China’s 2019-nCoV Epidemic Updates: 13 Cities Now Under Lockdown, Death Toll 31, 2 New Cases in Singapore and Additional cases in Korea and Japan
Source: Thailand Medical News Jan 24, 2020 4 years, 9 months, 4 weeks, 2 days, 13 hours, 13 minutes ago
13 Cities in
China are now on lockdown involving a population of about 35 million people. The cities include
Wuhan, Ezhou, Huanggang, Chibi, Xiantao, Zhijiang, Qianjiang, Huangshi, Xianning and Yichang, HuangZhou, Yangxin and Xiushui. More cities are expected to be placed in lockdown over the weekened.
So far as of 5pm (Bangkok Time) today, 31 people have died from the disease including two out of the province of Hubei (one in Hebei province and another in Heilongjiang province). One
death included a healthy 36 year old male with no underlying medical conditions.
Official figures for the number infected have not been officially released but its estimated to have reached extremely high figures.
Cases are sprouting out all over
China including Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Xinjiang, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces.
Two new cases have appeared in Singapore bring the total there to 3 while both Japan and Korea are reporting new cases bringing the total to these countries to two each. 14 people have been tested in the UK but 5 have been confirmed as negative while the other 9 are still waiting for their results.
Hospitals all over
China are overloaded with patients while Chinese New Year celebrations have been cancelled all over the country. Macau, Hong Kong and even Taiwan has also cancelled all Chinese New Year celebrations.
Meanwhile health experts in Europe are now claiming that there
China is withholding critical information it has about the new
2019-nCoV virus. Many are speculating that the virus is not just a normal
coronavirus hybrid but rather as earlier genetical screenings had reported, it was a hybrid of two strains , one a recognized
coronavirus strain and another an unidentified strain that could have originated from another pathogen.
Also, the
virus seems to be getting more potent and conditions of the latest patients who died over the last 24 hours seems different from the earlier deaths. In earlier deaths, severe
pneumonia symptoms were apparent but not in the latest
deaths over the last 24 hours.
A Chinese medical specialists at Beijing who wished to remain anonymous told
Thailand Medical News that the virus is definitely mutating and that within the next two weeks, casualty and infection figures are expected to rise drastically.
