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Fearing Second Wave China apos;s Wuhan Ramps Up Coronavirus Tests

2021-01-03T18:25:42Z

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By XIHAO JIANG and Brenda Goh WUHAN, China, May 15 (Reuters) - Authorities in Wuhan have tested over 3 million residents for the coronavirus in April and May and aim to test all of the rest, state media said, as the city at the epicentre of the original outbreak faces the threat of a second wave of infections. Priority will go to residents who have not been tested before, and [http://www.squidoo.com/search/results?q=people%20living people living] in residential compounds with previous cases of infection, or old or densely populated estates, the official Xinhua News Agency reported late Thursday, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html Tour Quế Lâm] citing a Wuhan government meeting. Fears of a second wave just as businesses and schools reopen flared at the weekend after Wuhan reported a cluster of cases, the first since a lockdown was lifted on April 8. Those infections were previously asymptomatic - people who had the virus but had shown no fever or other symptoms. Authorities should have a clear indication of the number of asymptomatic cases once everyone in the city has been tested, Xinhua said, without giving a timeframe for that process. Reuters, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html tour du lịch quế lâm] citing an internal document to district officials, reported on May 11 that the city planned to conduct the tests for the rest of its 11 million residents over just 10 days. On Friday in open-air plazas, Wuhan residents waited patiently in long queues for [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] their turn to take the test. "I think it's necessary," said Wuhan resident Tong Zheguang, 32. "There's a possibility of a recurrence of the epidemic." Jiang Liandi, 70, said: "Of course I'm a little bit worried. I'm also afraid there will be new infections." Wuhan has detected more than a dozen asymptomatic infections per day in recent days. Some experts say the mass testing is unprecedented in scale, and shows the level of concern. Others say the sheer size of the operation is bound to lead to errors. The city conducted 1.79 million coronavirus tests from April 1 to May 13, according to Reuters calculations based on daily reports published by the city's health commission. If Xinhua's report that 3 million tests have been conducted since April also uses figures from the health commission, that would suggest up to 1.2 million tests were administered on May 14 alone. But the health authority said late on Friday, without elaborating, that 72,791 tests had been conducted on May 14. That was up from 67,026 tests on May 13 and the second-highest total since it started publishing such data on Feb. 21. PREVENTING A REBOUND Recent outbreaks in the northeasterly Heilongjiang province and Jilin city have contributed to fears of other fresh outbreaks in China. On Friday, the mainland reported four new confirmed cases for May 14, the National Health Commission (NHC) said in a statement on Friday. All were locally transmitted. "The epidemic situation is now fragmented domestically, but the task of preventing a rebound of the epidemic remains arduous," Zeng Yixin, a vice minister at the NHC, told a news conference. "The epidemic situation abroad is still severe and complex, and the pressure to defend against the outside continues to increase," Zeng added, referring to cases of citizens returning from abroad infected with the virus. China has stopped foreigners entering as a precaution against imported infections. Zeng also said some COVID-19 vaccines were set to complete their second-phase clinical trials in July. Confirmed cases in mainland China stand at 82,933 and the death toll at 4,633. China does not include people who have been tested and found to be asymptomatic carriers in its tally, and does not publish a cumulative number of asymptomatic cases. (Reporting by Xihao Jiang, Brenda Goh, Engen Tham, Wang Jing, Lusha Zhang and Ryan Woo; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore, John Stonestreet and Kevin Liffey)

Coronavirus Behaving Differently In China apos;s Northeast Clusters ...

