In Beijing too, people wear face masks to protect themselves against the corona virus. Picture: AFP
After Wuhan, there are now new corona infection foci in another metropolis in China. Jilin, in the northeast of the country, was therefore largely closed off.
I.In China, the authorities have once again largely sealed off a metropolis due to the corona risk. The four million or so residents of Jilin in the northeast of the country can only leave the city if they have a negative corona test and are in quarantine, the administration said on Wednesday. The bus and train connections of the industrial city a good thousand kilometers from Beijing are suspended, and cinemas and fitness studios also had to close.
In the suburbs of Jilin, a new infection focus with 21 cases had become known over the weekend. The city administration called the situation “very serious”. There is a high risk of infection.
New infections had also previously been registered in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The authorities ordered all eleven million residents to be tested. In the central Chinese industrial metropolis, the novel corona virus was first detected in humans at the end of 2019. The curfew, which lasted around two months, was only lifted about a month ago.
Recently six new corona cases have been reported in Wuhan. These were residents who were already in quarantine with asymptomatic courses and have now tested positive. All six appeared in the same residential complex. These are the first cases of new infection since Wuhan lifted the curfew on April 8 after 76 days.
In Beijing too, people wear face masks to protect themselves against the corona virus. Picture: AFP
After Wuhan, there are now new corona infection foci in another metropolis in China. Jilin, in the northeast of the country, was therefore largely closed off.
I.In China, the authorities have once again largely sealed off a metropolis due to the corona risk. The four million or so residents of Jilin in the northeast of the country can only leave the city if they have a negative corona test and are in quarantine, the administration said on Wednesday. The bus and train connections of the industrial city a good thousand kilometers from Beijing are suspended, and cinemas and fitness studios also had to close.
In the suburbs of Jilin, a new infection focus with 21 cases had become known over the weekend. The city administration called the situation “very serious”. There is a high risk of infection.
New infections had also previously been registered in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The authorities ordered all eleven million residents to be tested. In the central Chinese industrial metropolis, the novel corona virus was first detected in humans at the end of 2019. The curfew, which lasted around two months, was only lifted about a month ago.
On December 31, 2019, the Chinese authorities informed the World Health Organization about an outbreak of unknown pneumonia in the city of Wuhan in the central part of the country (Hubei Province). Experts found that the causative agent of the disease was a new coronavirus, later the disease was officially named COVID-19. WHO on March 11 announced the pandemic of a new coronavirus in the world. On March 29, the State Health Committee of the PRC announced that the spread of the epidemic in the country as a whole had stopped.
BEIJING, May 10 – RIA Novosti. The 89-year-old elderly man turned out to be the newest case of coronavirus infection in Wuhan, which became the focus of COVID-19, in addition, 16 asymptomatic people were also identified in the city per day, according to a report from the Wuhan Health Committee.
No new infections were reported in Wuhan after April 4, Wuhan was recognized as a low-threat area on April 18, and the last patient with coronavirus infection was discharged from the city hospital on April 26.
However, earlier on Sunday, the State Health Committee of China announced that in Wuhan, a new case of infection has been identified over the past 24 hours, as well as 16 asymptomatic cases.
According to the Wuhan City Health Committee, the disease turned out to be an 89-year-old elderly man who suffers from hypertension and also polycystic. It is reported that after January 25, he did not leave the residential complex in which he lives. On March 17, he had a fever, chills, for 10 days the man took the medicine at home, after which the symptoms disappeared, did not seek medical help, on April 15 the patient lost his appetite, and on May 6, accompanied by the housekeeping staff, the man was taken to the hospital, where he they did a nucleic acid test, on May 7 came the test results, which turned out to be positive, on May 9 a second test also turned out to be positive, the doctors diagnosed coronavirus infection.
The test for the nucleic acid of the patient’s wife turned out to be positive, and the daughter’s test was negative, both have no symptoms. The wife was qualified as asymptomatic infected.
In the residential complex where the patient lived, 20 confirmed cases of infection with COVID-19 were previously registered, according to experts, the source of infection was most likely the previous cases.
After the man confirmed the diagnosis, the experts conducted an epidemiological investigation, during which five more asymptomatic infected were identified in a residential complex.
In total, over the past day, in 16 different areas of the city, 16 asymptomatic carriers of coronavirus infection were detected.
The Chinese authorities do not include in the general statistics of asymptomatic carriers in which the tests for nucleic viral acid are positive, but have no symptoms, and re-qualify them only when they show symptoms.
