The Covid Scamdemic and Resulting Fallout

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China invokes HOLOCAUST HORRORS as 40 mobile incineration ovens are deployed in Wuhan, labeled for disposal of “animal corpses”

Wednesday, February 19, 2020 by: Mike Adams

Tags: animal corpses, China, communism, coronavirus, cremation, dead bodies, deaths, Holocaust, incineration, outbreak, pandemic, Wuhan

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Image: China invokes HOLOCAUST HORRORS as 40 mobile incineration ovens are deployed in Wuhan, labeled for disposal of “animal corpses”



(Natural News) Remember 13 days ago when we warned that “cremation vans” were running 24/7 in Wuhan, China while the crematoriums were backlogged with piles of dead bodies stacked in the cremation queues?



Now China has brought in 40 mobile incineration ovens to burn and destroy what the Chinese government calls “medical waste.” As you can see in the photos below, the incineration ovens are labeled for the disposal of “animal corpses.”



The deployment of incineration ovens, combined with the grotesque violations of basic human rights now being routinely committed by China in response to the pandemic, has invoked memories of the horrors related to the Holocaust of World War II.



As reported by the UK Daily Star, these incineration ovens are built to the size of 20-foot transport containers, and each can incinerate about 30 cubic meters of material. “Reportedly the incinerators have been sanctioned for the use by the Chinese military after a test in Golmud, Qinghai in January,” says the Daily Star.






The words on the side of these incineration ovens say, “Garbage and Animal Corpse Placement Receptacle.” (Our staff reads Mandarin Chinese, so we have confirmed this.)



Each incinerator can burn up to five tons of material per day, which equates to about 16 dead human bodies or large animal bodies per unit, per day. Multiplied by the 40 incineration ovens which have now been deployed, this adds the capacity to burn up to 640 human bodies per day, even though they claim these ovens are for animal corpses and medical waste.



According to “official” Chinese government data that no one believes except the incompetent World Health Organization, daily coronavirus deaths in China are hovering around 100. It seems we are now supposed to believe China has an epidemic of dead animals that’s so large, they need 40 incineration ovens to burn animal corpses.



Chinese woman risks her life to tell the truth about communist LIES

But people inside the quarantine chaos in China are so fed up with the lies from their own government that they are risking their own lives to speak out. Check out this woman’s desperate plea from China, where she is sure to be thrown into one of the incineration ovens for recording this very video. We have confirmed she speaks with a mainland Chinese accent and pronunciation. Actually, I’ve even confirmed that myself since I can tell the difference between mainland Chinese Mandarin vs. Taiwanese Mandarin:



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A partial transcript of what she’s saying: (h/t to Zero Hedge)



Only normal citizens are suffering. The government does not care about us. We can’t buy medicine with money. We can’t go to the hospital with money.



And in Hong Kong, I support your independence. I also support Taiwan independence. Tibet and Hong Kong, I support independence.



Not a single person can speak freely. If anyone speaks about the truth, they are detained, If they decide it’s 10 years or 20 years then it’s already decided. Even lawyers are useless.



I’m gonna tell you something. 1 person’s sacrifice 2 people’s sacrifice is a sacrifice that is necessary of a revolution. I will make a sacrifice for may parents, for my family, for our free lives.



I know it is dangerous for me to speak out. But I can’t take it anymore, I cannot.



No beds, no medicine, all the news from TV is a lie.



In this evil society I can no longer keep my mouth shut. No one is willing to speak out. I am going to stand up and make a voice. We really have to resist my fellow citizens. I can’t live like this anymore.



