Sri Lanka enters into second major Covid cycle with identified source from Gampaha

A woman was being positive for Covid-19 for test done in a hospital when she was discharging. Day after around 80 has been positive for the test and as it for now more than 600 individuals been tested positive. Majority has been positive from the workers who has been working in the garment. Woman's daughter also has been testes positive. As a result, over large number of students has been sent into quarantine.

As most of the work force has been coming from various parts of the country, the case seems to be serious.

At the start government has imposed curfew for three divisions in Gampaha and gave holiday for all the schools.

Today officially government has asked to prevent any public gathering to control the spreading. The day time government imposed curfew for Gampaha and in the evening it was withdrawn and reduced to previous 3 divisions. 

Incident happened along with US President being tested positive with her wife, first lady Melania Trump. Also at the same time, Sri Lanka Government is looking to take controversial 20th amendment to parliament. It's questionable, the state of the government to go for a complete lock down as people and GOSL has the scale to face such a challenge. Inevitably, people has a major responsibility to take care for them as historically its not wise to depend on GOSL administration.

@CoronaOutBreak @Cycle2

Corona, Covid 19 outbreak

Today US surpassed 1000 cases.

Italy records the highest single day toll. More than 163 deaths in a single day, during last 24 hours.

Corona , Covid 19 outbreak Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka ministry of health officially declared the first Covid 19 patient from Sri Lanka yesterday.

He is a tour guide attached to  group of Italian tourists. He is been quarantined and under the treatment. Government is examining the trail of people he has been working in the past and situation is in under control.

Corona Virus ( COVID-19 ) looks to be stabilising

Today is more better compared to yesterday since we have observed a lower death toll rise.

death toll = 116 during last 24 hours and 4823 new cases diagnosed with positive.
total = nearly 1370 ( two outside china)

Outside China there had been two deaths and 447 cases in 24 countries



On Thursday Japan announced its first coronavirus death - a woman in her 80s who lived in Kanagawa, south-west of Tokyo.

The woman's diagnosis was confirmed after her death and she had no obvious link to China's Hubei province, the epicentre of the outbreak, Japanese media reported.


What is happening on the Diamond Princess?
The vessel is in quarantine in Yokohama. Not all the 3,700 people on board have been tested yet.

People with the virus are taken to hospitals on land to be treated, while those on board are largely confined to their cabins.

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The Diamond Princess has 3,700 people on board - not all of whom have been tested
However on Thursday Japan said it would allow those aged 80 or over who have tested negative for the coronavirus to disembark.

Health Minister Katsunobu Kato said they could be allowed off the ship as early as Friday but would have to stay in accommodation provided by the government, the Japan Times reported.

Meanwhile another cruise ship - the MS Westerdam - carrying more than 2,000 people docked in Cambodia after being turned away by ports in Japan, Taiwan, Guam, the Philippines and Thailand despite having no sick patients on board.

Corona Virus ( COVID-19 ) pass 200 deaths per day

Corona Virus ( COVID-19 ) death toll is keep rising and during last 24 hours over 200 people has died.

death toll = 242 during last 24 hours and nearly 15000 diagnosed with positive.
total = 1357 ( two outside china)

Total reported increased over 60,000

CoronaVirusa: death toll surpass 1000

Coronavirus death toll surpasses 1,000 in mainland China

Taiwan raises travel alerts for Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore and Thailand

Hong Kong and Macao: Taiwan has raised the travel alerts for the two semi-autonomous Chinese cities to level three, which urges the public not to travel to a location unless it's "necessary." Hong Kong has confirmed 42 cases and one fatality, while Macao has identified 10 infected patients.

Singapore: Taiwan raised the travel alert to Singapore to level two, which urges citizens to take "protective measures" if they travel there. Forty-five cases have been identified in the city state.

Thailand: Taiwanese authorities raised the travel alert to Thailand to level one, urging people heading there to "adhere to local preventive measures." The country has confirmed 33 coronavirus cases.

Coronavirus: Death toll rises as virus spreads to every Chinese region

The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak has risen to 170, and a confirmed case in Tibet means it has reached every region in mainland China.

Chinese health authorities said there were 7,711 confirmed cases in the country as of 29 January.

Infections have also spread to at least 15 other countries.

The World Health Organization (WHO) are again meeting in Geneva to consider whether the virus should be declared a global health emergency.

Various countries have implemented evacuation and quarantine plans for nationals wanting to return from China, where the outbreak began in the city of Wuhan.

