Popular Post OnMyWay Posted January 29, 2020 Popular Post Posted January 29, 2020 Starting on Monday, here is Subic, social media and news sources were exploding with stories about the MV World Dream cruise ship supposed to dock in Subic on Tuesday. Actually, it had already docked in Manila on Monday. It came from Hong Kong and usually has a lot of mainland Chinese. So apparently they let most of the passengers off in Manila after screening. Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority said don't worry, we will screen them too, and you don't need to worry. These cruise ship passengers go around to all the malls and tourist attractions. Residents of the freeport were pissed, as well as residents of Olongapo. Late Monday the mayor of Olongapo wrote a letter to the Chairman, saying don't let the ship dock. She kept saying don't worry, etc. So yesterday the mayor's daddy, the ex-mayor, organized a rally and march against any cruise ship arrivals until the virus threat is over. It worked! SBMA relented and the ship did not dock today. Headed for Hong Kong. If it had docked, everyone said they were going to stay home for at least the day. I heard a prediction from China that they don't expect the virus to peak until April / May. I hope that is wrong and I hope a vaccine is forthcoming! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevewool Posted January 29, 2020 Posted January 29, 2020 Emma’s Aunt ,cousins nieces and nephews are all going to Disney land Hong Kong mid February, it’s been booked many months ago but she is unsure of what to do, the rest of the family are still wanting to go as it’s all free for them . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum Support Mike J Posted January 29, 2020 Forum Support Posted January 29, 2020 1 hour ago, stevewool said: Emma’s Aunt ,cousins nieces and nephews are all going to Disney land Hong Kong mid February, it’s been booked many months ago but she is unsure of what to do, the rest of the family are still wanting to go as it’s all free for them . Hong Kong Disney has been closed due to the flu epidemic, also Ocean Park. https://www.ocregister.com/2020/01/26/hong-kong-disneyland-closes-amid-chinas-coronavirus-outbreak/ Hong Kong Disneyland has joined Shanghai Disneyland in closing indefinitely amid the coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 50, infected thousands and restricted millions from traveling to China tourist destinations during the Lunar New Year holiday. Hong Kong Disneyland announced that the theme park would be temporarily closing Sunday, Jan. 26 due to the coronavirus outbreak. “As a precautionary measure in line with prevention efforts taking place across Hong Kong, we are temporarily closing Hong Kong Disneyland park from January 26, 2020 out of consideration for the health and safety of our Guests and Cast Members,” the park said in a statement posted on its website. “We are in close contact with health authorities and the government about the situation and will announce a reopening date once they determine it is advisable.” Sign up for our Park Life newsletter and find out what’s new and interesting every week at Southern California’s theme parks. Subscribe here. The theme park resort’s three hotels — Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel, Disney Explorers Lodge and Disney’s Hollywood Hotel — will remain open. The Ocean Park theme park in Hong Kong also announced it would temporarily close on Sunday. Shanghai Disneyland temporarily closed Saturday, Jan. 25 in response to the outbreak. Coronavirus symptoms include fever, coughing and difficulty breathing. Most of the fatalities from the outbreak have been elderly patients with preexisting conditions, according to the World Health Organization The coronavirus outbreak and a fear of a spike in the infection rate has forced the closure of tourist destinations across China and put airlines and hotels on high alert during the Lunar New Year when hundreds of millions of Chinese travel domestically and internationally. Some of China’s best-known tourist attractions have been closed by the coronavirus outbreak, including the National Museum of China on Tiananmen Square, a section of the Great Wall of China near Beijing and the Forbidden City. Coronavirus cases have been confirmed outside mainland China in Hong Kong, Thailand, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, Vietnam, South Korea and the United States. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum Support Tommy T. Posted January 29, 2020 Forum Support Posted January 29, 2020 7 hours ago, OnMyWay said: I heard a prediction from China that they don't expect the virus to peak until April / May. I hope that is wrong and I hope a vaccine is forthcoming! I read that too... Also, from what I've read, don't hold your breath for a vaccine. There have been breakthroughs but estimates to actually have a safe, effective vaccine will take anything from 6 months to well over a year to develop and test. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeoffH Posted January 30, 2020 Posted January 30, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Tommy T. said: There have been breakthroughs but estimates to actually have a safe, effective vaccine will take anything from 6 months to well over a year to develop and test. I'm hopeful for something close to the 6 month time frame, an Australian laboratory has just managed to duplicate the Corona virus responsible for the outbreak (they were first and they're sending it around the world to help other research groups) and University of Queensland who have newly developed 'rapid response virus technology' which lowers the traditional time of up to several years to create a vaccine to the range of 4 to 6 months. