Coronavirus: Hong Kong gang steals hundreds of toilet rolls - BBC News

There were 2,000 new cases of

coronavirus

in China this Monday and, although authorities say the infection rate is falling, the World Health Organization says we can't know if it has peaked, the data also appears to show a decline in new cases, this trend should be interpreted with great caution trends may change as new populations are affected it is too early to say whether this reported decline will continue all scenarios are still on the table this is a live map of the Johns Hopkins University shows cases around the world and now we know There are more than seventy thousand cases in mainland China alone and more than 1,700 people have lost their lives, the majority of those deaths occur in the Hubei province of China.

Here are some photos of a hospital shown on Chinese state television. This is a new storm. hospital in Wuhan which is the capital of Huub a, that gives you one impression, this video will give you another, it is not verified but it comes from Chinese social media and apparently it shows us another hospital in Wuhan and you can feel the pressure it exerts the staff and facilities. "This is also interesting, there are huge restrictions on people in Hubei. Sixty million people have been ordered to stay at home, only one person per household is allowed to go out every three days to get food and if you go to get food before".

When they give it to you, you have to check your body temperature to see if you have the virus and then I also wanted to show you this because a lot of people are stuck in their doors and have to think of new ways to exercise. This is a physical exercise. instructor who has now started teaching her classes online so that all the people who normally participate can still do so now the Chinese authorities say they are considering postponing the annual session of Parliament that begins on March 5 and while they make that decision I have already been receiving to a delegation from the World Health Organization, here is one who is their spokesperson, so we are at the stage where we need to analyze what happened in China and consider all the evidence, as you know, there is a mission at the moment , we are not.

By giving a lot of information about it, we are letting scientists continue their work with their counterparts, but the idea is to have a really full, free and frank exchange, see what has worked, see what doesn't work and what can be does differently and also what should apply to the rest of the world now in Hong Kong there are 58 confirmed cases, we know there are shortages of hand sanitizer, masks and

toilet

paper, all because people are hoarding. I never see this scene outside a supermarket In the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong, some men robbed a deliveryman with our knives of

hundreds

of

rolls

of

toilet

paper.

BBC journalist Martin Yip was there. I just walked in and the shelf where 1,000 to 2,000

rolls

of toilet paper would be stored is still empty, although according to my family and labor they have a few rolls of toilet paper coming back today, eh, luckily the other thing I was panic buying ago just a week in, Rhys is now back on shelves and reasonably available here, so I've been big

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here, let's bring in Professor Paul. Hunter from Norwich Medical School, who lives with us, Professor Hunter, thank you very much for his time and there are so many elements to this story.

Now help us step back a little and judge where we have gotten to with this crisis. Well, I think it's very true, the number of cases in China seems to be decreasing. There's been a bit of uncertainty about it because the way the Chinese had to change the way they reported to include clinical cases and I suspect it was because they were falling a bit short. I'm continuing with test builds, but I don't know for sure, so yeah, it looks good from who's province's point of view, the problem is what's happening in other parts of the world right now, the rest China's cases are also decreasing day by day globally, there are still between 5 and 20 25 cases per day internationally if you exclude the Diamond Princess cases, their big concern is that, in reality, just when we are starting to control the cases of blue hands, We could start another approach and stop.

I am starting to see uncontrolled human-to-human transmission in other places and if that happens it could be the precursor to a global pandemic that would involve many cases around the world, but so far that is not inevitable that things will look reasonably well at the moment, but we should not be overconfident and are you satisfied that all realistic measures that can be taken are being taken to prevent a pandemic arising? It's hard to see what else the Chinese could do. do at this time I suspect that they have implemented control measures that would be less difficult, if not impossible, to implement in most Western countries and I for one don't really know what else they could do to prevent the spread of this infection and To be clear, any hope of a vaccine or anything that can help in the long term will take a long time to come.

I've heard different estimates on this, but the earliest will probably be at the end of this article. year maybe early next year now it is plausible that his own disease will go away over the summer like FAR's did, but I suspect not and I suspect if anything it will reappear in the ear once in the winter at the end of this year and if that's the case, let's hope it won't be long before we have a vaccine and enough vaccines available to protect our most vulnerable people, the elderly and healthcare workers. This Crusader, the Diamond Princess, has the largest cluster of

coronavirus

cases outside of China.

She is docked. In Yokohama, Japan, ninety-nine more cases have been confirmed on board today, bringing the total to more than 400, and there were more than three and a half thousand people on board, but some have left. Here you can see some of the 300 Americans who have flown. at home overnight 14 tested positive despite having tested negative a few days earlier, but not all Americans have chosen to leave. Here's one, even assuming that some of the infections were acquired during quarantine, we don't know how they were acquired, but it's certainly possible that they were. acquired by people who don't really follow the rules of the quarantine example.

Well, we don't have access to the decks to see how people behave during their open deck time. We have access to our balcony and throughout the quarantine period we have seen people on their balconies talking to each other feet away separated by the barrier between the balconies, but without a real sense that they should stay away from the person on the other side of barrier, it seems reasonable to say that this quarantine system on board the cruise ship has not been successful. The process began in Yokohama on February 3 but that was after a passenger who disembarked in Hong Kong tested positive on February 5 and the crisis was developing elsewhere Hong Kong had imposed a quarantine on all visitors from mainland China and on board the ship at least 10 people had tested positive just two days later the Christ escalated further the United Kingdom was evacuating its citizens from Wuhan On board the ship, more than 60 people had tested positive until today, that number is 454 and we know of them, at least 27 are from a Filipino contingent on board that works on the ship.

This report comes from a

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paper in Manila. Well, here's more from that American passenger we heard about a moment ago. We have spent 14 days inside the cabin itself or occasionally on the balcony and the process that was quickly established after the institution of quarantine was that the crew brings meals three times a day, we can choose the medium for lunch and dinner and they left them, we gave them to them. for us at the gate again, as I said, wearing gloves, aprons and plastic masks and with hand sanitizer in their possession, well, there is an interesting article from the New York Times headline, they escaped from an effective ship, but the flight to house was not Haven talking about the risks in moving all these people back to the US and in it the New York Times quotes a doctor who says that the quarantine on the ship ended up being an unprecedented failure.

We must learn from this lesson that a quarantine on a ship is impossible and we must not repeat this in the future, but let us be clear that that approach still continues at this time. Rupali Field Hayes is right next to you. The quarantine aboard the Diamond Princess is supposed to end on Wednesday and passengers have been told that if they test negative then they would be allowed to return home, but with 99 new viral cases confirmed today, the overwhelming suspicion is that the quarantine is not working and because of that the journey home for those left on board now seems much more complicated.

Australia now says it will send a flight to evacuate its citizens, but when I spoke to one of them at our tan, she was not thrilled to discover the idea of ​​being put on a plane with unknown people who have not yet been tested and they potentially contract the infection there and then. and having already completed two weeks of rest, almost two weeks of quarantine is not ideal, Japan meanwhile is beginning to feel the effects of the spread of the virus, next weekend is the celebration of the Emperor's birthday, which normally attracts large crowds of supporters, today the entire event was canceled without notice