New returnees from the particularly vulnerable Wuhan have landed in Germany. The virus has now reached Italy, with consequences for thousands.
- The fight against the spread of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 * has been a challenge for the global community since January 2020.
- In China, more than 2000 people (as of February 20) have died from an infection with the pathogen that triggers the lung disease Covid-19 *.
- The virus is extremely contagious.
Update of February 21, 6:53 p.m .: The 15 returns from the Chinese province of Hubei are doing well. You returned to Germany from China on Friday. Meanwhile, the number of coronavirus infections detected rose sharply in South Korea and Iran. Italy also reported an outbreak in Lombardy.
A 38-year-old was in serious condition on Friday in the intensive care unit of the Codogno hospital, authorities said. A total of six people have so far been tested positive for Sars-CoV-2, including the pregnant woman of the seriously ill. As a precaution, a quarantine was ordered for at least 250 people to prevent further infections.
The outbreak of the corona virus in Lombardy has consequences for many people. Thousands of people in Codogno and two other places - Castiglione d'Adda and Casalpusterlengo - were asked to stay at home if possible. The mayor of Codogno, where around 16,000 people live, ordered schools, bars and other public facilities to be closed.
Coronavirus infections outside of China: WHO chief concerned
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) is concerned about the increasing number of infections outside of China. "The time window to keep this outbreak under control is getting smaller," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned in Geneva on Friday.
Nevertheless, he still had hope. "But if we miss the chance now, we have a serious problem," he said. "We cannot look back one day and regret that we did not make use of this window of time."
For one, there are more infections from people who have no connection to the particularly affected city of Wuhan in China, nor have traveled. On the other hand, he mentioned the increasing number of cases in Iran and the first case in Lebanon with a connection to Iran. "When you line up these points, it's very worrying," Tedros said.
Returnees from Hubei province affected by the corona virus have arrived: "Everyone is fine"
Update of February 21, 2020, 5:23 p.m .: The 15 returnees from the Chinese province of Hubei, particularly affected by the new coronavirus, are doing well. "Everyone is fine," said Stefan Brockmann from the Baden-Württemberg State Health Office. "We were able to receive them somewhat tired, but very satisfied." According to the German Red Cross (DRK), there are four families among the returnees. In total, there are ten adults and five children. The youngest is not yet a year, the oldest five years old.
The returnees will be accommodated in a quarantine station in a hotel in Kirchheim unter Teck (Esslingen district) for the next 14 days. According to the DRK, the families stay together, the other people are accommodated individually. Your only direct contact during this time will be DRK employees who have been specially trained for this.
Update of February 21, 2020, 3:55 p.m .: With the coronavirus patient in Italy, it cannot yet be said with certainty where exactly he caught the infection. The dpa previously reported a meeting with friends as the cause of the infection. However, this is only a guess, as has now been corrected. "At the moment we do not know where the virus originated from," explained Giulio Gallera, Lombardy's health officer.
Only two coronavirus patients in Bavaria
Update from February 21, 2020, 3:07 pm: In Bavaria, only two of the originally 14 patients infected with the coronavirus are treated in the hospital. Another patient has now been discharged from the Munich Clinic Schwabing, the Bavarian Ministry of Health said on Friday.
All 14 Corona cases in the Free State were related to Webasto, the automotive supplier from Stockdorf. A Chinese colleague had introduced the pathogen during a business trip in January. Some employees were infected, and relatives also got infected in some cases.
Corona virus: Passengers expected in Germany
Update from February 21, 2020, 1:52 pm: The returnees from the Chinese province of Hubei, which was particularly affected by the new coronavirus, have landed in Stuttgart. The plane with the 15 passengers touched down at Stuttgart Airport at 1:20 p.m. on Friday. The Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Social Affairs confirmed the landing.
Coronavirus: The situation in Iran is also coming to a head
Update of February 21, 2020, 1:23 pm: According to the Ministry of Health, two more Covid-19 patients have died in Iran. "In the last few days there have been positive test results in 13 other coronavirus Sars-CoV-2 patients and unfortunately two of them have died in the meantime," ministry spokesman Kianusch Dschahnpur tweeted on Friday.
Already on Wednesday two patients in Qom died from the lung disease Covid-19 caused by the virus. It is said to be two older men who were brought to the hospital with breathing problems earlier this week. Both were found to have Sars-CoV-2. According to the local authorities, those affected have not been abroad recently and have even been outside their hometown of Qom. They also had no contact with Chinese tourists.