Here’s another photo of the incineration ovens along with some crew members who will no doubt be required to move all the corpses into the incineration vessels:





(Image source: Weibo)



The next wave of lies from communist China will no doubt involve some cover story for explaining why hundreds of thousands of people have gone missing and are nowhere to be found…

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Wuhan’s new “Made in China” coronavirus pandemic hospitals are already falling apart

Tuesday, February 18, 2020 by: Ethan Huff

Tags: bad doctors, China, coronavirus, covid-19, Dangerous Medicine, falling apart, global emergency, Hospitals, infection, made in China, novel coronavirus, outbreak, pandemic, pandemic hospitals, virus, Wuhan coronavirus


(Natural News) Earlier in the month, communist China feverishly erected multiple new hospitals in Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the Wuhan coronavirus (CoVid-19) outbreak, which the regime proudly announced all took place from ground to finish in about a week. But these Made in China structures are already falling apart, as you might expect from a country with perhaps the most dismal track record of quality control in the entire world.



Video footage captured inside one of these hospitals, and shared to Twitter by a Chinese-Australian artist with a verified blue check mark, shows panels falling on the floor and water leaking everywhere as panicked workers in hardhats attempt to assess the situation.



Additional footage also shared to Twitter, in this case by a Dr. Harry Chen Ph.D., shows water pooling up all over the floor, possibly from the ventilation system up above. Dr. Chen notes that this particular facility was constructed out of bean curd, and that this built-in-five-days structure represents typical “Chinese characteristics” – meaning that it’s basically garbage quality.



In yet a third video, also shared by Dr. Chen, water is seen leaking from the ventilation system into a bucket placed right next to a hospital bed. Dr. Chen jokingly describes the monstrosity as the “little hospital that couldn’t,” and “a petri dish of positive vibes.”



“its (sic) just a fancy humidifier and it’s just the flu … go back to sleep,” he further adds sarcastically.



These displays of poor-quality “craftsmanship” coming out of the communist Chinese regime aren’t all that shocking when considering how most Made in China goods tend to bear this “stamp of authenticity.” But many people probably couldn’t have fathomed that even emergency facilities where people’s lives are on the line would be built to similar “standards,” putting both patients and staff at risk.



Listen below as Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, addresses how these so-called hospitals are actually death camps in disguise, which isn’t really a stretch when just looking at them in these videos:







Communist Chinese censorship is making it difficult for the truth about coronavirus to be known

After receiving criticism on Twitter for his “dark sarcasm” in response to these “upsetting circumstances,” Dr. Chen was defended by another user who revealed that he and others in China who want the truth to get out there without being censored have to talk this way in order to avoid punishment.



“It’s to avoid censorship,” this person wrote, adding that Dr. Chen “keeps getting banned for provocative posts. So (he) uses satire to avoid detection … he is risking his life tweeting these videos to the world.”



We already know that the communist Chinese regime has been threatening social media users like Dr. Chen with jail time for sharing information like this that make the government look really bad amid one of the worst health crises in recent history. China doesn’t even want people to know the true number of infections and deaths, let alone that these emergency facilities constructed on the fly are certifiable death traps.



It’s amazing that they haven’t completely collapsed, God forbid, due to faulty engineering. But even the persistent flow of water from unknown leaky sources poses its own unique threats, as the Wuhan coronavirus (CoVid-19) can transmit both through ventilation systems and plumbing.



“Since the virus can be present in wastewater, it doesn’t bode well for the doctors and patients here,” wrote another Twitter user about the threat of all this leaky water at Wuhan’s new hospitals.



Be sure to visit the official H.R. Report channel at Brighteon.com for more ongoing Wuhan coronavirus (CoVid-19) coverage.



You can also keep up with the latest Wuhan coronavirus (CoVid-19) news at Outbreak.news.


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CONFIRMED: CoVid-19 coronavirus found to contain unique “gain-of-function” property “for efficient spreading in the human population” … exact quote from science paper just published in Antiviral Research

Wednesday, February 19, 2020 by: Mike Adams

Tags: Alex Jones, biological warfare, bioweapons, China, coronavirus, epidemic, Frances Boyle, gain-of-function, genetically engineered, GMO, outbreak, pandemic, transmissivity, virology, virus, Wuhan




(Natural News) We now have bombshell, smoking gun evidence that the CoVid-19 “Wuhan” coronavirus was specifically engineered as an offensive biological warfare weapon, designed to target to exterminate human beings.



