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Eighteen imported cases were reported in the city on Wednesday, bringing the total number to 112. Another 20 imported suspected cases are undergoing check, said the Shanghai Health Commission on Thursday morning.To get more news about shanghai coronavirus update, you can visit shine news official website.

Nine are Chinese studying abroad: two in the UK, six in the US and one in France.

The 10th case is a British national, who left the UK on March 20, arrived at the Shanghai Pudong International Airport on March 22 via Bangkok and was put under quarantine upon arrival.

The 11th is a British national, who left the UK on March 21, arrived at the Pudong airport the next day via Singapore and was put under quarantine upon arrival.

The 12th is a Shanghai native, who traveled in Malaysia. The person left Malaysia on March 22 and arrived at the Pudong airport the same day. The person was sent to a designated hospital upon arrival for showing symptoms.

The 13th is an American, who left the US on March 21, arrived at the Pudong airport the next day via Taipei and was put under quarantine upon arrival.

The 14th is a Fujian Province native, who made a business trip in the UK. The person left the UK on March 21, arrived at the Pudong airport the next day via Russia and was put under quarantine upon arrival.

The 15th is a Canadian, who lived in the US. The person left the US on March 21, arrived at the Pudong airport on March 23 via Japan and was put under quarantine upon arrival.

The 16th is a Beijing native, who lived in Indonesia. The person left Indonesia on March 23, arrived at the Pudong airport the same day via Hong Kong and was sent to a hospital upon arrival for showing symptoms.

The 17th is an Italian, who lived in the US. The person left the US on March 23, arrived at the Pudong airport the next day via Hong Kong and was put under quarantine upon arrival.

The 18th is a Sichuan Province native, who lived in France. The person left France on March 22, arrived at the Pudong airport the next day and was sent to a hospital for showing symptoms upon arrival.

All the 18 patients have been sent to the designated hospital for treatment and their 73 close contacts on the planes have been tracked and put under quarantine and observation.

No local confirmed cases or suspected cases were reported on Wednesday, the commission said. So far, 339 local cases have been reported.

Now 116 patients are hospitalized, including 109 imported cases. One hundred and eight patients are stable, two are seriously sick and six are in critical condition.
buzai232 Mar 26 '20, 11:59PM
Metro Parks announced Wednesday the immediate closure of playgrounds, dog parks, basketball courts, tennis courts, picnic shelters and skate parks.To get more metro news, you can visit shine news official website.

Metro Parks Director Monique Odom said the decision to close additional facilities was made with the guidance from the Metro Health Department and out of an abundance of caution for public safety.

“While we want to offer people safe and viable recreational options during this time, we also want to make sure we help flatten the curve of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our staff monitored certain sites and noticed areas of crowding and close contacts. We could not continue to keep these sites open when people clearly were not following the social distancing protocol set forth by the CDC,” said Odom.

Playgrounds, dog parks, basketball courts, tennis courts, picnic shelters, and skate parks will be closed until further notice, according to the Parks Dept.

Parks, greenways, trails and golf courses remain open. Anyone utilizing a park, greenway, golf course, or trail is expected to follow the CDC social distancing protocol. Patrons walking on to golf courses should note that all golf club houses are closed, which means concessions, restrooms and cart rentals are not available.

Park patrons using greenways, trails, and parks are expected to wash their hands, stay at least 6 feet from another person, and stay at home if sick. Both Metro Parks and the Health Department discourages any type of activity that would negatively impact social distancing protocol.