Russia has decided to close its 4,300km (2,670-mile) far-eastern border with China in an attempt to stop contagion.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus named Germany, Vietnam and Japan, as places where people had caught the virus from others who had visited China.

What's the latest on evacuations?

Voluntary evacuations of hundreds of foreign nationals from Wuhan are under way to help people who want to leave the closed-off city and return to their countries.

The UK, Australia, South Korea, Singapore and New Zealand are expected to quarantine all evacuees for two weeks to monitor them for symptoms and avoid any contagion.

• Britons in Wuhan to return home on Friday

Australia plans to quarantine its evacuees on Christmas Island, 2,000km (1,200 miles) from the mainland in a detention centre that has been used to house asylum seekers.

Singapore is setting up a quarantine facility on Pulau Ubin, an island north-east of the city-state's mainland.

In other developments:

• Chicago health officials have reported the first US case of human-to-human transmission of the deadly coronavirus
• Six thousand people on board a cruise ship in Italy were barred from disembarking after a Chinese passenger was suspected of having coronavirus; however initial tests have come back as negative
• Flights to take British and South Korean citizens out of Wuhan have both been delayed after relevant permissions from the Chinese authorities did not come through
• Two flights to Japan have already landed in Tokyo. Three passengers have so far tested positive for the virus, Japanese media report
• Around 200 US citizens have been flown out of Wuhan and are being isolated at a military base in California for at least 72 hours
• Two aircraft are due to fly EU citizens home with 250 French nationals leaving on the first flight
• India has confirmed its first case of the virus - a student in the southern state of Kerala who was studying in Wuhan

How is China handling the outbreak?

Although questions have been raised about transparency, the WHO has praised China's handling of the outbreak. President Xi Jinping has vowed to defeat what he called a "devil" virus.

The central province of Hubei, where nearly all deaths have occurred, is in a state of lockdown. The province of 60 million people is home to Wuhan, the heart of the outbreak.

The city has effectively been sealed off and China has put numerous transport restrictions in place to curb the spread of the virus.

People who have been in Hubei are also being told by their employers to work from home until it is considered safe for them to return.

The virus is affecting China's economy, the world's second-largest, with a growing number of countries advising their citizens to avoid all non-essential travel to the country.

• How are coronavirus patients treated?
• How worried should we be?

Several international airlines have stopped or scaled back their routes to China and companies like Google, Ikea, Starbucks and Tesla have closed their shops or stopped operations.

There have been reports of food shortages in some places. State media says authorities are "stepping up efforts to ensure continuous supply and stable prices".

The Chinese Football Association has announced the postponement of all games in the 2020 season.

Who has been affected?

Although there have been nearly 8,000 infections, there has been little detailed information released on the profiles of patients and how the disease affects them.

Most of the confirmed cases involve people either from Wuhan or who had close contact with someone who had been there.

A new study published by The New England Journal of Medicine on the coronavirus is based on data for the first 425 confirmed cases in Wuhan. It reveals:

• Of the 425, 55% diagnosed before 1 January were linked to the seafood and animal market believed to be at the centre of the outbreak, compared with 8.6% of the subsequent cases
• The average age was 59 years and 56% were men
• Almost half the 425 cases were adults 60 years of age or older
• Human-to-human transmission among close contacts has occurred since the middle of December
• In its early stages, the epidemic doubled in size every seven days
• 89% of the patients were not hospitalised until at least day five of illness

Corona Virus Outbreak

Corona virus, which was started in a city in china in a illegal market is spreading its wings globally.
China has been reporting over 100 cases today officially.

What is the new coronavirus?

The virus causes severe acute respiratory infection and symptoms seem to start with a fever, followed by a dry cough. After a week, some people can experience shortness of breath and need hospital treatment.

The virus itself is a new, or "novel" coronavirus - a family that normally affects animals.
The effect of the coronavirus family on humans has long been observed mainly in the form of the common cold. In recent decades though, more serious coronaviruses - like Sars or Mers - have proven potentially deadly to humans.

Yet even in the cases of severe viruses most people infected were likely to fully recover just like they would from a normal flu.

On Tuesday, an expert at China's National Health Commission (NHC) said one week was sufficient for a recovery from mild coronavirus symptoms.

According to local media, the NHC also said the virus could infect children, but that their symptoms would be relatively mild.

Status up to now is as follows.

28th Jan 2020
China - 106 from  BBC  , pass 100 officially.

• Eight cases: Thailand
• Five: USA, Australia, Singapore, Taiwan
• Four: Malaysia, South Korea, Japan
• Three: France
• Two: Vietnam
• One: Nepal, Canada, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Germany, Cambodia