Coronavirus: Largest study suggests elderly and sick are most at risk - BBC News

We have new information about the nature of the

coronavirus

. The latest figures from China tell us that the death toll exceeds eighteen hundred, the number of infections exceeds 73,000, the mortality rate in Hubei province, which is the center of the outbreak, is 2.9 percent, in other words. about three to 100 infections cause death, curiously the mortality rate is much lower not even point four percent in other places in China, so we don't fully understand why we know that 81 percent of cases are mild, the 40 percent serious, five percent critical and that men are more likely to die than women, children are generally not seriously affected, unfortunately the same is not true for the

elderly

, the highest mortality rate is for women people aged 80 or older.

For more information on this new

study

, here's Stephen McDonald in Beijing, in one way, it's great that 80 percent of people who have this virus are relatively mild, but five percent are in pretty serious condition. Now again, five percent doesn't seem like a lot, but five percent of a few hundred people wouldn't be so bad if you had five percent. out of tens of thousands of people, I mean more than 60,000, we don't even really know how many people have been infected, I mean, in raw numbers, many people who are in quite serious condition, we have also been told that seven medical professionals in China have died and more than 3,000 health workers have been infected on Tuesday the director of a hospital in the city of Wuhan died the head of the World Health Organization tweeted his deepest condolences to the family of dr.

Lu Jia Ming, his colleagues and patients, says he touched and saved numerous lives during this outbreak and that a central element of China's response to this deepening crisis is to issue more and more restrictions on what people can do. NIC spike in Hong Kong explains who Bay province is where it all started they still have this lockdown al

most

60 million people being told they can't go out and cars are not allowed right now many of the shops are closed, only pharmacies and places where you can get basic food supplies are still open and only every three days someone in the family can venture out and get more supplies, so it's a pretty bleak picture and of course, If you look at what is happening in Beijing, people in the capital who arrive there are told to quarantine themselves for two weeks;

Very radical measures are being used in many different places in mainland China, but not everyone is standing still. 25,000 medical workers from across China have headed to Who Bay province to help and We are often working on new temporary hospitals, this is one facility, another ten are planned and the authorities are offering incentives to health workers to come to your Bay. Celia Hatton, priority will be offered there to the children of frontline medical workers in Hull Bay. access priority placements in schools for young children to receive priority placements and in really good kindergartens to placements in University Place.

Children who write their university entrance exams will get extra points added to their exam total in China, that is. It is really important that there is a lot of pressure on children to get into good schools, which could tip the balance for some people who are considering whether they should go to work at who. Well, the virus has now spread to at least 29 countries. You can see what's marked in red here and the biggest concentration outside of China is still in Yokohama in Japan on the ship we've talked a lot about, a cruise ship called the Diamond Princess.

There are now more than 450 cases on board of what happened. three thousand five hundred crew and passengers, now that number has decreased after hundreds of Americans returned home and also because South Korea is also taking action and preparing to fly its citizens home on a presidential plane. We know that Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Israel and Hong Kong are also looking to get their people off the ship while thousands remain trapped on it and obviously that is affecting people in different ways. Yes, these are some kitchen staff making a successful attempt at distraction and also a successful attempt at going viral.

Now, a British couple has been sharing updates during their stay on the ship and they just posted this on Facebook. Today there will be a moment of tranquility. It has been proven that we are positive and we will soon go to the hospital. Blessings for all. This is Sally and David Abel, there among 74 Brits in the diamond princess, their son has been speaking to the BBC, but received an email from a father saying that both your mother and I tested positive, let's get to the words, yes, he will go to a hospital. I do them over FaceTime.

I didn't immediately talk or see I didn't talk to my dad or see my dad I only communicated with my mom but I heard my dad in the background, you know, it doesn't sound too good Japan imposed a 14 two-day quarantine period on the ship that one expert has called it an unprecedented failure. Either way, that plan theoretically ends on Wednesday. Here's Rupert Winfield Hays and what that really means for the remaining passengers. The quarantine will officially end and the 2,000 or more. Passengers who are still on board and who tested negative will be allowed to start leaving the ship, they can walk out this door, take a taxi, get on a bus, but what happens then is much less clear: The British government says it will send a plane to pick him up.

British passengers - but it has not yet said when or if they will face further quarantine when they return to Britain - should bring the South China Morning Post's Laurel Westbrook, who is live with this from Hong Kong. Laura, who has a view of the program. Deep down you have been talking to people on the boat, what have they told you? Yes, I am in contact with a couple of passengers on your Diamond Princess cruise ship. They are under a lot of mental stress at the moment the person I spoke to he is a doctor so he is a dentist by training and one of the things he raised with me was that while the passengers were quarantined on this ship, the members of The crew were still working moving the ship until recently, he said people had been provided with food. on open carts and only hot meals were covered with foil, but there was still a tea and coffee service, so there were concerns that if the food was not covered on people, this could affect the spread of the outbreak. so he and his wife decided not to eat any open containers, they survive on noodles and bottled water and in fact the captain of the ship announced yesterday that they will be getting food off the ship from an organization off the ship. so there is a lot of uncertainty on the ship, there is a lot of concern among the passengers, obviously it is the

largest

corona virus cluster outside of mainland China, but dr.

I'm assuming Lam will be among some of the Hong Kongers who will be on these charter flights leaving Japan early on Thursday, but then when they arrive in Hong Kong, they will be quarantined for another 14 days here, so if that's the case as the authorities are closing in on that particular cruise ship. What about the broader corona virus challenge in Hong Kong? What kind of restrictions are in place at this time? So many people are working from home. The schools are closed. The government announced an investment of 25 billion. The Hong Kong dollar fund to help address this crisis goes to retailers and it also goes to produce and subsidize companies to produce more mosques because that was one of the criticisms of the government in handling this crisis; people said they were too slow. and that the government itself admitted that it only has enough masks for two months and, unlike Singapore and Taiwan, people in Hong Kong have to buy their own masks.

Some in the neighborhoods I live in I see questions at pharmacies every day. Trying to buy Mawson's, which used to cost a few dollars, is now $100 and people are spending their own money to buy those masks and also buy hand sanitizer. Laura, we appreciate the update. Thank you so much. In fact, there are more Westbrooks from the South China Morning Post. and there is much more information about

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