A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Antiviral Research (Vol. 16, April 2020) is entitled, “The spike glycoprotein of the new coronavirus 2019-nCoV contains a furin-like cleavage site absent in CoV of the same clade.”



It reveals that the CoVid-19 coronavirus contains unique features that allow it to function as a more efficient weapon system for human-to-human transmission, which helps explain why the virus has been impossible to contain (even under “quarantine” conditions, which have universally failed in China, Japan, Korea and elsewhere).



As the science authors of the paper explain in the full text, “This furin-like cleavage site… may provide a gain-of-function to the 2019-nCoV for efficient spreading in the human population.” (Emphasis added)



Further, the science paper finds that there is no known viral ancestry to the CoVid-19 coronavirus, meaning it did not evolve from nature. It was engineered, and the science paper authors also state that the virus contains elements from MERS, stating, “Before the emergence of the 2019-nCoV, this important feature was not observed in the lineage b of betacoronaviruses.”



The abstract and full PDF (paid) of the study are available through this link at ScienceDirect.com

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Quarantine isn’t enough: Wuhan coronavirus R0 is so high that even the most draconian lockdown measures can’t contain it

Tuesday, February 18, 2020 by: Ethan Huff

Tags: badhealth, badmedicine, badscience, contained, coronavirus, covid-19, draconian, global emergency, infection, infections, lockdown, novel coronavirus, outbreak, pandemic, quarantine, R0, transmission, virus, Wuhan coronavirus



(Natural News) The latest basic reproductive number (R0) estimates for the Wuhan coronavirus (CoVid-19) suggest that this thing is a whole lot more infectious than initially believed. It’s become so serious, in fact, that even communist China’s implementation of medical martial law is reportedly unable to contain it.



Some of the latest science into the outbreak reveals the number of people being infected by the Wuhan coronavirus (CoVid-19) is doubling every 2.4 days, with an R0 of between 4.7 and 6.6. If this is accurate, things are about to get a whole lot worse before they ever have the chance to get better.



A paper published in the journal medRxiv, which is associated with the British Medical Journal, suggests that quarantine and contract tracing alone “may not be effective” to fully contain the Wuhan coronavirus (CoVid-19), and that “early, strong control measures are needed.”



What these early, strong control measures might entail isn’t fully spelled out in this paper, though it does make mention of how the full closure of Wuhan changed the dynamics of other surrounding areas that have had to worry slightly less about the import of new cases.



Further, the paper estimates that the growth rate of the Wuhan coronavirus (CoVid-19) has decreased from 0.29 per day to about 0.14 per day since January 30. Based on the paper’s calculations, this decreases the disease’s R0 from an earlier range of between 4.7 to 6.6, to 2.3 to 3.0.



Again, these are merely estimates, and as we’ve seen in recent days, the numbers are constantly changing. But the point is that, even with the most draconian of containment measures, the infection rate is still alarmingly high and there’s really no stopping this virus until it eventually runs its course.



Part of the problem is that the Wuhan coronavirus appears to be able to infect others even while still in incubation, meaning infected patients transmitting it to others aren’t necessarily even showing symptoms themselves. Listen below as Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, discusses this on an episode of The Health Ranger Report. (Hear more daily podcasts at Brighteon.com/channel/hrreport )







Don’t be fooled: The Wuhan coronavirus (CoVid-19) outbreak is only just getting started

Despite this estimated decrease in its R0, the Wuhan coronavirus (CoVid-19) is “still rapidly growing,” according to the paper, and has spread to more than 20 different countries as of February 5. And how it will spread in these other countries in the coming days “remains to be seen.”



In other words, just because the rate of growth appears to be slowing in Wuhan doesn’t mean that the same is true everywhere else. Chances are there will be spikes in cases that begin to emerge well outside of China as the first few cases balloon into a few more cases, which in turn skyrocket, potentially.