It was the first infection recorded in the country. Since then, special measures have been taken in Qom. All schools and universities in Qom have been temporarily closed and the Ministry of Health has sent teams of experts to the religious city 140 kilometers south of the capital Tehran. In addition, the city's nearly 1.2 million residents were asked to avoid unnecessary physical contact.
Corona virus: politician with drastic measures
Update from February 21, 2020, 12.25 p.m .: After the violent protests in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Minister of Health Sorjana Skalezka has now decided to take an unusual step.
She said she would go into quarantine with the 45 Ukrainians and 27 foreigners who had been brought to Nowi Sanzhary in central Ukraine after a stay in China, she said on Thursday evening. Citizens of the city had previously attacked the buses with the Chinese returnees with stones.
"I will spend the next 14 days with them in the same premises, under the same conditions," said Skalezka, referring to the people who had been brought to Ukraine from the Chinese metropolis of Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus epidemic , "I hope that my presence will calm people in Nowi Sanzhary and the rest of the country."
At the same time, the Minister of Health expressed her shock at "the panic and rejection" that was evident in the attacks on the Chinese returning home. "These people are our compatriots," Skalezka wrote on Facebook. "We live in the same country and have to take care of their health and safety." Most of the foreigners flown to Ukraine come from Latin America.
Coronavirus: condition of a patient in Italy deteriorates dramatically
Update from February 21, 2020, 11:58 a.m .: In northern Italy, a 38-year-old coronavirus patient is in a very serious condition in the hospital, as authorities said on Friday. The man was infected in Italy when he met a friend who had come from China. This has meanwhile been tested positive for the virus called Sars-CoV-2, wrote the Ansa news agency, citing Giulio Gallera, Lombardy's health officer. The 38-year-old infected patient is reportedly treated in isolation in the hospital in the small town of Codogno in the province of Lodi. His wife and another person were also infected and were in the hospital. The returnee from China was in the hospital in Milan.
At Codogno Hospital, doctors, nurses and other patients are tested for the coronavirus, Giulio Gallera explained. Contact persons were asked not to leave their apartments for the time being.
Update of February 21, 2020, 10:14 a.m .: The arrival of the returnees from Wuhan is apparently delayed. As the German Red Cross explains on Friday, the plane with the passengers is expected to be in Stuttgart around 1 p.m. Previously, the machines should make a scheduled stop in Paris.
The passengers are German citizens and their relatives from the Wuhan area, which is particularly affected by the coronavirus. They are said to have been abroad for a long time and to have no permanent residence in Germany. The returnees are to be examined at the airport. They are then taken to a quarantine station in the Esslingen district.
At the DRK, around 40 employees are responsible for the case. It had already operated a quarantine station in Germersheim (Rhineland-Palatinate) and is currently looking after one in Berlin.
The corona virus caused a sad incident in Munich. Two Chinese women were hostile to the coronavirus. The police took the perpetrator with them.
Update from February 21, 2020, 8.45 a.m .: The arrival of a machine in Stuttgart with returnees from the Chinese city of Wuhan, particularly affected by the new corona virus, is delayed. The aircraft with 15 people is expected to arrive around 12 noon, the German Red Cross (DRK) said on Friday. According to the plan, the travelers should stop in Paris. The authorities assume that the passengers are healthy. The health authorities are prepared for the arrival of people, said a spokesman for the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Social Affairs.
The returnees were still being examined at the airport. Then they should be brought to a quarantine station in the Esslingen district. The DRK had already operated a quarantine station in Germersheim (Rhineland-Palatinate) and is currently looking after one in Berlin.
Meanwhile, violent outbreaks have occurred in Ukraine. Dozens of protesters clashed violently with the police outside the hospital in Nowi Sanzhary on Thursday. The police dissolved crowds of people who had tried to block the access of the buses with the people who had been removed from the central Chinese metropolis of Wuhan.
The demonstrators lit several fires and broke at least three panes of the buses. Hundreds of security forces were deployed, a local AFP official said. The six buses with the 72 people who flew out of Wuhan - 45 Ukrainian citizens and 27 foreigners - arrived at the hospital despite the protests, as videos in the Ukrainian media showed.
Update of February 21, 2020, 6.49 a.m .: According to official information, another 118 patients died of the new corona virus in China - there are now 2,236 reported deaths in the People's Republic. The number of infections detected rose by 889 in one day to a total of 75,465, the health commission said in Beijing on Friday. However, experts expect a much higher number of unreported cases.