2021-01-01T21:29:54Z

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BEIJING, May 20 (Reuters) - The novel coronavirus is behaving differently in patients in northeast China who have contracted it recently compared with early cases, indicating it is changing as it spreads, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html Tour Quế Lâm] a prominent doctor said. China, which has largely brought the virus under control, has found new clusters of infections in the northeastern border provinces of Jilin and Heilongjiang in recent weeks, raising concern about a second wave. Qiu Haibo, an expert in critical care medicine who is part of a National Health Commission expert group, said the incubation period of the virus in patients in the northeast was longer than that of patients in Wuhan, the central city, where the virus emerged late last year. "This causes a problem, as they don't have any symptoms. So when they gather with their families they don't care about this issue and we see family cluster infections," Qiu told state broadcaster CCTV in a programme broadcast late on Tuesday. Patients in the northeastern clusters were also carrying the virus for longer than earlier cases in Wuhan, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] and they were taking longer to recover, as [http://www.wonderhowto.com/search/defined/ defined] by a negative nucleic acid test, he said. Patients in the northeast also rarely exhibited fever and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html Tour Quế Lâm] tended to suffer damage to the lungs rather than across multiple organs, he said. He said the virus found in the northeastern clusters was probably imported from abroad, which could account for the differences. He did not say where he though they might have come from but both Jilin and Heilongjiang border Russia. China reported five new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, down from six a day earlier. Four of the new cases were local transmissions and one was imported by a traveller coming from abroad, the commission said in a statement, compared with three imported cases reported the previous day. [http://www.wordreference.com/definition/China%27s China's] total number of coronavirus infections stands at 82,965, while the death toll 4,634. (Reporting by Se Young Lee and Jing Wang; Additional Reporting by Brenda Goh; Editing by Kim Coghill)

Thousands Of People Listen To A Rabbit apos;s apos;soothing apos; Chewing Sound

2021-01-01T08:35:15Z

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Qi Gong Student 27 Dies From apos;not Eating For 54 Days apos;

2020-12-31T18:05:45Z

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Fearing Second Wave China apos;s Wuhan Ramps Up Coronavirus Tests

2020-12-31T05:03:44Z

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By XIHAO JIANG and Brenda Goh WUHAN, China, May 15 (Reuters) - Authorities in Wuhan have tested over 3 million residents for the coronavirus in April and May and aim to test all of the rest, state media said, as the city at the epicentre of the original outbreak faces the threat of a second wave of infections. Priority will go to residents who have not been tested before, and people living in residential compounds with previous cases of infection, or old or densely populated estates, the official Xinhua News Agency reported late Thursday, citing a Wuhan government meeting. Fears of a second wave just as businesses and schools reopen flared at the weekend after Wuhan reported a cluster of cases, the first since a lockdown was lifted on April 8. Those infections were previously asymptomatic - people who had the virus but had shown no fever or other symptoms. Authorities should have a clear indication of the number of asymptomatic cases once everyone in the city has been tested, Xinhua said, without giving a [https://www.rewards-insiders.marriott.com/search.jspa?q=timeframe timeframe] for that process. Reuters, citing an internal document to district officials, reported on May 11 that the city planned to conduct the tests for the rest of its 11 million residents over just 10 days. On Friday in open-air plazas, Wuhan residents waited patiently in long queues for their turn to take the test. "I think it's necessary," said Wuhan resident Tong Zheguang, 32. "There's a possibility of a recurrence of the epidemic." Jiang Liandi, 70, said: "Of course I'm a little bit worried. I'm also afraid there will be new infections." Wuhan has detected more than a dozen asymptomatic infections per day in recent days. Some experts say the mass testing is unprecedented in scale, and shows the level of concern. Others say the sheer size of the operation is bound to lead to errors. The city conducted 1.79 million coronavirus tests from April 1 to May 13, according to Reuters calculations based on daily reports published by the city's health commission. If Xinhua's report that 3 million tests have been conducted since April also uses figures from the health commission, that would suggest up to 1.2 million tests were administered on May 14 alone. But the health authority said late on Friday, without elaborating, that 72,791 tests had been conducted on May 14. That was up from 67,026 tests on May 13 and the second-highest total since it started publishing such data on Feb. 21. PREVENTING A REBOUND Recent outbreaks in the northeasterly Heilongjiang province and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html tour du lịch quế lâm] Jilin city have contributed to fears of other fresh outbreaks in China. On Friday, the mainland reported four new confirmed cases for May 14, the National Health Commission (NHC) said in a statement on Friday. All were locally transmitted. "The epidemic situation is now fragmented domestically, but the task of preventing a rebound of the epidemic remains arduous," Zeng Yixin, a vice minister at the NHC, told a news conference. "The epidemic situation abroad is still severe and complex, and the pressure to defend against the outside continues to increase," Zeng added, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] referring to cases of citizens returning from abroad infected with the virus. China has stopped foreigners entering as a precaution against imported infections. Zeng also said some COVID-19 vaccines were set to complete their second-phase clinical trials in July. Confirmed cases in mainland China stand at 82,933 and the death toll at 4,633. China does not include people who have been tested and found to be asymptomatic carriers in its tally, and does not publish a cumulative number of asymptomatic cases. (Reporting by Xihao Jiang, Brenda Goh, Engen Tham, Wang Jing, Lusha Zhang and Ryan Woo; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore, John Stonestreet and Kevin Liffey)

UPDATE 1-Slowly But Steadily China Strives To Make Widespread...

