"We cannot relax this vigilance so much that we see a rebound."

 

In Gansu, five officials were punished for picking up travellers returning from overseas without permission, including two who have tested positive, the official Xinhua news agency said.

 

As concern grows over infected arrivals from overseas, the foreign ministers of China, Japan and South Korea held a video conference on Friday to discuss cooperation to rein in the pandemic.

 

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The new imported case in Tianjin, a city of 11 million, was a 23-year-old woman studying in London who came home via Zurich, Tokyo and Beijing, Xinhua said.

 

The northeastern city of Shenyang said its first imported case was a traveller arriving from London via Seoul, who displayed no fever or respiratory tract symptoms at the airport on March 16.

 

Many outbreaks overseas were caused by travellers from China who were pre-symptomatic and so had not been screened or isolated, the Yale School of Public Health said in a study.

 

China has long recommended self-isolation by returning travellers, but authorities in some regions now enforce 14 days in quarantine in a medical facility for people returning from any of 24 badly-hit nations, to limit the risk of spread by those not yet showing symptoms.

 

For a second day, there were no new cases in the outbreak epicentre of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei, the National Health Commission said.

 

Mainland China's tally of infections stands at 80,967, with the death toll at 3,248 by Thursday, an increase of three from the previous day.

 

Globally, 245,000 people have been infected and more than 10,000 have died.

 

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It would be good news if it is true...

So China unhappy about importing a few after destroying the entire world economies 

It's a little rich that China is calling these cases imported given that these returnees will have transmitted the disease to countless individuals in  other countries prior to their return home. Will they be counting those too?

I don’t believe anything China is saying

8 minutes ago, TheFishman1 said:

I don’t believe anything China is saying

Nor do most of the folks in the world.

Payback’s a bitch, China.

17 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

So China unhappy about importing a few after destroying the entire world economies 

The world economies had their head in the sand...did not do or prepare anything. No surprise for me of this outcome.

Taiwan was prepared. Children are still going to school. 

56 minutes ago, Gervais Bilodeau said:

The world economies had their head in the sand...did not do or prepare anything. No surprise for me of this outcome.

Taiwan was prepared. Children are still going to school. 

So China are in no way to blame for creating this worldwide crisis, then, are they?

Edited March 21, 20206 yr by OJAS

4 minutes ago, OJAS said:

So China are in no way to blame for creating this worldwide crisis, then, are they?

No countries blame China except Trump’s USA. He want you to believe to divert from his failure to act adequately. 

3 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

No countries blame China except Trump’s USA. He want you to believe to divert from his failure to act adequately. 

<deleted>!! Everyone i know here in Australia blames China for covering it up when they could of acted and saved 95% of cases!!! China is to blame for trashing world economies and the thousands of deaths. Hopefully when all is over the world boycotts them and trashes the Chinese economy.

The weather in Wuhan today was sunny and warm....temp average about 24C. for the coming week.

Is there a connection between the warm weather and the dying off of the virus?

6 minutes ago, blazes said:

The weather in Wuhan today was sunny and warm....temp average about 24C. for the coming week.

Is there a connection between the warm weather and the dying off of the virus?

 

Sorry if it's confusing, Chomps.   But some experts believe that the virus will not reproduce in warm weather.  And the number of infections in Wuhan sank to zero yesterday and today.

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A troll post was removed. 

10 minutes ago, blazes said:

The weather in Wuhan today was sunny and warm....temp average about 24C. for the coming week.

Is there a connection between the warm weather and the dying off of the virus?

except that the number of cases has been rapidly declining for quite a while now.

19 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

but provincial authorities said some of the travellers had been in Britain, Spain and the United States.

hahahahha thats it  stir it  all  up

1 hour ago, muzley said:

<deleted>!! Everyone i know here in Australia blames China for covering it up when they could of acted and saved 95% of cases!!! China is to blame for trashing world economies and the thousands of deaths. Hopefully when all is over the world boycotts them and trashes the Chinese economy.

You're not alone with that theory.

4 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

No countries blame China except Trump’s USA. He want you to believe to divert from his failure to act adequately. 

We’re all a bit tired of your America bashing.  China bears full responsibility for Wuhan virus and subsequent collapse of financial markets worldwide.  Hope that didn’t hurt your feelings too much...

BTW Covid-19 is a CCP and WHO term.

