Reports revealed that a team of scientists in China has developed a new medical test that detects the infection with the Coronavirus in less than 15 minutes.
Experts around the world consider that breakthrough as a wide step toward fighting and containing the deadly virus which broke in China last December.
The virus claimed the lives of more than two hundred people and injured some ten thousand persons in China and other countries in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America.
The scientists hope that the new test helps greatly to stop the virus and prevent it from spreading in and out of China.
Experts at a technology company based in Wuxi in east China's Jiangsu Province, working with the National Institute of Viral Disease Control and Prevention, developed a rapid DNA test in just 10 days, according to Xinhua, the Chinese national news agency.
The effective material of the test is currently being manufactured in large quantities at an average of 4,000 sets per day.
The local government in Wuxi is monitoring efforts to increase production.
The first batch of the test was reportedly already handed over to hospitals on the front lines at the epidemic outbreak epicenter at Wuhan, Hubei Province in the middle of China.
The death toll from the virus continues to rise, as does the rate of infection worldwide.
On Friday, January 31, the UK confirmed the first case of the disease.
The UK joined more than 15 other countries around the world with other confirmed cases.
Up to date, about 213 patients have died as a result of infection with the Coronavirus, and another 9,700 have contracted the deadly disease.
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On the other hand, more than 7,000 people were quarantined on an Italian cruise ship in the Mediterranean port of Civitavecchia outside of Rome after a Chinese woman from Hong Kong came down with a fever and symptoms similar to the coronavirus.
Initial tests seemed to exclude the deadly virus, according to Italian media, but passengers were expected to be kept on board overnight as a precaution. A second round of tests late Thursday completely excluded contagion, and Italy’s health authorities gave the green light for passengers to disembark. But as of Thursday evening, the mayor of Civitavecchia refused to authorize any passengers to get off the ship.
Tourism operators, who have been confronted suddenly with a new nightmare scenario tied to the virus, scrambled to address fears of an outbreak on a cruise ship.
“We have no information, the internet inside the ship isn’t working, and we can’t get news. But above all, we take meals together in the common areas, and we don’t know if someone is infected,” Liborio Iervolino, a cruise passenger from Puglia said. ‘There are no disposable dishes and in the rooms, the televisions only broadcast advertisements. We would like to see the news and understand what is happening.”
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