Currently, 616 asymptomatic carriers of the virus remain under the supervision of doctors throughout Hubei.
During the epidemic in Hubei, 68 129 cases of infection were detected (50 334 – Wuhan), 63 616 recovered (46 464), 4 512 died (3 869 in Wuhan).
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WashingtonOn Sunday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed that “there is a tremendous amount of evidence” that the source of the Covid-19 epidemic is a laboratory in Wuhan, China.
He told ABC that “there is a tremendous amount of evidence indicating that this is its source”, but he declined to comment on the hypothesis that its publication was intentional.
US President Donald Trump has become increasingly critical of China’s role in the epidemic, which has infected nearly 3.5 million people and claimed more than 240,000 lives worldwide.
Trump insisted that Beijing hid important information about the outbreak and demanded that it be held accountable.
News reports said that Trump has entrusted US spies with the mission of finding the source of the virus, which has been blamed for spreading it to a market in Wuhan that sells exotic animals such as bats to eat. It is now believed that the new corona may have leaked from a nearby laboratory conducting virus-related research.
Pompeo, who was director of the Central Intelligence Agency, told ABC that he agreed with the US intelligence community’s statement that is consistent with “broad scientific consensus on the issue that the virus (causing) Covid-19 is neither human-made nor genetically modified. “.
But he has gone further than Trump, citing “an overwhelming number of important evidence” that Wuhan’s laboratory is the source of the virus.
“I think the whole world can now see and remember that China has a history of transmitting infection to the world and operating non-standards laboratories,” he said.
He believed that Chinese attempts to downplay the virus amounted to “a classic communist attempt to mislead. This caused tremendous danger.”
“President Trump is very clear (in what he said): We will hold those responsible accountable,” he said.
MOSCOW, May 3 – RIA Novosti. Russian Senator Alexei Pushkov commented on the words of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that Washington has evidence that China has concealed data on an outbreak of coronavirus infection.
Pushkov emphasized that in this situation the main issue is what the American side seeks to extract from the conflict.
“Most likely, the White House needs it to achieve its internal goal – the victory of Trump in the election,” he suggested.
The MP added that in a similar way, the United States creates an “external enemy effect”.
Pompeo previously said that Beijing allegedly intentionally hid data on the spread of infection and conducted a “disinformation campaign”. According to him, there is a large amount of evidence of this, and some of them are in the public domain. The US Secretary of State added that over time, Washington will punish the “perpetrators of this.”
White House head Donald Trump has already stated that Washington is considering a version that a new type of coronavirus was created artificially in Wuhan. At the same time, the Chinese authorities have repeatedly emphasized that from the very beginning of the epidemic they took an open and responsible position regarding informing the world community about the spread of infection.
An outbreak of pneumonia of unknown origin in Wuhan became known at the end of December 2019. Scientists have established the causative agent of the disease – this is the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. In early March, the World Health Organization acknowledged its outbreak as a pandemic. According to WHO, more than 3.3 million people are infected with the virus, of which over 238 thousand have died.
(ANSA) – GENEVA, MAY 1 – WHO has reaffirmed its origins
natural coronavirus after the President of the States
United Donald Trump has re-launched the thesis that Covid-19 is
was originated in the Wuhan virology lab.
Asked by a journalist during a press conference
in Geneva, the Organization’s director of emergencies
World Health Michael Ryan repeated that “as far as
it’s about the origin of the virus in Wuhan, we’ve listened to many
scientists who studied this virus and we are sure it is
of natural origin. “” Our main goal – has
continued – it is to understand how
transmission from animal to man, or how it was
crossed the barrier between animal and human species “.
Once again, the Wuhan laboratory has returned to the forefront, with accusations persisting of China of lack of transparency and overlooking the world’s knowledge of the emerging corona virus early.
While the Chinese Foreign Ministry made it clear more than once that the ongoing investigations and research to find out the source of the virus required time and high-precision expertise, the representative of the World Health Organization in China, Godin Gallia, triggered a surprise yesterday evening.
It was announced that the Chinese authorities had rejected repeated requests by the organization to participate in investigations into the emergence of the emerging coronavirus.
Preventing global health from participating
“We know that China has already opened an investigation, but we have not been invited to participate, although we continue to submit requests to participate to the Chinese medical authorities,” the actor said in an interview with British Sky News.