Almost half of the officially confirmed infections with the Sars-CoV-2 virus were reported from the particularly severely affected province of Hubei in central China. The rise was lower for the second day in a row after China changed the way statistics were counted again.
Clinical diagnoses of lung disease in Hubei are no longer counted as proven infections. In future, the infection will have to be confirmed by a DNA test in the laboratory. The province had only started counting diagnoses last week based on a combination of factors such as lung pictures, physical condition and epidemiological history.
Experts had previously complained that the DNA tests were often faulty and did not detect infections. By initially counting clinical diagnoses, the numbers rose rapidly. After the counting method was changed again, there was a corresponding decrease in newly reported infections on Thursday.
Coronavirus: German cruise ship passengers are flown out
All Germans remaining in Japan on board the "Diamond Princess" cruise ship are flown to Berlin on an Italian plane. As the German press agency in Tokyo learned on Friday, the departure is scheduled for Friday evening at 10 p.m. local time (2 p.m. CET).
The vessel had been quarantined for two weeks in Yokohama, Japan, due to the novel Sars-CoV-2 corona virus. A German couple from Hesse had tested positive for the pathogen and is in the hospital. Another German wants to stay in Tokyo with his Japanese wife from Munich for a few more days. The remaining six passengers from Germany travel with other Europeans by plane from Italy. The machine will first make a stopover in Berlin, it said.
Update of February 20, 2020, 7:58 p.m .: Accompanied by riots, dozens of Ukrainians from the Chinese city of Wuhan arrived in a quarantine station in central Ukraine on Thursday evening. Several panes of the buses were thrown in while driving, as live pictures on Ukrainian television showed. There was initially no information about injuries. The police had to clear a burning barricade for the convoy.
Hundreds of people had demonstrated against returning for fear of the new Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus . They were partially armed with iron bars. Stones flew. Several hundred police officers were deployed to calm the situation down. Local residents had blocked a connecting road to the quarantine station .
The quarantine station is located in a sanatorium of the Ukrainian National Guard in the village of Nowi Sanschary, almost 300 kilometers east of Kiev . The Chinese returnees arrived there in the evening. The area was completely cordoned off.
The Ukrainians had previously been flown out of Wuhan along with other nationals. 45 Ukrainians and 27 nationals from other countries were on board. All passengers must stay in the sanatorium for the next two weeks. No Sars-CoV-2 infection has been reported in Ukraine to date.
Coronavirus: New Wuhan returnees fly to Germany - state of emergency in South Korea
Update from February 20, 2020, 6:34 p.m .: The German Red Cross (DRK) is expecting a flight in Stuttgart this Friday with returnees from the Chinese city of Wuhan, which is particularly affected by the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus . The DRK is taking over the supervision on behalf of the federal government, said a spokesman for the aid organization on Thursday in Berlin . The spokesman did not provide any further information on the number of people . A spokesman for the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Social Affairs said that the health authorities are prepared for the arrival of people. At first the Southwest Broadcasting had reported about it.
According to information from the German Press Agency, the authorities assume that people are healthy. More than a dozen people are said to be flying to Stuttgart. The machine therefore comes from Paris and is expected at Stuttgart Airport in the morning. Upon arrival, the travelers are to be examined and then taken to a quarantine station in the Esslingen district.
Update from February 20, 2020, 2:45 p.m .: Several German passengers of the cruise ship "Diamond Princess", which has been quarantined up to now, are apparently to be flown to Germany soon. As Bild with reference to Health Senator Dilek Kalayci explains, an airplane is expected in Berlin Tegel on Saturday. Passengers who previously tested negative for the virus should initially remain in quarantine for 14 days.
Incidentally, the corona virus could also have a devastating effect on global passenger air traffic. An industry association made a grim forecast on Thursday.
Coronavirus: 40 worshipers infected - state of emergency in South Korean metropolis
Update from February 20, 2020, 10:57 a.m .: For fear of an uncontrolled spread of the novel coronavirus Sars-CoV-2, the residents of the South Korean city of Daegu are to stay at home for the time being. It was a recommendation from Mayor Kwon Young Jin, a spokesman said on Thursday. If possible, the residents should not go outside. Around 2.5 million people live in Daegu. South Korea's health authorities had previously reported 31 new cases of infection in the country, 30 of them in Daegu and North Gyeongsang Province in the southeast.
