'' As highlighted by the director of the ECDC at the European Parliament last February 4, there are currently no elements capable of justifying a suspension of the Schengen agreement '' on free movement. This was stated by the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, at the hearing of the Parliamentary Control Committee on the implementation of the Schengen agreement regarding the emergency linked to the spread of coronavirus.
The number of confirmed infections in the coronavirus epidemic in China reached 42,638 nationwide, with nearly 2,500 new cases reported. The Chinese government has communicated this, which has brought 108 new deaths from the virus, 103 in the Hubei province alone: the most affected. The national casualty count is 1,016 deaths.
In an interview with ANSA Anthony Fauci, one of the most famous immunologists in the world, announces: "Two or three months for the first vaccine test"
The Chinese government has decided to torpedo two prominent Hubei figures for how they handled the coronavirus emergency. The BBC reports it. This includes, among others, the party secretary for the provincial health commission, the head of the commission and the deputy director of the local red cross.
The sailors on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which has been moored for days in the port of Yokohama in Japan after the discovery of people infected on board, appeal to the authorities to be disembarked. "We will all become infected soon," they write according to international media reports. "We are scared," said one of them, Binay Kumar Sarkar, speaking in Hindi and asking to be allowed to leave the ship before being infected. "The tests - he told the Business Insider - are made only to people with over 37.5 degrees of fever, they should be done by everyone, allowing the disembarkation to those who are negative".
For 2020, around 300 million euros have been made available which, through the Ice Agency, will be able to finance the support of Made in Italy . This is what Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio explains, interviewed by Il Sole 24 Ore. Regarding the coronavirus emergency, the minister underlines that "our export component above all" will allow Italy, through a targeted diversification of markets, to mitigate the phenomenon of the possible slowdown of the world economy due to that of the economy after the spread of the epidemic.
"The coronavirus epidemic" will impact world trade and trade, Italy had invested in trade to the east, it is clear that a phase is opening in which we must give maximum support to companies to overcome this moment of difficulty " added Di Maio in Skopje. "The Ice - he reiterated - has € 300 million available and will make it available to redirect exports to other markets"
The head of civil protection Angelo Borrelli, commissioner for the management of the coronavirus emergency, defends in an interview with Corriere della Sera the choice to block flights with China: "Our priority is the health of citizens and in this way we protect it Others have made different choices but this does not affect us, the guard must remain tall " . "The situation - he explains - is constantly evolving and we have planned interventions in all possible scenarios". Do you check in stations? "If there is a need, we are ready."
Meanwhile, China has begun testing on mice for a first possible vaccine against the new coronavirus 2019-nCov. The Chinese agency Xinuha reports this, citing the local portal yicai.com which reports various sources of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "Some samples of the possible vaccine were injected to over 100 mice yesterday," he read, recalling that "animal testing occurs at a very early stage in the development of a vaccine and that many more steps still need to be taken before it is ready for administration to humans ".
Foreign Minister Di Maio announces that "in these hours an Italian military plane is leaving to pick up Niccolò", the seventeen-year-old student from Grado still stuck in Wuhan. The blockade of direct flights between Italy and China "will remain until the scientific community tells us that there is a slowdown in coronavirus infections": Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said this, speaking to journalists in Belgrade. "In any case, we will continue to support our compatriots in China in any way," said Di Maio, adding that "we want to be closer to the Chinese government and people, we want to help the friendly country China."
"The second Coronavirus test carried out at the Inmi Spallanzani on the two children from Cecchignola was also negative in 2019-nCoV . The return to Cecchignola was therefore arranged with an Ares 118 vehicle and in agreement with the Military health authority to complete the surveillance period. " This was communicated by the Health Directorate of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani in Rome. According to what has been learned, the Italian woman who had been brought to Spallanzani two days ago because of conjunctivitis has also returned to Cecchignola. The test also failed on her.
New coronavirus negative test for a nine month old Chinese girl hospitalized in Prato . The ASL announced this by explaining that the baby 's family had returned from Wuhan for nine days. Her parents had taken her to the hospital emergency room yesterday, worried about the little girl with "high fever and symptoms that fall within the clinical criteria of subject at risk of contagion as well as being positive for the epidemiological criterion".
"The couple of Chinese citizens from the city of Wuhan, positive for the virus, are still hospitalized in intensive care but their conditions are improving. Their clinical conditions are stationary, with stable hemodynamic parameters. Antiviral treatment continues. The prognosis is still reserved ". " To date, 53 patients who have undergone the test for the search for the new coronavirus have been evaluated at our acceptance . Of these, 38 negative test results have been discharged." "Fifteen patients are still hospitalized - it is explained - 3 are confirmed cases (the Chinese couple currently in intensive care and the young man from the Cecchignola site), 10 are patients undergoing tests for the search for the new coronavirus awaiting results, 2 they are patients who, after being tested negative for a new coronavirus, remain hospitalized for other clinical reasons. "
Two small children in quarantine in the military city of Cecchignola in Rome were taken to the Bambino Gesù hospital . Hospitalization does not concern reasons related to Coronavirus, but other pathologies. This is a decision taken as a precaution.
