Chinese Virus

Chinese Virus www.infralive.com 29 Infra LIVE April 15, 2020 the 24 cases who had direct links to the Huanan Market. They were finally placed in quarantine. On December 27, doctors informed Wuhan health officials that a new coronavirus was caus- ing the illness. On December 30, Ai Fen, a director at Wuhan Central Hospi- tal, published a post in WeChat about the new virus and was scolded by authorities. On January 3, eight doctors of the Wuhan Central Hospital - including Li Wenliang, who died after he was infected by the virus - were arrested for “spreading false rumors.” All news about epidem- ics has to be cleared by the central government. On January 5, China's Center For Disease Control and Preven- tion officially reported the new virus to Chinese authorities and the United Nations. On January 11, China's state- owned media reported the first known death from the new virus in Wuhan. By then, more than a month had passed since the first patients with symptoms of the new virus had been admitted to Wuhan hospitals. Ms Wei, who eventually recov- ered and left hospital in January, believes she caught the infection from a toilet she shared with wild meat sellers at the market. Ven- dors on either side of her live shrimp stall caught the disease, as did members of her family. When did it start Scientists are now keen to iden- tify the so-called patient zero, which could help them to trace the source of the coronavirus, which is generally thought to have jumped to humans from a wild animal, possibly a bat. Virus might have entered human sometimes in November 2019. A recent study using 52 published GenBank sequences showed evidence of substantial genetic heterogeneity and estimated the time to the most recent common ancestor to be December 5, 2019 (95 pc confi- dence interval: November 6 - December 13, 2019) As per a report by South China Morning Post, “ According to the government data seen by the Post , a 55 year-old from Hubei province could have been the first person to have contracted Covid-19 on November 17. From that date onwards, one to five new cases were reported each day. By December 15, the total number of infections stood at 27 - the first double-digit daily rise was reported on December 17 - and by December 20, the total number of confirmed cases had reached 60.” The newspaper further said, “On December 27, Zhang Jixian, a doctor from Hubei Provincial "I did not have the strength or energy." Finally on December 16 she went to one of the city's main hospitals - Wuhan Union Hospi- tal. There, a doctor described her illness as “ruthless” and told her that several other people from Huanan had already come in with similar symptoms. As her condition deteriorated and she clung to consciousness, doctors figured out that they were dealing with something com- pletely new, and that almost all of the cases could be traced back to the seafood market. Ms Wei was one of the first 27 patients diag- nosed with COVID-19, and one of No. of Covid-19 cases in China (As on 27.03.2020) Sl Province Positive Deaths Recovered Admitted 1 Hubei 67,801 3,182 62,565 8,418 2 Guangdong 1,467 8 1,345 130 3 Henan 1,276 22 1,251 47 4 Zhejiang 1,251 1 1,225 27 5 Hunan 1,018 4 1,014 8 6 Anhui 990 6 984 12 7 Jiangxi 936 1 934 3 8 Shandong 772 7 752 27 9 Jiangsu 644 - 631 13 10 Chongqing 579 6 570 15 Total Top 10 76,734 3,237 71,271 8,700 11 Beijing 576 8 411 173 12 Sichuan 550 3 536 17 13 Shanghai 492 5 334 163 14 Heilongjiang 484 13 469 28 15 Fujian 338 1 295 44 16 Hebei 319 6 310 15 17 Guangxi 254 2 250 6 18 Shaanxi 253 3 242 14 19 Yunnan 180 2 172 10 20 Hainan 168 6 162 12 21 Tianjin 163 3 133 33 22 Guizhou 147 2 144 5 23 Gansu 136 2 125 13 24 Shanxi 136 - 133 3 25 Liaoning 134 2 124 12 26 Jilin 98 1 92 7 27 Inner Mongolia 95 1 74 22 28 Xinjiang 76 3 73 6 29 Ningxia 75 - 75 - 30 Qinghai 18 - 18 - 31 Xizang 1 - 1 - Total 11 -31 4,693 63 4,173 583 Tota l All 81,427 3,300 75,444 9,283