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Complicated Infections with Coronavirus reduced in China


Mon 17 Feb 2020 | 07:47 PM
Ahmed Moamar

Mai Fing, spokesman for the General Committee of Public Health in China announced that the rate of complicated infections with Coronavirus reduced within the last three weeks from 159% to 72% of the total number of the infection case across the country.

He affirmed that the retreat of the crucial cases could be interpreted as proof of the effectiveness of the efforts exerted by various government agencies to fight the deadly virus.

He mentioned that the crucial cases in Wuhan, the epicenter of the disease was 325% on January 28.

But that the percentage of infections dropped to 216% by the mid of February.

In Hubei, a middle province in China, where the epidemic broke out late December, the crucial cases reduced from 18,4% in January to 11,1 by the middle of the current month.

On the other hand, Commissioner of the National Council for Trade in the White House (WH) Peter Navaro, announced on Saturday,  that five leading Pharmaceutical companies are preparing to produce 150 million doses of a vaccine fighting the deadly virus of the corona by November.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has renamed the deadly virus of corona as COVID-19.

According to Navaro, the American companies cooperate together in a mega project resembles in its volume production of nuclear arms.

Manufacturing of a new effective vaccine fighting the deadly virus needs more effort and research work at the highest level.

The US official went on to say that an experimental tool seems promising to produce the envisioned vaccine.

The new vaccine is expected to be tested and produced by the middle of March.

Government agencies and a group of technology companies in China cooperated to develop the new device.

The device gives a strong warning when the user nears an infected person without effective defense, even the infection is probable.

Users of the device have considerable protection inside classrooms, a house, a medical crew existent in a place.

Also, people contact the infected people or those who treat the infected find the device very effective along with attendants on a plane or a train.

The central government of China has decided to dispatch more than 20 thousand medics to Hubei province, the epicenter of the Coronavirus, to fight the deadly virus there.

The city of Wuhan, the urban center of that province, has registered the highest rate of infection since late December 2019.

The Chinese authorities revealed that fatalities of the virus exceeded the threshold of one thousand so far along with 426 thousand injuries.

The data collected by scientists at UK Southampton University estimates the virus’s spread for the next three months.

It’s based on the mobile phone and flight data of 60,000 of five million residents who fled Wuhan – where Coronavirus originated – before the region was properly locked down.

The research group used tech data to predict the spread, with shocking results.

Thousands of air passengers whose data was mapped traveled to 382 cities outside of mainland China in the days leading up to January 23 – Wuhan’s lockdown date.

And the team warns: “The majority of these cities were in Asia, but major hubs in Europe, the US and Australia were also prominent, with strong correlation seen between predicted importation risks and reported cases seen”.

Researchers urge screening at origin high-risk cities across the globe before April – and that’s simply to limit the spread beyond its current extent.

During China‘s Lunar New Year, scores of potentially infected Chinese residents from high-risk cities traveled to Thailand, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, the United States, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, and Australia.

The study’s authors concluded: “Further spread of COVID-19 within China and international exportation is likely to occur.”

They warned all cities should be prepared to contain the spread of the deadly virus.