Even with a lowered R0, of let’s say 3.0, this still means that the Wuhan coronavirus (CoVid-19) will spread to three additional people for every one person it infects, which means exponential growth. Unless its R0 can be brought down to zero or below, the Wuhan coronavirus (CoVid-19) is only just getting started, so don’t let your guard down quite yet.



The jury is also out as to how deadly the Wuhan coronavirus (CoVid-19) really is, with the official numbers not necessarily matching what’s actually happening.



“If the value of R0 is as high in other countries, our results suggest that active and strong population-wide social distancing efforts, such as closing down transportation system(s), schools, discouraging travel, etc., might be needed to reduce the overall contacts to contain the spread of the virus,” the paper concludes.



More coronavirus news is available at Outbreak.news.



You can also catch other episodes of the H.R. Report at Brighteon.com.


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Japan activates global suicide mission, begins releasing thousands of potentially cross-infected cruise ship passengers onto the streets of Tokyo starting TODAY

Wednesday, February 19, 2020 by: Mike Adams

Tags: badhealth, badmedicine, badscience, big government, coronavirus, Diamond Princess, incompetent, infections, Japan, outbreak, pandemic, stupid, Wuhan




(Natural News) Japan’s global suicide mission has now begun. Hours ago, Japan’s Ministry of Health (which should be called the “Ministry of Suicide”) authorized the release of thousands of cruise ship passengers onto the streets of Tokyo, even though previous testing has found that up to 26% of tested people on the ship are infected with the coronavirus.



The justification for the release was that passengers spent “14 days in quarantine” on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship. However, as we have repeatedly pointed out, the Diamond Princess “quarantine” was a non-quarantine quarantine because passengers were sharing the same air and suffering from cross infections of the airborne coronavirus pathogen. It’s not a quarantine if you’re sharing air with other people in the middle of an airborne pathogen epidemic, but apparently the health officials in Japan have no clue how infectious disease really works.



Just yesterday, for example, 79 new cases of coronavirus were confirmed among the passengers, even as those very same passengers were being prepped for de-boarding, reports Channel News Asia.



“An additional 79 cases of coronavirus have been reported aboard the infection-ravaged Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in Japan — as an expert called the lack of disease control on the vessel ‘completely chaotic,'” reports NYpost.com.



The number of infections confirmed on the ship has skyrocketed to a new total of 621, even as Japan is releasing other passengers from the so-called “quarantine.” As NYpost.com reports:



Meanwhile, in a scathing video uploaded to YouTube Tuesday, Kentaro Iwata, an infectious disease expert at Kobe University, who spent time on board the Diamond Princess, said the vessel’s infection control measures leave much to be desired.



“The cruise ship was completely inadequate in terms of the infection control,” Iwata said. “There was no distinction between the green zone, which is free of infection, and the red zone, which is potentially contaminated by the virus.”



“I was so scared of getting COVID-19 because there’s no way to tell where the virus is,” he said. “No green zone, no red zone, everywhere could have the virus.”



He said he also observed crew members, some wearing full protective gear and some not, wandering around and potentially cross-contaminating different areas of the vessel. Some ate lunch with their medical gloves on and used their phones while wearing their protective suits, he recalled.



Insane. But this is what we get from incompetent government health officials, which seems to be a universal phenomenon.



A giant floating incubation vessel is not a “quarantine”

The thousands of people being released by Japan are now moving through the Tokyo airport, boarding commercial flights and potentially contaminating thousands of other people in airports and cities all across the world. It’s already too late to stop them. By the time you read this, hundreds of such passengers are probably already in the air, flying toward dozens of major cities around the world.


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CDC official warns U.S. hospitals: Be ready for “surge” of coronavirus patients in America

Thursday, February 20, 2020 by: Mike Adams

Tags: CDC, coronavirus, Hospitals, infections, outbreak, pandemic, Public Health, virus


(Natural News) It yet another bombshell message from the CDC, a top CDC official named Dr. Anne Schuchat is openly warning U.S. hospitals to get prepared for a wave of coronavirus infections.