2020-12-31T01:31:20Z

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By Brenda Goh and Min Zhang SHANGHAI/BEIJING, May 13 (Reuters) - Beijing resident Wang Yukun was happy to comply in April when the construction firm he works for told him he'd need to take a test for the novel coronavirus before he could come back to work, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html tour du lịch quế lâm] even though he was at low risk of having the disease. "My company arranged it and covered the test fee. The process was less time-consuming than I imagined," he said, recalling how he got his negative result the next day. "I think everyone should be tested as a matter of personal health." While coronavirus tests can be difficult to obtain in many countries, China is rapidly expanding their availability and affordability, enabling the masses - not just frontline workers, people from [http://www.glamour.de/content/search/?SearchText=hard-hit hard-hit] areas or the sick - to get tested. China is able to produce 5 million test kits a day, the country's industry ministry said last month. While China has not tallied how many daily tests are being carried out nationally, its capacity is far greater than other countries including the United States, which has conducted around 300,000 tests daily on average in recent days, according to the non-profit COVID Tracking Project. Even South Korea and Germany, hailed for tested widely, are currently able to conduct up to 30,000 and 120,000 tests a day, respectively. Major Chinese cities and provinces have published lists of hundreds of hospitals and clinics now authorised to perform tests and are expanding laboratory capabilities to allow people to obtain their nucleic acid test results in a few hours. Some local governments have added the tests to basic medical insurance schemes, helping to cover costs which range from 60-270 yuan ($8.50-$38). The easy access has helped firms, schools and entertainment providers to reopen after widespread testing. Hosts of popular Chinese singing competition, Singer 2020, invited 251 audience members to record a live show last month after testing them. It is also laying the groundwork for [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html Tour Quế Lâm từ Hà Nội] mass testing efforts, should the need arise. Wuhan, the epicentre of China's coronavirus outbreak, plans to conduct nucleic acid testing across the city of 11 million after a cluster of new infections emerged, sources said. TESTING UNEVEN, VOLUNTARY China began pushing for widespread testing in April as concerns about the potential asymptomatic patients spreading the virus rose. Since April 13, each Chinese province has been required to provide daily reports on their virus testing efforts, and a stringent nationwide regime of screening, testing and quarantine has seen case numbers fall sharply since peaking in mid-February. Even so, China has refrained from making testing mandatory for all people. Daily, [http://sportsrants.com/?s=country-wide%20testing country-wide testing] data is not published, and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] the ramp up of testing capability has been uneven. Hubei, Guangdong, Zhejiang and Heilongjiang, which have a combined population of over 267 million, are together able to conduct at least 321,000 tests a day, according to statements they made in April and May. Beijing has 67 labs capable of processing 48,000 tests a day. But other less well-off provinces including Yunnan and Guangxi are playing catch-up, opening new labs in recent weeks. And with testing compulsory only for certain categories of people, decisions are mainly left to companies or individuals. A source from a Hunan-based state-owned steel mill that employs around 80 people said they were initially asked to take a test only if they lived near a confirmed case. However, colleagues who travel outside the province are now asked to take a test before they return to the office. Still, everyone who wants to get tested is being encouraged to do so. Chinese e-commerce giants Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and JD.com allow people to book appointments via their widely used platforms, and companies often waive the fees for workers. One taxi company based in Guangzhou sent all 14,000 of its drivers for tests at the request of the government. "This given to the drivers for free," said Kuang Yali, head of Guangzhou Baiyun Car Rental Group's publicity department. "This is to give the drivers assurance, and to also put passengers at ease." ($1 = 7.0816 Chinese yuan renminbi) (Reporting by Brenda Goh in Shanghai and Min Zhang in Beijing; Additional Reporting by Cheng Leng and Roxanne Liu in Beijing, Josh Horwitz in Shanghai, Josh Smith and Sangmi Cha in Seoul, Shanghai and Beijing Newsrooms; Editing by Lincoln Feast.)