The number of previously confirmed infections in South Korea has thus increased to 82. 48 of the recorded cases were reported in the Daegu region. Twenty-three of the newly affected people therefore contracted a patient in Daegu. It is believed that a total of 40 of those previously tested positive for Sars-CoV-2 came into contact with the woman when they attended a Christian sect in Daegu. At first it was unclear how the woman got infected.
The corona virus has reached South Korea.
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Coronavirus: First death in South Korea - number of infected people increases dramatically
Update from February 20, 2020, 10:41 a.m .: For the first time, a person died in South Korea who was infected with the novel coronavirus Sars-CoV-2. The person was treated in a hospital in the southeast city of Cheongdo, the centers for disease control and prevention said on Thursday. The exact cause of death is still being investigated, said a spokeswoman. It was not initially known whether it was a man or a woman.
In the meantime, the number of infections in South Korea rose by 53 to 104 within a day. First, 31 new cases were reported in the morning. This week alone, more than 70 confirmed infections with the causative agent of the lung disease Covid-19, which first broke out in China, were added in South Korea.
The corona virus does not stop at Formula 1 either: In China there was already a rejection, now a German TV station has to take drastic consequences when racing in Vietnam.
Corona virus: two fatalities on cruise ship - also Munich on board
Update of February 20, 2020, 9:31 a.m .: Almost 3,000 people had to be quarantined on the cruise ship in Japan, now the first two fatalities on the ship are to be complained about. Two Japanese infected with the virus initially tested positive on the ship, and were taken to a hospital shortly thereafter. Both people died there. The two victims are said to be an 87-year-old man and an 84-year-old woman from Japan, according to the Japanese media.
Up to the previous day, 621 infections had been detected among the people on board the cruise ship. All of those affected came to hospitals. The government said the disembarkation of the approximately 3,000 people on the ship would take at least until Friday. A passenger from Munich was among the first 443 people to leave the quarantine of the cruise ship, according to RTL.
Meanwhile, the number of infected and dead continues to rise. According to official data, the number of infected people has increased by 394 people to a total of 74,576 people. Around 2,128 people are said to have fallen victim to the virus by now.
Corona virus is spreading - climax only in late February?
Article of origin from February 19, 2020: Wuhan - The SARS-CoV-2 virus, known as corona virus, appeared in the Chinese province of Wubei in early December 2019. Since then, the virus has been spreading rapidly. China is taking drastic measures to stem the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and to stop the new lung disease Covid-19 . Authorities have largely cordoned off the province from the outside world.
Chinese doctor Li Wenliang was one of the first to warn of the mysterious lung disease . However, according to his account, the Chinese police tried to silence him. The young ophthalmologist died of an infection in early February.
The number of coronavirus deaths in China has officially increased to more than 2,000. A total of 74,185 people have contracted the virus. Experts do not expect the Covid19 epidemic to stabilize until the end of April. The peak of the coronavirus outbreak could therefore probably be reached in late February. This was the result of calculations by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The travel restrictions around Wuhan were also taken into account in the peak calculation of the team around the mathematician Adam Kucharski.
Scientists are working flat out on a vaccine against the virus *. But developing a vaccine is a lengthy and tedious process that can take years.
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Coronavirus outside of China: WHO sees no reason to panic
The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes that the novel virus affects only a very small proportion of people outside of China. In Germany, 16 infections * with the novel corona virus are known. The first coronavirus cases were known in Bavaria * in connection with the auto supplier Webasto.
Over 540 people were infected with the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus on the cruise ship "Diamond Princess". After a 14-day quarantine, the first passengers were allowed on board on Wednesday (February 19). In Cambodia, the cruise ship "Westerdam" is affected by the corona virus.
Because of corona virus: Russia imposes an entry ban on the Chinese
Russia has imposed a temporary entry ban on the Chinese because of concerns about the introduction of the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus, the news agency dpa reported on Wednesday. As of this Thursday, all planned entries for work or for tourism and study purposes are affected, according to a decision by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. Russian media described the unusual step of such a "total ban" on Wednesday as unprecedented.
The Chinese government also recently took an unusual measure over an article about the corona virus. Because the opinion of a journalist from the American "Wall Street Journal" according to the Chinese government is said to have a "racist" headline, three correspondents were expelled from the country for the first time in recent history of China. Now there has been criticism of this step.
Experts believe that global expansion is possible, but advise to be calm and prudent. As with the flu and all other pathogens causing respiratory infections, washing hands, keeping a distance and having the correct cough and sneeze label is important for personal protection against infection.
The Robert Koch Institute and the Federal Center for Health Education (BZgA) have compiled all information about the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
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