“A larger spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus across the U.S. could overwhelm emergency rooms and cause supply shortages of some crucial medical supplies,” warns CNBC (stating the obvious). CNBC also cites Dr. Schuchat:



“This is the time to open up your pandemic plans and see that things are in order,” Dr. Anne Schuchat, a top official of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…



“For instance,” she continued, health-care providers need to plan for a “surge at a hospital, the ability to provide personal protective equipment for your workforce, the administrative controls and so forth that you might put place in a health care setting.”



CNBC adds, “Schuchat’s warning came as U.S. and world health officials increasingly sound the alarm of a possible pandemic outbreak of the deadly new coronavirus that has killed more than 2,100 people in China in the last seven weeks.”



NYU hospital preparing for coronavirus transmission in NYC

According to that same story, NYU Langone Health in NYC “has designated the new virus as a ‘level 1’ priority.” From the story:



NYU is also preparing for a level 2 or 3 scenario, she added, where there is transmission in the city and it begins to impact hospital operations. The health-care system has implemented a conservation plan and medical supplies, especially respirator masks, are only given to staff as needed, she said.



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All this is on top of CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield recently telling CNN that, “This virus is probably with us beyond this season, beyond this year, and I think eventually the virus will find a foothold and we will get community-based transmission.”



You can watch Dr. Redfield state that in the following video interview with CNN:







In that video, he also explains:



“Our whole issue right now is as I said, aggressive containment to try to give us more time, it’s gonna take one to two years to get that [vaccine] developed and out, to prepare the health systems, to be able to be flexible enough to deal with the potential second major cause of respiratory illness…”



He also adds, “Right now there’s no evidence to me at all that this outbreak is under control, it’s definitely not controlled…”



So then, why is the entire lying mainstream media deceiving the American public and telling people this pandemic is completely under control and will never arrive in America and there’s nothing to be concerned about?



The answer, of course, is that they’re lying. The media now seems to be far more concerned with caring for people’s feelings rather than their safety. So making sure nobody is afraid has now become far more important to the media than making sure people are prepared.



It’s a recipe for an outbreak of real panic once the masses figure out they’ve been lied to all along.



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CDC official warns U.S. hospitals: Be ready for “surge” of coronavirus patients in America

Thursday, February 20, 2020 by: Mike Adams

Tags: CDC, coronavirus, Hospitals, infections, outbreak, pandemic, Public Health, virus


(Natural News) It yet another bombshell message from the CDC, a top CDC official named Dr. Anne Schuchat is openly warning U.S. hospitals to get prepared for a wave of coronavirus infections.



“A larger spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus across the U.S. could overwhelm emergency rooms and cause supply shortages of some crucial medical supplies,” warns CNBC (stating the obvious). CNBC also cites Dr. Schuchat:



“This is the time to open up your pandemic plans and see that things are in order,” Dr. Anne Schuchat, a top official of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…



“For instance,” she continued, health-care providers need to plan for a “surge at a hospital, the ability to provide personal protective equipment for your workforce, the administrative controls and so forth that you might put place in a health care setting.”



CNBC adds, “Schuchat’s warning came as U.S. and world health officials increasingly sound the alarm of a possible pandemic outbreak of the deadly new coronavirus that has killed more than 2,100 people in China in the last seven weeks.”



NYU hospital preparing for coronavirus transmission in NYC

According to that same story, NYU Langone Health in NYC “has designated the new virus as a ‘level 1’ priority.” From the story:



NYU is also preparing for a level 2 or 3 scenario, she added, where there is transmission in the city and it begins to impact hospital operations. The health-care system has implemented a conservation plan and medical supplies, especially respirator masks, are only given to staff as needed, she said.



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All this is on top of CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield recently telling CNN that, “This virus is probably with us beyond this season, beyond this year, and I think eventually the virus will find a foothold and we will get community-based transmission.”