buzai232 Mar 26 '20, 11:51PM
The coronavirus crisis has revealed the severe supply-chain risks inherent in tying the U.S. economy to China. But a potentially even bigger problem is Wall Street indexes and related funds drastically increasing their stakes in opaque and often criminal Chinese companies, without disclosing the risks to millions of American investors.To get more latest banking finance news, you can visit shine news official website.
Senior U.S. officials, lawmakers and experts are sounding the alarm about huge pension funds increasing their holdings of Chinese assets, despite economic and national security concerns. The retirement savings of millions of U.S. investors are becoming dependent on the success of Chinese companies that lack real transparency, are connected to the Chinese military or stand accused of complicity in mass atrocities.
Beijing pushes Wall Street to fund its firms, enlisting U.S. citizens in support of China’s economic aggression. And when national security officials speak out, they are accused of racism, a common Chinese government tactic to reject any criticism.
Robert C. O’Brien, the national security adviser, weighed in Wednesday on the controversy surrounding the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, known as CalPERS. The largest public pension fund in the country, CalPERS manages more than $300 billion in assets for 1.6 million public employees. It has steadily been increasing its holding of Chinese assets.
“It’s something we are looking at. It’s an issue for American investors,” O’Brien said at the Heritage Foundation in Washington. “Some of the CalPERS investment policies are incredibly concerning.”
O’Brien pointed out that Chinese companies’ books can’t be verified — and they are notorious for cooking their books — so the risks to investors can’t be known. He also noted CalPERS is directing U.S. taxpayers’ dollars into companies connected to the military expansion of an adversary.
CalPERS holds $3.1 billion worth of shares in 172 different Chinese companies and last fall rebalanced its portfolio to add 198 companies, half based in China. Their holdings include Chinese military contractors such as China Shipbuilding Industry Corp. and companies currently sanctioned by the Commerce Department for building surveillance and internment camps in Xinjiang, such as Hikvision.
The economic and national security concerns are linked. U.S. pressure on Chinese bad actors is undermined when Wall Street sends them billions in cash. In turn, the more Wall Street is invested in Chinese bad actors, the more they lobby against Washington’s actions, to Beijing’s benefit.
Ben Meng, CalPERS’s chief investment officer and a U.S. citizen who grew up in China, once was connected to a Chinese Communist Party recruitment effort called the Thousand Talents Program. The FBI has said Beijing uses this program for nontraditional espionage. The Senate Permanent Select Committee on Investigations revealed in a recent report several instances of the program being used for criminal abuses of U.S. institutions of all kinds.
China’s People’s Daily reported in 2017 that Meng was recruited through the Thousand Talents Program for his three-year stint as deputy CIO for China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE). Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) called on California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) to fire Meng, based on the association.
Meng eventually admitted his past connection to Thousand Talents last month, while CalPERS and several Wall Street heavyweights attacked Banks. Oaktree Capital founder Howard Marks accused Banks of singling out Meng "on the basis of [his] family’s national origin.” CalPERS is a client of Oaktree.
Scrutiny of Thousand Talents is not targeted at ethnically Chinese participants. The H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute fired its non-Chinese CEO and vice president in December for not disclosing their participation in Thousand Talents. The chairman of Harvard University’s chemistry department — also not ethnically Chinese — was criminally charged in January for hiding his Thousand Talents connections while taking Defense Department money.
buzai232 Mar 26 '20, 11:40PM
Ordinarily, having an aperitivo in Venice’s St Mark’s Square would cost a small fortune. Not on 3 March, when bar owners offered a free drink for each one purchased in an attempt to attract custom as the city emptied out amid Italy’s developing coronavirus outbreak. The offer was intended to last a month.To get more news about coronavirus italy, you can visit shine news official website.
In Rome, restaurant touts jokingly invited people to try a “carbonaravirus” as the tourists left in the capital went along with the relaxed vibe, choosing to carry on with their holiday rather than go home. That was during the first week of March. Business owners could hardly be blamed for worrying about the impact of coronavirus on their livelihoods, especially when leaders were giving confusing messages.

On 27 February, four days after 11 towns in the north were quarantined and when 17 people had died of the virus and 650 were infected, Nicola Zingaretti, the leader of the governing Democratic party, travelled to Milan, whose wider Lombardy region is the centre of the outbreak, for an aperitif with a group of students. “We must not change our habits,” he wrote in a post on social media. “Our economy is stronger than fear: let’s go out for an aperitivo, a coffee or to eat a pizza.”

On the same day, Beppe Sala, the mayor of Milan, shared a video with the slogan “Milan does not stop.” The clip contained images of people hugging each other, eating in restaurants, walking in parks and waiting at train stations. Nine days after his trip to the city, by which time the death toll had risen to 233 and confirmed cases 5,883, Zingaretti announced he was suffering from the virus.

As Boris Johnson gave his most explicit warning yet on Sunday that the UK might face an Italian-style lockdown, Italy’s experience – particularly the way people went about their business in the early days of the crisis –could serve as a warning to other European countries that appear to be following a similar infection trajectory.

Giuseppe Pantaleo, a social psychologist at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan, said: “At the beginning people were not really believing what was happening so politicians like Zingaretti and others just wanted to reassure the population. He went to Milan to demonstrate some forms of social behaviour were still safe and that the government was working towards a solution and so on, but he of course underestimated the risk.”

Medics also clashed, with some taking the virus seriously and others writing it off as only a bit more serious than flu.

As the virus spread, the public turned to humour, with memes and videos shared across social media, including one of an Italian grandmother giving advice about hand-washing. Another featured mobsters hatching a plan to smuggle Amuchina, the Italian-made hand sanitiser enjoying a boom in sales, instead of cocaine.

“Either within their social groups or on social media, people reacted with jokes and irony,” said Pantaleo. “Laughing is a very common reaction that people have when they’re confronted with the idea of death. But of course, in those early days nobody saw it as a serious possibility.”Kissing on the cheek and hugging were banned, and social distancing advised. However, in another foreshadowing of the UK’s situation, people were still out and about, frequenting bars, restaurants, parks and beaches. With no school or university, teenagers and students took the opportunity to socialise more with friends.