They had time

 

https://www.axios.com/timeline-the-early-days-of-chinas-coronavirus-outbreak-and-cover-up-ee65211a-afb6-4641-97b8-353718a5faab.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiospm&stream=top

8 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

No countries blame China except Trump’s USA. He want you to believe to divert from his failure to act adequately. 

https://www.axios.com/timeline-the-early-days-of-chinas-coronavirus-outbreak-and-cover-up-ee65211a-afb6-4641-97b8-353718a5faab.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiospm&stream=top

9 hours ago, Gervais Bilodeau said:

The world economies had their head in the sand...did not do or prepare anything. No surprise for me of this outcome.

Taiwan was prepared. Children are still going to school. 

Taiwan was prepared because of the last virus that was exported there from China ????

On 3/21/2020 at 1:22 PM, OJAS said:

So China are in no way to blame for creating this worldwide crisis, then, are they?

Don't be so sure that the virus originated from China. There was a case of Japanese tourists that caught an unusual pneumonia while holidaying in the US.

And today, came this news:

 

Coronavirus: ‘strange pneumonia’ seen in Lombardy in November, leading Italian doctor says

 

Don't forget, the US also had some weird pneumonia cases last year, which was attributed to vaping, but having chest CT scans similar to Covid-19 sufferers.

 

 

On 3/21/2020 at 2:42 PM, blazes said:

 

Sorry if it's confusing, Chomps.   But some experts believe that the virus will not reproduce in warm weather.  And the number of infections in Wuhan sank to zero yesterday and today.

Is that so? In Perth WA we have 33 degrees and have new cases of about 27 in one day.

10 minutes ago, Selatan said:

Don't be so sure that the virus originated from China. There was a case of Japanese tourists that caught an unusual pneumonia while holidaying in the US.

And today, came this news:

 

Coronavirus: ‘strange pneumonia’ seen in Lombardy in November, leading Italian doctor says

 

Don't forget, the US also had some weird pneumonia cases last year, which was attributed to vaping, but having chest CT scans similar to Covid-19 sufferers.

 

 

Its now the 'Clobal Virus/pandemic' and at this stage does it really matter where it originated..its not going to suddenly go away because we know where it started. Each country has to focus on alleviating this quickly and forget the political bickering.

2 hours ago, thainet said:

Its now the 'Clobal Virus/pandemic' and at this stage does it really matter where it originated..its not going to suddenly go away because we know where it started. Each country has to focus on alleviating this quickly and forget the political bickering.

That should be the way. But somehow I feel that many stupid people think blaming China is the best way to deal with this pandemic. China already informed WHO on Dec 31 and the US on Jan 3 and yet Trump chose to downplay the seriousness of the outbreak by not preparing for it.

Everyone should understand that once an easily transmissible and dangerous new virus emerges, it doesn't matter where it started - it would eventually spread quickly throughout the world because of modern air travel. Want to really blame the pandemic on something? Blame air travel and international tourism then. 

Stop eating wildlife will not prevent the next pandemic. After all, we have the constant threat from mutating strains of avian influenza. Should the world stop eating chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys?

On 3/20/2020 at 7:46 AM, snoop1130 said:

For a second day in a row, China found no domestically transmitted cases of the virus

how on earth can "china" find infections in a province of 60 million people, and even en trace them on

the time and space frame?

total non sense.

another communist party propaganda.

Unless the world seriously gets angry with China and imposes severe penalties for everything that this virus that came from China - supposedly from a wet market - has done, then there is NOTHING to stop them continuing with this practice and the same happening next year.

 

50% immediate tax on ALL chinese products for 5 years to repay the world for their disease, and a total BAN on wet markets of exotic animals, You hit this nation with finance  - not words and paying them money for face masks 

42 minutes ago, SCOTT FITZGERSLD said:

how on earth can "china" find infections in a province of 60 million people, and even en trace them on

the time and space frame?

total non sense.

another communist party propaganda.

"finding infections" is the terminology chosen by the reuters editorial staff.

 

it simply means no new locally-transmitted cases were reported, noticed, indicated, confirmed..............found.........in the entire country of 1.4 billion, not just in the province of hubei.

 

they did however report, observe, screen, test, confirm.......find.....228 imported cases through airport arrival screenings.

Easy to not transmit when everyone has received a vaccination

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