You can watch Dr. Redfield state that in the following video interview with CNN:







In that video, he also explains:



“Our whole issue right now is as I said, aggressive containment to try to give us more time, it’s gonna take one to two years to get that [vaccine] developed and out, to prepare the health systems, to be able to be flexible enough to deal with the potential second major cause of respiratory illness…”



He also adds, “Right now there’s no evidence to me at all that this outbreak is under control, it’s definitely not controlled…”



So then, why is the entire lying mainstream media deceiving the American public and telling people this pandemic is completely under control and will never arrive in America and there’s nothing to be concerned about?



The answer, of course, is that they’re lying. The media now seems to be far more concerned with caring for people’s feelings rather than their safety. So making sure nobody is afraid has now become far more important to the media than making sure people are prepared.



It’s a recipe for an outbreak of real panic once the masses figure out they’ve been lied to all along.



Listen to this podcast, and you can now download all the MP3 files for these podcasts at the new website Pandemic.news. (At link)

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Coronavirus infections EXPLODE in South Korea as spread accelerates across Iran, Lebanon and Israel

Friday, February 21, 2020 by: Mike Adams

Tags: China, coronavirus, infections, Japan, outbreak, pandemic, South Korea



(Natural News) Literally overnight, CoVid-19 coronavirus infections doubled in South Korea to 204, representing an alarming explosion of human-to-human transmission outside of China and indicating that China was just the first wave of an accelerating global pandemic. (See Pandemic.news for focused updates, podcasts, videos and science documents.)



With the number of non-China infections more than doubling in the last week, we are now seeing exponential growth in infection numbers across Asia, even as China is desperately manipulating its own numbers to try to present an image that it has the coronavirus under control. Notably, China just brought in 40 new mobile incineration ovens to dispose of “animal corpses” in its fight against the virus. And by “animals,” they of course mean people (whom they treat as animals all the time anyway).



The big realization in all this is that the coronavirus pandemic won’t be limited to China as has been falsely asserted by nearly every “mainstream” media outlet over the last several weeks. Sustained, human-to-human transmission is already out of control in many additional nations, including South Korea.



There is no conceivable scenario now where this stop spreading across Asia. Anyone telling you this is “contained” is either lying or ill-informed.



North Korea, by the way, flat-out refuses to report any numbers at all, and Indonesia’s government had previously announced they wouldn’t be conducting any coronavirus testing because the test kits were too expensive.



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Confirmed infections have now spread to Lebanon, Egypt, Israel, Belgium, Finland, Cambodia, Spain and Sri Lanka, among other nations. Although the numbers from those nations are currently small, they will of course explode as additional testing identifies more people who are already infected. (Remember, “official” numbers don’t count people who haven’t yet been tested.)







“Cured” patients exhibit a second surge of the virus after another 10-day incubation period

Meanwhile, patients in China who have been “cured” and sent home are starting to show a second surge of the virus after an additional 10-day incubation period. This means people who have recovered and are sent home can then become spontaneous super spreaders yet again, without any apparent explanation yet understood by present-day doctors and epidemiologists.



This horrifying fact is being covered all across Asian media today, including on Yahoo News Taiwan: (translated)



According to the People’s Daily, the district of Wangjiang Jinyuan in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, who lives in five 3rd floors of Wuhan pneumonia confirmed patients recovered, went home to quarantine, in 10 days the patient and their families have not been out of the door, in addition to wearing masks, gloves to walk a specific channel to the fixed-point hospital re-examination. On February 19th, the patient’s retest results were nucleic acid positive, medical institutions in the same evening, immediately picked up the patient and his family for further verification and isolation.



In other words, she was cured and sent home, then later suffered another outbreak of the coronavirus in her own body, once again testing positive for the virus as a kind of “second wave” of infection.



So far, this fact is completely unknown to the entire “mainstream” media in the United States.



Right now, you have advanced knowledge of the coronavirus outbreak that’s coming to North America. What will you do with this knowledge?