For the most part, life carried on as normal until an abrupt change on 8 March, when deaths from Covid-19 leapt by more than 50%. The prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, ordered the whole of Lombardy and 14 other provinces across other badly affected northern regions to be quarantined. The news of the quarantine was leaked to the Italian press a few hours before an official announcement, provoking thousands of people of southern origin to flee home from the north.
buzai232 Mar 24 '20, 12:26AM

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qxcvbnmy Mar 24 '20, 12:22AM
Political clash over coronavirus stimulus hits global markets



Political disagreements in Washington continued to stall economic relief for U.S. households on Monday, as postponement of the Olympic Games looked increasingly likely and everyday life remained curtailed under pandemic-related shutdowns.To get more news about coronavirus china update, you can visit shine news official website.
Republicans and Democrats are at odds over the makeup of a coronavirus stimulus package, which Senate Democrats blocked on Sunday evening, saying it did not offer sufficient help for individuals. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R.-Ky.) plans to force a second vote Monday unless a bipartisan deal emerges before then.
The roadblock heightened anxiety for investors already alarmed about the pandemic’s toll on the global economy. U.S. stock futures fell about 4 percent, while markets in Asia also retreated.
Doubts grew, meanwhile, about whether the Olympics will go ahead in Tokyo this summer, after Canada’s Olympic Committee said it would not send athletes to Japan this year. Japanese leader Shinzo Abe told parliament on Monday that postponing the Games may be an option.
New York state’s death toll reached 114, surpassing Washington state and accounting for one-third of U.S. coronavirus deaths, as Ohio and Louisiana became the latest states to announce stay-at-home orders.
President Trump appeared to suggest that coronavirus containment measures may be too extreme. “We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself,” he wrote in a tweet in capital letters.
The United Arab Emirates said it was suspending all flights for two weeks, affecting operations at major hub airports including Dubai.
In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel has been placed under quarantine after a doctor who administered a vaccine to her Friday tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
Spain has extended its lockdown for another 15 days, and authorities in Britain told people with serious health problems to self-quarantine for the next 12 weeks.
buzai232 Mar 24 '20, 12:18AM
Wuhan, the centre of the coronavirus outbreak in China, has begun to loosen its two-month lockdown on citizens as more countries issued new restrictions to contain the pandemic.To get more news about coronavirus china wuhan, you can visit shine news official website.

On Monday, small groups of residents in the central Chinese city were leaving their residential compounds, going to grocery stores and walking along the streets for the first time in weeks. At the weekend, the first train arrived in the city ferrying more than 1,000 workers from elsewhere in the province back to the city for work.

On Sunday, local authorities said residents could begin returning to work if they did not have a temperature and could provide a green health code, signifying their virus-free status as well as a certificate from their employer. Officials said the city would be “gradually” reopened and public transportation would resume.

Non-residents, those stranded in Wuhan since the stringent travel restrictions went into effect on 23 January, could also begin applying to leave the city, city authorities said.

Residents in Wuhan said only those from compounds deemed virus-free were allowed to leave and that citizens were still wary of going out onto the streets. “Everyone is being very careful,” said Iris Yao, 40, who has been in the city for the last two months.

While the officially reported number of locally transmitted infections in China has dropped dramatically over the last weeks, imported cases continue to rise.On Monday, China reported 39 new cases from the previous day, all of which were from imported cases, according to the National Health Commission. On Sunday, China ordered that all international flights to Beijing to be diverted to other cities where passengers will be screened before continuing on to the capital. Shanghai and Guangzhou have said they will begin testing all international arrivals for the virus.

In another sign that normal life was starting to return in China, there were reports of traffic jams in Beijing on Monday morning.There have now been over 81,000 cases in China, and the death toll has reached 3,270.

The loosening of restrictions in Wuhan came as other nations intensified their response to the virus. In the US, President Donald Trump activated the National Guard in New York, California and Washington state, three of the states hardest hit by Covid-19. Trump said additional supplies will also go the three states, including extra beds and facemasks.

Trump also said he had directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) to set up “medical stations” in those three states. He said: Four large medical stations with 1,000 beds for New York, eight large federal medical stations with 2,000 beds for California, and three large federal medical stations and four small federal medical stations with 1,000 beds for the state of Washington.”

The number of Covid-19 cases in the US has now gone past 33,000, with 417 deaths. New York is a major hotspot, with 5% of cases worldwide. Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York city, on Sunday said hospital supplies including ventilators, masks and surgical gloves would be exhausted within 10 days.

On Sunday evening the city faced shutdown after governor Andrew Cuomo ordered the closure of all non-essential businesses in the state. Except for essential services, all New Yorkers were ordered to stay indoors from 8pm Sunday evening.