Green Or Red Light: China Virus App Is Ticket To Everywhere

2020-12-30T21:12:02Z

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Privacy concerns surrounding the use of technology to fight the coronavirus weigh less heavily in China than in Europe To enter many offices, restaurants, parks or malls in China nowadays, people must show their status on an app that determines whether they are a coronavirus threat. There is often a moment of tension before opening the app on arriving at a location. A green light lets you in anywhere. A yellow light could send you into home confinement. The dreaded red light throws a person into a strict two-week quarantine at a hotel. Such controversial use of technology has raised alarm in Europe as countries including Britain, France and Switzerland look into launching their own apps to trace infections. But use has mushroomed across China, where the government keeps a close eye on the population and collects troves of personal data. Many Chinese people say they are happy to cooperate for the greater good. "We are in a special context with this epidemic, so divulging my movements doesn't bother me," said Debora Lu, a 30-year-old Shanghai resident. "Human life is more important." - Travel pass - There is more than one tracking app in China. An app by the State Council, China's cabinet, uses GPS locations shared by telecommunications companies -- the kind of data sharing that might not be permissible in Western democracies. Tracking apps allow authorities to look back at someone's travel history in the previous 14 days and see if they visited areas considered high risk for [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html Tour Quế Lâm từ Hà Nội] COVID-19 It allows authorities to look back at someone's travel history in the previous 14 days and see if they visited areas considered high risk or were exposed to anyone with COVID-19. The app appears to have had some glitches. The health code of many foreigners in China inexplicably turned yellow one day in April. When an AFP reporter encountered a similar issue more recently, the app turned green again after he turned it off and on several times. Other applications do not use GPS data but rely on a host of alternative information. The capital Beijing has a "Health Kit" program that displays whether people have taken a train or plane, passed a road checkpoint into the city or have been tested for the virus. Police, health authorities and neighbourhood committees that are ubiquitous in the communist-ruled country feed information into the software. Otherwise, all the apps basically work in the same way. After downloading the app, users enter their name, identity card number, telephone number and sometimes a photo. The program then gives the person a [http://www.thefashionablehousewife.com/?s=coloured%20health coloured health] code. The apps have become a necessity for travel in China, to book train or plane tickets or enter many public places, though not all establishments require them, such as supermarkets. - Giving up privacy - Beijing's city government insists the apps "are only used in the fight against the epidemic" and have access to just surnames and the last two digits of ID numbers. A driver scans a QR code to register information before entering a community in the border city of Suifenhe, in China's northeastern Heilongjiang province "There is a difference between Chinese and Western culture," said Cui Xiaohui, a professor at the big data analysis and AI research centre at the University of Wuhan -- the city where the virus first emerged late last year. "Most Chinese people are ready to sacrifice a little bit of their private life if it is really for their health," Cui said. Li Song, a 37-year-old actor, agrees. "We are already super-connected and there is no debate on the use of geolocation," said Li, a Shanghai resident whose app was red when he returned from a trip to France and turned green once his two-week quarantine ended. It is not so simple in European democracies. The Swiss government's original plans to roll out an app were thwarted by parliament, which decided it needed a proper legal basis to press ahead. If approved, the Swiss app will be optional and no personal data or location information will be used, the government says. In France, the StopCovid app being developed would allow users who become sick to anonymously alert people they may have come across. It would not use GPS location technology. Britain is also trialling a new phone app to identify localised outbreaks. "China doesn't have specific laws or regulations yet on the protection of personal data," said Zhou Lina, a professor specialising in data protection at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. But the country has other legislation, including a cybersecurity law passed in 2017, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html Tour Quế Lâm] that partially covers the issue and curbs abuses by companies online. These laws would not stop authorities from accessing personal data however, said Jeremy Daum, senior research fellow at Yale Law School's [http://en.search.wordpress.com/?q=Paul%20Tsai Paul Tsai] China Center, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] noting that police have "enormous power" to collect information. "Government access to information is not held to the same standards and the law assumes that internal checks are sufficient to stop government abuses," Daum said.

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2020-12-30T21:11:46Z

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