26 February 2020
By Alle McMahon
Scientists have warned the coronavirus (click here) appears to be spreading across Europe and Asia without showing symptoms, and even the most radical screening measures are likely missing most cases.
More than 80,000 people have now been infected with the Covid-19 virus and 2707 people have died since it first emerged at a seafood market in China in late December.
Cities across the world have been plunged into lockdown, with borders closed and airports thoroughly checking travellers for fevers or flu-like symptoms, news.com.au reported.
But Dr Simon Clarke, a specialist in cellular microbiology at England's University of Reading, said the virus was proving "extremely difficult to track"....
26 February 2020
The head of Iran's counter-coronavirus task force (click here) has tested positive for the virus himself, authorities announced Tuesday, showing the challenges facing the Islamic Republic amid concerns the outbreak may be far wider than officially acknowledged.
The announcement regarding Iraj Harirchi came after he gave a news conference with journalists in Tehran about the virus just one day prior, seeking to minimise the danger posed by the outbreak.
The United Arab Emirates on Tuesday meanwhile banned all flights to and from Iran over the outbreak of the new coronavirus, just a day after its spread from the Islamic Republic was announced across multiple Mideast nations. Iran earlier raised the official death toll from the virus to 15 killed amid 95 confirmed infections....
Sydney Morning Herald
26 February 2020
By Kate Aubusson and Melissa Cunningham
The Australian government (click here) has activated its emergency response plan to an impending coronavirus pandemic, foreshadowing fever clinics, fast-tracked vaccines and severe pressure on hospitals, blood banks, medical supplies and mortuaries.
Dubbed "The COVID-19 plan", the blueprint outlines a strategy in the event of a large-scale coronavirus outbreak as world leaders and biosecurity experts warn a pandemic is almost inevitable....
CNA (Asian News) - the US is terrified by Russian Fake News campaign.
22 February 2020
Washington - Thousands of Russian-linked social media accounts (click here)
have launched a coordinated effort to spread alarm about the new coronavirus, disrupting global efforts to fight the epidemic, US officials say.
The disinformation campaign promotes unfounded conspiracy theories that the United States is behind the COVID-19 outbreak, in an apparent bid to damage the US image around the world by seizing on health concerns....
Sputnik: There is absolutely radio silence about any coronavirus in Russia. Populous banter is all that can be found.
25 February 2020
A volunteer (click here) has gone -or rather jumped - to great lengths to keep a locked-up area secure, for fear of the further spread of the Novel Coronavirus.
A Chinese officer has been recorded resorting to a martial arts stunt to prevent a villager from entering the area locked down due to a coronavirus flare-up.
Footage shows a male resident pulling up to the red ribbon indicating a no-go zone, wishing to cross the blockade, “just for a short while, to go home and have a look”, but he had to step back and drive away on his bike when a volunteer security guard screams and performs a backflip, before thrusting his leg in a spinning kick....
Plenty of information about the coronavirus in Europe. Italy is having some reports though.
Earlier in the day, (click here) authorities of several European countries, namely Austria, Croatia and Switzerland confirmed first cases of people infected with the coronavirus in their countries.
The death toll from coronavirus infection in Italy has risen to ten with the addition of three more victims in the north of the country, Angelo Borrelli, head of National Civil Protection Service, said Tuesday....
And, of course, more information about Trump's Deep State.
25 February 2020
By Tim Korso
Earlier, (click here) US media reported that the country's intelligence community had informed some American lawmakers about alleged attempts by Russia to meddle in the 2020 presidential election, despite Moscow on numerous occasions denying such interference in US domestic affairs.
US President Donald Trump stated during his visit to India that American intelligence agencies have not briefed him on any information regarding alleged meddling attempts by Russia in the 2020 presidential election. He also suggested that the reports of Moscow's support for Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders might have been initiated by members of the Democratic Party, who want him to lose the primaries....
It's Trump's very own Deep State. It never gets better no matter who is at the helm. Trump is always grieving over the Deep State. Poor, poor Donald is always so misinformed.
Last week President Donald Trump appointed Richard Grenell, (click here) a former US ambassador to Germany, as Acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to oversee the nation's 17 spy agencies and organisations. CIA veterans Philip Giraldi and Larry Johnson explain Trump's move and the liberal media's outrage over it.
Though US career diplomat Richard Grenell is the first openly gay person to assume the highest intelligence post, the liberal media has somehow fallen short of rejoicing at this fact, and has raised an uproar over what they call Trump's "disastrous choice".
"Widely disliked by diplomats and journalists, but loved by his boss who's made clear that 'he values loyalty above all', the appointment of the nation's new top intelligence official is a sign that Trump's purge is spreading fast", Vanity Fair wrote on Monday.
