Coronavirus: World reacts as infections and deaths spike

China’s Premier Li had a call with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Saturday afternoon, asking the EU to facilitate China’s urgent procurement of medical supplies from its member states through commercial channels, according to a statement on the State Council’s website.

Wang Guangfa, a respiratory expert at Peking University First Hospital in Beijing who was infected by the virus after visiting Wuhan to inspect coronavirus patients, told local media yesterday he had only limited information when he was in the city in late December. Authorities in the south-central province of Quang Ngai ordered industrial parks to place about 300 Chinese workers under a 14-day quarantine and test them for the virus, VnExpress news website reported.Hong Kong’s government has found 49 people from Hubei after searching about 500 hotels, and will send them to quarantine centres or help them leave the city, according to Sophia Chan, Hong Kong’s secretary for food and health.

It has instituted “strict health measures” and is working with the department of health and the National Institute of Communicable Diseases to monitor the outbreak, said spokesperson Molatwane Likhethe. A separate list of vessels calling from affected areas are being recorded, and during the warning period, all South African citizens – including marine pilots – are banned from consuming foods and liquids on board vessels from high-risk areas.

“Additionally, Transnet port health employees have been sensitised to government’s national response plan to diagnose infected persons and refer them to designated sites or hospitals.” –The true number of people infected with the deadly Wuhan coronavirus is more than 75 000, according to a scientific model which claims the official number for those infected is far too low.

The academics used the international figures to reverse-engineer a total for the number of cases among greater Wuhan’s population of around 19 million.According to CNN, the official total on January 25 for the whole of Hubei province, which includes greater Wuhan, was 761, barely 1% of the total projected by the scientists.

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