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-29/wuhan-coronavirus-created-in-australian-lab-outside-of-china/11906390 https://www.sciencealert.com/australian-scientists-asked-to-make-coronavirus-vaccine-at-unprecedented-speed Edited January 30, 2020 by GeoffH 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bastonjock Posted January 30, 2020 Posted January 30, 2020 3 hours ago, GeoffH said: I'm hopeful for something close to the 6 month time frame, an Australian laboratory has just managed to duplicate the Corona virus responsible for the outbreak (they were first and they're sending it around the world to help other research groups) and University of Queensland who have newly developed 'rapid response virus technology' which lowers the traditional time of up to several years to create a vaccine to the range of 4 to 6 months. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-29/wuhan-coronavirus-created-in-australian-lab-outside-of-china/11906390 https://www.sciencealert.com/australian-scientists-asked-to-make-coronavirus-vaccine-at-unprecedented-speed I think that the Chinese were looking to make money from this virus , they would not give a sample of the virus to anyone ,the aussie scientists had to make their own Theres a campus not far from me ,its to the south of cambridge, its were a lot if genius from cambridge do their research ,I've worked there, it's got all sorts of viruses under very tight security, I hope they have a copy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum Support Tommy T. Posted January 30, 2020 Forum Support Posted January 30, 2020 3 hours ago, GeoffH said: create a vaccine to the range of 4 to 6 months. Or faster... Everyone must hope that will happen! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum Support Tommy T. Posted January 30, 2020 Forum Support Posted January 30, 2020 I think this may be old news, but it is the latest I have found regarding vaccines. I truly hope that what @GeoffH posted regarding fast-tracked vaccine technology in Australia will really happen: HKU’s Professor Yuen Kwok-yung says his team is working on vaccine, having isolated virus from the city’s first imported case Scientists in mainland China and the United States are also racing to produce a vaccine for the deadly new coronavirus Hong Kong researchers have already developed a vaccine for the deadly Wuhan coronavirus – but need time to test it, according to infectious diseases expert Professor Yuen Kwok-yung. Scientists in mainland China and the United States were also separately racing to produce a vaccine for the new coronavirus, which has killed more than 100 people and infected thousands. Yuen, chair of infectious diseases at the University of Hong Kong, revealed that his team was working on the vaccine and had isolated the previously unknown virus from the city’s first imported case. “We have already produced the vaccine, but it will take a long time to test on animals,” Yuen said, without giving a specific time frame on when it would be ready for patients. But he said it would take months to test the vaccine on animals and at least another year to conduct clinical trials on humans before it was fit for use. HKU researchers based it on a nasal spray influenza vaccine previously invented by Yuen’s team. Researchers modified the flu vaccine with part of the surface antigen of the coronavirus, meaning it could prevent influenza viruses as well as the new coronavirus, which causes pneumonia. The vaccine, if successfully tested, could be the answer to a disease that has infected more than 4,600 people globally and killed over 100 on the mainland, mostly in Wuhan, centre of the outbreak. Hong Kong had so far seen eight confirmed cases. From noon on Monday to noon on Tuesday, 78 more people were reported as suspected cases. Currently, 103 people were in isolation in public hospitals. Although mainland media quoted Chinese infectious diseases expert Li Lanjuan on Monday as saying a vaccine targeting the coronavirus was being developed and could be made in around a month at the earliest, Yuen expressed doubts. He said the one being developed on the mainland was likely to be an inactivated virus vaccine, which consists of a virus grown in culture that has had its infectivity destroyed by chemicals or radiation. To test the vaccine, it will have to be injected into an animal to see if it produces a good immune response, Yuen said. The vaccinated animal would then be exposed to the virus to see if is protected. “If the vaccine appears effective and safe in a number of animal species, it will go into clinical trials on humans. This takes at least one year even if expedited,” Yuen said. He was also concerned that the approach taken by the mainland side to develop a vaccine would lead to a major complication, in which people who were vaccinated might develop a more severe disease if exposed to the virus. He said such a reaction for coronavirus had been recorded in reports. Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses causing illnesses ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East respiratory syndrome (Mers) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars). Meanwhile, Xinhua reported that Shanghai East Hospital of Tongji University had urgently approved a project for the development of a vaccine targeting the novel virus. The vaccine would be co-developed by the hospital and Stemirna Therapeutics, a Shanghai-based biotechnology company. Company CEO Li Hangwen said no more than 40 days would be needed to manufacture vaccine samples, which would then be sent for tests and brought to clinics “as soon as possible”. More Articles from SCMP Chinese hospitals seek donations of masks and gowns to cope with coronavirus outbreak ‘Fake news’: Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam calls online China coronavirus claims ‘absurd’ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeoffH Posted January 30, 2020 Posted January 30, 2020 Just thought I'd leave this here 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeoffH Posted January 30, 2020 Posted January 30, 2020 The first confirmed case of the novel Corona virus in the Philippines... link below. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/wuhan-virus-philippines-confirm-first-case-12370262 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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