The closure came as Democrats blocked an economic stimulus package, claiming it favoured big business over the rights of workers. Trump has faced growing anger over his response to the outbreak. The president has tried to blunt criticism, saying help was on the way for states that need it.

By the end of Sunday, nearly one in three Americans was under orders to stay home as Ohio, Louisiana and Delaware became the latest states to enact broad restrictions.

On the other side of the Pacific, New Zealand’s prime minister announced the nation would go into lockdown on Wednesday for a month to stem the spread of the virus. As cases in the country rose past 100, Jacinda Ardern said she was not she was not willing to put the lives of her citizens in danger.

“The worst-case scenario is simply intolerable, it would represent the greatest loss of New Zealanders’ lives in our history and I will not take that chance,” she said while bringing in measures that exceed those in countries where the outbreak is more severe.

The nation was given two days to prepare for schools, businesses and community services to turn off the lights.

Ardern said it was established that community transmission was happening in New Zealand and that, if it took off, the number of cases would double every five days, with modelling advising the government that tens of thousands of New Zealanders could die.
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qxcvbnmy Mar 19 '20, 02:41AM
Tucked away in a park here, near a spiraling observation tower and an aviary teeming with exotic birds, is a monument of thin white pillars, metal and glass. Beneath the memorial’s canopy, eight bronze busts sit on square concrete podiums. The faces, forward looking, gazes fixed and lips drawn in the slightest of smiles, are those of medical workers who died battling the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). The illness, which first appeared in Hong Kong in February 2003, would spread to some 1,700 people in the city and kill 299, including the nurses, doctors, and hospital workers whose lives have been commemorated at the park.To get more news about slogan about novel coronavirus, you can visit shine news official website.
One of the busts is of Tse Yuen-man, a doctor who volunteered to treat patients who had fallen ill with the disease. By April, Tse was herself sick. She died the next month, aged 35, becoming the first public-hospital doctor to die of SARS. Tse was buried in Gallant Garden, a cemetery for members of the civil service, alongside police officers and firefighters who died in the line of duty. On top of that rare honor, she was awarded Hong Kong’s Gold Medal for Bravery. The citation reads like the retelling of a soldier’s actions in battle: “By voluntarily putting her own life in extreme danger in order to save others, Dr Tse displayed noble gallantry of the highest order in carrying out her last duties.” The monument opened two years after her death. On a recent visit, office workers on their lunch break chatted through face masks, and green signs hung in the park, carrying the government’s slogan for countering the new pandemic, “Together, We Fight the Virus!”
A health crisis similar to the one now playing out globally has unfolded in few places in recent memory, and the imprint SARS has left on this city speaks to the legacy the novel coronavirus may well leave on much of the world. The experience of SARS traumatized Hong Kong, and the memories have endured in the territory’s collective consciousness. The doctors who helped combat the virus are widely known, tales of sacrifice by medical workers are often repeated, and the city’s ability to rebound once the virus subsided is frequently invoked by leaders to show its resilience and spirit. The experience also brought about a rise in public-health awareness and a sense of civic responsibility toward preventing illness, as well as an increased investment in health care and research, factors that seem to have helped effectively contain the outbreak of the novel coronavirus here. When news emerged of a mystery outbreak in mainland China, Hong Kong residents, almost out of instinct, began taking measures that health experts credit with helping stave off the explosion of infections seen elsewhere. The government, after initial stumbles, enacted a series of regulations to slow the spread and leaned on experts, many of whom came to prominence in 2003, to assist with the new crisis.

The SARS outbreak is “remembered vividly” by people who lived through it and “in no place is this more true than in Hong Kong,” says Keiji Fukuda, the director of the University of Hong Kong’s School of Public Health, who previously held top positions at the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “While in many places, the general public tends to regard outbreaks, more or less, like a television fantasy or brief news item,” he told me, “in Hong Kong, the public take outbreaks, and recommendations about what to do, seriously.”

Well before the emergence of the coronavirus, surgical masks have been a common sight on the city’s subways and buses, as people suffering from even a mild cough or sniffles wore them as a precaution against infecting others. Small signs on elevator panels and doors indicate how often they are disinfected. Hospitals maintain separate waiting areas for those experiencing flu-like symptoms. Using a tissue or pen to press an elevator button would hardly garner a quizzical look. News of disease outbreaks in China, and Asia more broadly, receive considerable news coverage. These measures that permeate everyday life are largely linked to the lasting memory of SARS. The outbreak “facilitated the development of public health at the institutional level, but it has also enabled the Hong Kong population to become aware of the importance of personal hygiene and infection prevention at the community level,” Judy Yuen-man Siu, an assistant professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s Department of Applied Social Science, observed in a 2016 paper examining the widespread adoption of face masks during the crisis.
buzai232 Mar 18 '20, 11:57PM
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