As the former Ambassador was about to fill the boots of his predecessor, Joseph Maguire, the MSM presumed that the US president sacked the latter over the 13 February briefing on Russia's alleged "interference" in the 2020 elections held by Maguire's appointee at the House Intelligence Committee. According to ex-CIA Director John Brennan, the dismissal of the chief spy amounts to a "virtual decapitation of the intelligence community"....
The Associated Press: Evidently, the quarantined woman broke out of the hospital was tracked down and returned to custody. No one around her is wearing masks either.
who broke out of the hospital on Feb. 7 after learning that she would have to spend 14 days in isolation instead of the 24 hours doctors promised her, is escorted by a bailiffs form a court after a session in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Feb. 17, 2020.
Moscow - A Russian woman (click here) aboard the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan has become the first Russian citizen to be diagnosed with COVID-19, Russia said Monday.
The woman on the ship will be transferred to a hospital and receive treatment, the Russian Embassy in Japan said in its Facebook posting. It wasn’t immediately clear whether that would be in Russia or Japan.
The virus, which emerged in central China in December, has infected 454 people on that particular cruise ship. Globally, the virus has infected more than 71,000 people, killing 1,770 patients in mainland China and five others elsewhere. China has instituted strict lockdown measures on over 60 million people in central Hubei province.
In January, Russia reported two confirmed cases of COVID-19 and hospitalized two Chinese citizens, who have since recovered.
Since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, the Russian government has halted most of its air traffic to China. All trains connecting Russia to China and North Korea have been suspended and the Russian land border with China and Mongolia is closed.
Moscow has temporarily stopped issuing work visas to Chinese citizens and Chinese students who had left for the Lunar New Year vacation have been asked not to resume their studies in Russian universities until March 1.
Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has said that Russia may start deporting foreigners infected with the virus.
BBC - Also reporting on trial drug being tested in USA. It is not a vaccine, it is a potential treatment. Anti-viral drug. " Acyclovir" is an anti-viral drug. It isn't like this hasn't been investigated before, there is just no vaccines for a coronavirus. Treatments have been developed. The effectiveness AGAIN depends on the health of the individual and their ability to tolerate the drugs as well as the disease.
Ireland's minister for health (click here) said the Six Nations rugby match between Ireland and Italy in Dublin "should not go ahead" due to the coronavirus outbreak in northern Italy.
Simon Harris said it was the "very clear view" of the public health emergency team that the game on 7 March should be cancelled.
He told RTE news: "It would constitute a significant risk, because a very large number of people will be travelling from what is now an affected region.
"So my department will be contacting the IRFU (Irish Rugby Football Union) in relation to this.
"I know (it will) cause a great disappointment to many, but it is important to make decisions in relation to public health above and beyond all other considerations."...
26 February 2020
A hotel in the Austrian Alps (click here) has been put on lockdown after an Italian receptionist working there contracted the virus.
Officials haven't named the hotel, but they have said it's in the Alpine city of Innsbruck. It's also not clear how long it will remain on lockdown.
Austria's Interior Minister Karl Nehammer told reporters: "No one can get in or out of the hotel to make sure that if other infected people are staying in the hotel, the virus won't be spread.
"All these measures have one purpose - to stop the virus and its spread. There is no reason to panic."
Innsbruck is the capital of the state of Tyrol, which borders Italy.
The infected woman's home was also being isolated, a state government spokeswoman told AFP.
She and her partner, both 24, had travelled to Innsbruck by car from their home in Lombardy, Italy last week.
Italy is the worst-hit European country, with 322 cases and 11 deaths.
It is rather incredible the ease with which this virus will infect health care workers who know how to protect themselves. The virus is highly opportunistic. Any source of DNA will do evidently.
The plans for the Japanese Olympics are going forward.
"Mission Impossible" filming is delayed by Paramount because of the concern for the cases in Italy.
26 February 2020
A hotel in the Austrian Alps (click here) has been put on lockdown after an Italian receptionist working there contracted the virus.
Officials haven't named the hotel, but they have said it's in the Alpine city of Innsbruck. It's also not clear how long it will remain on lockdown.
Austria's Interior Minister Karl Nehammer told reporters: "No one can get in or out of the hotel to make sure that if other infected people are staying in the hotel, the virus won't be spread.
"All these measures have one purpose - to stop the virus and its spread. There is no reason to panic."
Innsbruck is the capital of the state of Tyrol, which borders Italy.
The infected woman's home was also being isolated, a state government spokeswoman told AFP.
She and her partner, both 24, had travelled to Innsbruck by car from their home in Lombardy, Italy last week.
Italy is the worst-hit European country, with 322 cases and 11 deaths.
It is rather incredible the ease with which this virus will infect health care workers who know how to protect themselves. The virus is highly opportunistic. Any source of DNA will do evidently.
The plans for the Japanese Olympics are going forward.
"Mission Impossible" filming is delayed by Paramount because of the concern for the cases in Italy.
