25-02-2020, 09:00 PM
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https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/25/p...ics/index.htmlThe President maintained his sunny optimism about the virus that is showing signs of spreading around the world from its Chinese epicenter and is already having a huge impact on global commerce.
25-02-2020, 10:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Mags
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I have just heard that my nephew's friend at college in Italy has just been tested positive... 
25-02-2020, 10:55 PM
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I feel so terribly sorry for all those people trapped in hotels etc. Tenerife is a place I know really well and we have stayed in hotels close to the one affected a number of times. While it's nice for a few days of wintersun to be imprisoned there would be awful. Worrying about your flight home, what's happening to your car at the airport, your job, your pets, your medication, all that other stuff and being stuck in a resort that was heavenly but is now a living hell. You can imagine that there would be no cleaning and what would happen to food and other needs? Such places soon become disgusting when not looked after if staff are in lockdown etc. So many people who go there this time of year are pensioners, but with half term there must be a fair few with young children. I hope that they can get home safe and sound soon.
25-02-2020, 11:41 PM
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With coronavirus now spreading through populations far from its origins in China, experts say it's become a matter of when — not if — the outbreak becomes a pandemic.That means it's now time for us all to start preparing, according to University of Queensland virologist Ian Mackay.
"We need to be aware that we are probably heading for that pandemic even if the World Health Organisation doesn't want to call it that yet," Professor Mackay says.
"It's just a matter of time."
Travel bans and quarantine measures have had success in some parts of the world, but the virus has now started killing people in parts of Iran, Italy and South Korea.
Its highly contagious nature is making it difficult to contain.
The World Health Organisation defines a pandemic as "the worldwide spread of a new disease".
It declared a global health emergency last month, but says it's still too early to declare the outbreak a pandemic.
WHO's director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, says the virus has pandemic potential but, right now, using the word "does not fit the facts but may certainly cause fear".
But that's likely to change if the number of cases keeps growing in Europe, the Middle East and east Asia.
Australia's chief medical officer, Brendan Murphy, says even though the virus doesn't appear to be spreading in Australia for now, "if there is a global pandemic, we will be prepared".
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-...lared/11998540
25-02-2020, 11:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Mags
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I have just heard that my nephew's friend at college in Italy has just been tested positive...
Oh goodness Mags, I am so sorry to hear that.
Hope everything's alright.
25-02-2020, 11:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Bruce
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With coronavirus now spreading through populations far from its origins in China, experts say it's become a matter of when — not if — the outbreak becomes a pandemic.That means it's now time for us all to start preparing, according to University of Queensland virologist Ian Mackay.
"We need to be aware that we are probably heading for that pandemic even if the World Health Organisation doesn't want to call it that yet," Professor Mackay says.
"It's just a matter of time."
Travel bans and quarantine measures have had success in some parts of the world, but the virus has now started killing people in parts of Iran, Italy and South Korea.
Its highly contagious nature is making it difficult to contain.
The World Health Organisation defines a pandemic as "the worldwide spread of a new disease".
It declared a global health emergency last month, but says it's still too early to declare the outbreak a pandemic.
WHO's director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, says the virus has pandemic potential but, right now, using the word "does not fit the facts but may certainly cause fear".
But that's likely to change if the number of cases keeps growing in Europe, the Middle East and east Asia.
Australia's chief medical officer, Brendan Murphy, says even though the virus doesn't appear to be spreading in Australia for now, "if there is a global pandemic, we will be prepared".
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-...lared/11998540
I was told they are sold out .
25-02-2020, 11:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Muddy
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I tried to buy a some masks today ( I am in Australia ) I have already got two but thought I better stock up for my return journey I was told they are sold out .
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