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Chinese Police Force Family Into Coronavirus Quarantine
Chinese Police Force Family Into Coronavirus Quarantine WorldViralMedia 14 Views • 5 years ago

⁣In this cell-phone footage, validated by AP, officials in hazmat suits forcibly evicting a man and a woman from their apartment, followed by a man resisting eviction and eventually being carried out in Kunshan, China, Monday, Feb. 3.

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READ MORE: In the video, the people can be seen being dragged away by officials in protective suits.

Jiangsu Communication Broadcasting Station, an official provincial media outlet, on Wednesday published an article with photos of a woman and a man, who appeared to be wearing the same clothes as the people in the video, being questioned by local law enforcement officials in protective suits.

The article said the two, both using the family name Dong, had returned to their home in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, from Hubei Province, of which Wuhan is the capital and where the coronavirus epidemic has been the most severe.

According to the article, they traveled despite being required to quarantine themselves at home, and on Feb. 3 they were taken away by local epidemic prevention personnel.

Provinces and cities across China are requiring anybody who comes from Hubei province to self-quarantine for 14 days. Experts believe that's how long it could take for symptoms to appear.

The death toll on mainland China from the coronavirus outbreak has now reached 811, surpassing the number of deaths caused by the SARS pandemic of 2002-03, Chinese officials said Sunday.

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is believed to have killed 774 people and sickened nearly 8,100 in China and the special administrative region of Hong Kong.

The commission reported that new coronavirus infection cases dropped Saturday for the first time since Feb. 1, to 2,656, for a total of 37,198.

Millions of people remain under lockdown in Hubei, the landlocked province at the center of the coronavirus outbreak where residents are complaining of food shortages.

Among the new fatalities are a U.S. citizen in Wuhan, China — the epicenter of the outbreak — officials at the American Embassy in Beijing said Saturday.

The embassy said that the 60-year-old American died Feb. 6. A Japanese citizen is also reported to have died in Wuhan of viral pneumonia, likely caused by the coronavirus, although that has not been confirmed.

Will summer’s heat kill coronavirus? Infectious disease doctor answers COVID-19 questions
Will summer’s heat kill coronavirus? Infectious disease doctor answers COVID-19 questions WorldViralMedia 14 Views • 5 years ago

Dr. Keith Armitage talks about community spread, avoiding large crowds, protective measures people can take and the death rate of the novel coronavirus, among other topics with reporter Hannah Drown. Dr. Armitage is the medical director of the UH Roe Green Center for Travel Medicine and Global Health.

Here are the questions that Dr. Armitage answers:

Community spread is now here in Northeast Ohio.
What does that imply?

Can people build an immunity? If you contract the virus
once, can you get it a second time?

What do you anticipate the situation will be like by
this time next week?

Are children with a heart condition at higher risk of
complications with coronavirus?

Why have they closed the college campuses but not
the K - 12 schools?

What percent of carriers are thought to be asymptomatic
throughout their infection?

Are people with allergies or asthma at higher risk?

Is this disease worse than the flu? Should people be
more concerned about COVID-19 than the flu?

Will the heat of summer kill the coronavirus?

When can we expect a vaccine for the coronavirus?

Should people avoid airplanes and airports?

Can you talk about major hospitals developing their
own coronavirus tests?

How important is it that more people get tested for
the coronavirus?

What precautions should older adults take?

Once a person is infected with the virus, roughly how
long does it take to recover?

What are your recommendations for hand shaking?

What's the proper way to cough?

What medications are being given to people who are
infected with coronavirus?

What should a person do if they suspect that are infected?

How long can the virus live on surfaces that we might
touch?

How are the health systems and agencies in Northeast
Ohio working together to battle the pandemic?

How can a person in the restaurant business protect
themselves?

Do you expect the death rate of the coronavirus will
change?

Where can people find information on specific
susceptibilities to the virus?

What if a person has recently recovered from another
form of respiratory illness?

What situations in particular should people avoid in order
to minimize the risk of infection?

What takes place when a person is quarantined?

How can people strengthen their immune system to
better fight the virus?

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