He also clarified that the Chinese authorities did not allow the world body to access the documents of two virus testers in Wuhan, the epicenter of the epidemic last December.
In addition, he stressed that the organization is very interested in knowing how the virus appears in order to avoid another pandemic.
Wuhan Laboratory (archive – AFP)
The organization had announced earlier that a team of international experts led by the organization went to Beijing to assist in the investigations.
This comes amid increasing American accusations recently, as US President Donald Trump announced Friday that he had seen evidence linking Chinese Wuhan labs to the spread of the Coronavirus, but he did not specify what such evidence was.
He said in a press conference about the developments of Covid 19, that China either failed to contain the virus or left it spreading intentionally. “Yes.” He added, “It was something that could have been contained in the place of origin, very easily.”
“Not man-made”
On Thursday, US intelligence announced that it had reached the conclusion that the emerging virus that invaded the world originated in China, but it is not a human-made or genetically modified one.
“The entire intelligence community has consistently provided critical support to US policy makers and those who respond to the Covid-19 virus that originated in China,” the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said in a statement. “The intelligence services also meet with the broad scientific consensus that the Covid-19 virus is not manmade and not genetically modified,” he added.
From Wuhan, China (Archives – France Press)
It is noteworthy that the intelligence statement does not deny the possibility that the virus infiltrated wrongly from a laboratory in Wuhan, but it rejects all accusations about the possibility of manufacturing it in a laboratory.
It is widely believed among some American circles that the epidemic started from a laboratory in Wuhan, close to a meat market.
The idea that the newly created human immunodeficiency corona virus has spread since it appeared in China in December and January.
A poll published by the Pew Research Center on April 8 said that 29 percent of Americans believe the virus was made in a laboratory, either on purpose (23 percent) or by chance (6 percent).
But no evidence has been provided to support this theory, while scientists say there is nothing in the genetic makeup of the virus to suggest that it was tampered with in a laboratory.
A new analysis among more than a million children shows that vaccinations against measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox are not associated with an increased risk of autism: diagnosed cases of autism occurred in a similar number in vaccinated and non-vaccinated children. The same applies to certain diseases.
How Aponet Furthermore, an international team of researchers evaluated 138 studies on the benefits and risks of vaccinations against measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox. It has been shown that two vaccinations against measles produce 96 percent protection against the pathogens.
Due to false claims about an alleged connection between vaccinations and autism, which unsettled many parents, the scientists paid particular attention to autism in terms of risks.
Reviewing the results of two studies with 1,194,764 children showed that there was no difference in autism diagnoses between vaccinated and non-vaccinated children. Vaccinations did not increase the risk of other diseases
Two other studies with more than one million children also showed no evidence of a connection between combination vaccines against measles, mumps and rubella with inflammation of the brain, skin or intestine, Crohn’s disease, intellectual development disorders, type 1 diabetes, asthma , Hay fever, leukemia, multiple sclerosis, gait disorders and bacterial or viral infections Aponet continue.
“In terms of safety, we know from studies around the world that the risks of these diseases far outweigh those of preventive vaccines,” said the Italian epidemiologist Dr. Di Pietrantonj who led the study.
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It was to be a world reference center for science, an example of China’s commitment to international medicine and a further reason for national pride for this authoritarian superpower that proposes an alternative development model to the United States and, by extension, to the Western-style liberal democracies. But today is the center of all suspicions and the target of a virulent political dispute that threatens to cut short the rise of China and burst the globalized world through which we so happily moved until the coronavirus changed our lives.
By chance, because of fate or whatever, the pandemic broke out in Wuhan, where China has its most important virus research center. In the hills about 30 kilometers outside the city, the Wuhan Institute of Virology has a super laboratory with the world’s highest level of biosecurity (BSL-4) licensed to handle the most dangerous and deadly pathogens. Known as P4, they include Ebola and others like SARS (acute and severe respiratory syndrome), in which he specializes because he also arose in China and is ‘cousin’ to the new coronavirus, whose technical name is SARS CoV-2.
Among the gardens, and surrounded by a wire fence with security cameras every few meters, this laboratory is located in a modern building of 3,000 square meters and about five floors high connected in one of its corners to a circular tower with tinted windows. According to the France Presse agency, here is the largest virus bank in Asia, with 1,500 strains, and also another laboratory with a lower level of security (P3).
With a maximum of four, these codes determine the control measures when dealing with the most contagious viruses, such as air and water filtration, the insulating suits that researchers must wear and the management of material or biological waste. with which they work, like the guinea pigs in their experiments.