Coronavirus, Spallanzani: "Children without fever, good condition"
SUMMIT AT PALAZZO CHIGI on the coronavirus emergency coordinated by Prime Minister Conte. "The government will continue to pursue a maximum precautionary line with the primary objective of ensuring the protection of the health of all citizens, as has been done so far with all the measures already taken". So a note from Palazzo Chigi at the end of the inter-ministerial meeting, for an update on the health risk related to the coronavirus and on all the various implications related to the emergency, especially on the economic and tourism front . Passengers arriving at Italian airports with a flight from Rome will be subject to health procedures to prevent the infection of the coronavirus, already in force for international flights. The measure was decided by the Civil Protection Operational Committee to solve a problem: those who arrive in Rome on an international flight and then continue to an Italian destination, remaining in fact in the transit area of Fiumicino airport, are not subjected to checks .
Coronavirus cases, the transmission of which is confirmed by people who have not recently traveled to China, could be "the tip of the iceberg" : WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus , while a "mission of international experts" "She left for China to help coordinate the outbreak response, she warned in a tweet that" there have been some worrying cases about the spread of 2019nCoV by people who have not traveled to China. " The number of coronavirus deaths touched 100 cases on Sunday, reaching 97, the highest number in a single day since the beginning of the epidemic, the BBC notes. Almost 3,500 have healed. "If the outbreak seems to have traveled at a slower pace than China abroad, Ghebreyesus has not ruled out the possibility that there may be an acceleration of the epidemic that has infected more than 40,000 people." Containment remains our goal, but all countries must use the window of opportunity created by the containment strategy to prepare for the possible arrival of the virus, "he added. Outside China there have been more than 350 infections divided into almost 30 between countries and regions. Two victims, one in Hong Kong and one in the Philippines.
THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY : Coronavirus can remain infectious on the surfaces of objects at room temperature for up to 9 days. On the other hand, it is not very resistant and just bleach-based cleaners or disinfectants based on alcohol or hydrogen peroxide are enough to kill it. To shed light is a review of studies, published in the Journal of Hospital Infection. The coronavirus incubation period could extend up to 24 days, 10 more than indicated so far. The British Independent reported it citing a study by Chinese researchers , co-signed by Dr. Zhong Nanshan, the doctor who discovered the Sars virus in 2003 and who is working as a consultant to deal with the current epidemic. Too many false negatives in China from the most popular test for the diagnosis of the coronavirus 2019-nCoV, i.e. the Nat test (nucleic acid test) for the research of the genetic material of the virus: the complaint, reported in the Chinese press and published on the network of the International Company for the study of infectious diseases, it comes from the director of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wang Chen. The problem does not concern Italy, where a control procedure is always carried out in tests, explains Andrea Crisanti, professor of infectious diseases of the University of Padua. "In Italy we do positive controls because we have a positive control", observes the expert referring to the synthetic sequence of the coronavirus genetic material obtained in his laboratory and made available to the scientific community. The possible genetic traces of a virus present in a sample can therefore be compared with the genetic material that certainly belongs to the coronavirus
The number of coronavirus deaths rises to 902. The number of victims has now exceeded that of SARS victims worldwide in 2002-2003. Sixty new cases on the Diamond Princess. In China we go back to school and work . The eight Italians from Wuhan returned to Rome, including 2 newborn babies.
IN BEIJING LIFE RETURNS . Schools and offices in the Chinese capital reopen and this will be a litmus test to measure the spread of the infection. For the first time since the beginning of the coronavirus-related emergency Xi showed himself in public with a mask and had his temperature measured . Meanwhile, Airbnb has suspended all bookings in Beijing from 7 to 29 February. Cnn reports it. "We will compensate and support all customers whose reservations have been canceled," the company said in a statement. Beijing metro and bus operators today announced that they will increase the frequency of departure of buses and subway trains, limit the number of passengers during peak hours and improve disinfection to stem the new outbreak of coronavirus pneumonia . The latest decisions of the Beijing Metro, the Beijing MTR Corporation and the Beijing public transport have come as the city of over 20 million inhabitants has anticipated the increase in passenger flows expected for today and while businesses and businesses resume work after the break. The capital is conducting daily disinfection and body temperature checks of passengers on 23 subway lines covering 405 stations.
And contagion psychosis continues to spread: in Rome I targeted a group of Chinese boys.