Agreement with France
This laboratory is fruit of an agreement signed between China and France in 2004, after the SARS epidemic, to combat new infectious diseases. With a budget of 300 million yuan (39 million euros) and advice from the French Government and the bioindustrial firm Institut Merieux, it was completed in 2015, approved in 2016 and inaugurated in 2017 by the then French Prime Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve.
Operating since 2018, Wuhan P4 has collaborated, among others, with the International Center for Research and Infections (CIRI) of France and the Galveston National Laboratory in Texas, since the USA also participated in its financing. In addition, she had joint projects with the Canadian Microbiology Laboratory until two Chinese scientists, Xiangguo Qiu and her husband Keding Cheng, were expelled in July 2019 for a dark incident that, according to some media in that country, could be related to espionage. scientific or even disturbing sample theft.
Wuhan P4 Laboratory. A modern building of 3,000 square meters and about five floors high connected in one of its corners to a circular tower with tinted windows.
With 37 research groups In disciplines such as epidemiology, molecular virology, immunology, and analytical microbiology for pathogens and agriculture and the environment, the Wuhan Institute specializes in bat coronaviruses. Her deputy director, the prestigious doctor Shi Zhengli, was the one who discovered that SARS, originated in 2002, came from bats in a cave in Yunnan province, whose coronavirus had mutated into civets that were eaten in a market in Canton (Guangdong) , from where it happened to the human being.
With this background and a 96% coincidence of the new coronavirus with that of bats, all eyes fell on the Huanan market in Wuhan, where wild species were also cooked, when this new epidemic broke out in China. The market was closed on January 1 and disinfected. But a study by Chinese researchers in ‘The Lancet’ already pointed out in January that the first coronavirus patient fell ill on December 1 and was unrelated to that market. And not only him, because of the first 41 cases, 13 had no ties to Huanan.
The ‘vaping crisis’
Soon conspiracy theories emerged that pointed to the P4 lab, which he has flatly denied them. Although the most prestigious international virologists, such as W. Ian Lipkin and the Spanish Luis Enjuanes, believe that the coronavirus is natural and has not emerged from a laboratory, two US media have recently delved into this idea. But not as the “perfect biological weapon” surprisingly foreshadowed by writer Dean Koontz in his novel ‘The Eyes of Darkness’, where a virus called Wuhan-400 is invented. No, suspicions now point to an accidental ‘leak’ from the laboratoryor.
This is suggested by a columnist for ‘The Washington Post’, Josh Rogin, who claims to have seen diplomatic cables from the US Embassy in China alerting in 2018 of the ‘Lack of security’ at Wuhan P4 after a visit by two of its experts. Such information has given Trump ammunition to demand explanations from China. But the Beijing regime denies this, and one of its most aggressive spokespersons, Zhao Lijiang, responds by fueling another bizarre conspiracy theory to the contrary. In his opinion, the coronavirus would have “escaped” from a US Army laboratory, which would have caused the “vaping deaths” last year, and not the electronic cigarettes, and his soldiers would have taken him to Wuhan during the Military Games held in October. Not even the prophetic Dean Koontz, the ‘literary father’ of the Wuhan-400, would have had so much imagination.
Two other risk centers near the suspicious Huanan market
In a very brief study published in Research Gate, and later deleted, a biologist and a doctor from Wuhan, Botao Xiao and Lei Xiao, warn that only 280 meters from the Huanan market is the city’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention , which has bats for study. And 12 kilometers from the market there is another laboratory, belonging to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which works with the bats that originated SARS in 2002.
Recalling the mishaps of scientists at these centers bitten by bats, who had to be quarantined because they knew the risks they were running, the study speculates that someone infected accidentally could get the disease out of there or with a flight of the animal or the virus itself. .
Although it is unlikely due to the security measures that these laboratories should have, it is not impossible. In 2004, the SARS virus ‘escaped’ from a laboratory in China and infected nine people, killing one. According to official press reports, authorities acknowledged that it was a case of negligence and five senior officials from the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention were punished.
Following the outbreak in Wuhan, the regime has ordered tighter controls on the laboratories and is preparing a new biosafety law. Alongside Wuhan’s P4 laboratory, China has another in Harbin, in the north of the country, and wants to open five to seven more until 2025. In addition, Beijing has reinforced its control over the studies by Chinese scientists on the coronavirus, especially its origin. .