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10 Italian towns in lockdown over coronavirus fears

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Ella IDE

,AFP•February 21, 2020


Rome (AFP) - Authorities in northern Italy on Friday ordered the closure of schools, bars and other public spaces in 10 towns following a flurry of new coronavirus cases.



Five doctors and 10 other people tested positive for the virus in Lombardy, after apparently frequenting the same bar and group of friends, with two other cases in Veneto, authorities said at a press conference.



Over 50,000 people have been asked to stay at home in the areas concerned, while all public activities such as carnival celebrations, church masses and sporting events have been banned for up to a week.



Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said "everything is under control", and stressed the government was maintaining "an extremely high level of precaution".



Streets in the towns were deserted, with only a few people seen abroad, and signs showing public spaces closed.



In Casalpusterlengo, a large electronic message board outside the town hall read "Coronavirus: the population is invited to remain indoors as a precaution".



The first town to be shuttered was Codogno, with a population of 15,000, where three people tested positive for the virus, including a 38-year old man and his wife, who is eight months pregnant.



Three others there have tested positive to a first novel coronavirus test and are awaiting their definitive results.



Codogno mayor Francesco Passerini said the news of the cases "has sparked alarm" throughout the town south of Milan.



The 38-year old, who works for Unilever in Lodi, was in a serious condition in intensive care.



- 'Extremely worried' -



He had dined earlier this month with a man who had visited China in January, and had later shown flu-like symptoms, but has since tested negative for the virus, Italian media said.



A football friend of his, the son of a bar owner in Codogno, has also tested positive, along with three regulars at the bar.



The three, all of whom are retired, live in the small town of Castiglione d'Adda. The mayor there said the locals were "extremely worried" about the spread of the deadly disease.



Some 250 people were being placed in isolation after coming into contact with the new cases, according to the Lombardy region, and 60 worker at Unilever have been tested for the virus.



Trenord regional railway said its trains would no longer be stopping in three stations in the affected area.



The head of the Veneto region, Luca Zaia, said a 78 and 67-year old, from the village of Vo' Euganeo, at the foot of the Euganean Hills near Padua, had tested positive.



He said "a sanitary ring" would be created around the village, where public spaces would be closed.



Three other cases of the virus in Italy are being treated in isolation at the Spallanzani Institute in Rome.



The outbreak of the so-called COVID-19 illness which began in December has killed more than 2,200 people and infected more than 75,500 in China.



Over 1,150 people have been infected and eight have died across 26 other countries, according to the World Health Organization.


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59 Hong Kong police quarantined after meal with virus colleague

AFP AFP•February 21, 2020


Dozens of Hong Kong police officers have been placed in quarantine after attending a banquet with a colleague who later tested positive for the new coronavirus, officials said Friday.



The news prompted celebrations among some pro-democracy protesters, a vivid illustration of how deeply polarised the city has become after months of rallies and thousands of arrests last year.



The 48-year-old officer found to be carrying the virus had dinner on Tuesday with 59 colleagues, police said.



All have been classified as "close contacts" and ordered to undergo mandatory quarantine.



Health officials said four officers as well as the infected policeman's wife and mother-in-law showed symptoms of illness.



Protesters gathered inside a mall on Friday celebrated the news of the quarantine, with one man offering bottles of Corona beer to passersby in a wry reference to the virus.



Social media was also inundated with messages from Hong Kongers vowing to mark the occasion by drinking champagne.



Months earlier a police officer had been filmed shouting that he and his colleagues would drink champagne after the death of a student on the sidelines of a pro-democracy rally.



Friday's protest marked the seven-month anniversary of a bloody assault by club-wielding men -- some with connections to "triad" organised crime gangs -- on protesters at a train station.



Police were accused to failing to respond quickly enough to the attack, in which 40 people were hospitalised.



Officers were also filmed afterwards talking to some of the perpetrators, who were allowed to go free.



Police denied turning a blind eye and said they were busy dealing with violent pro-democracy protesters elsewhere that night.



But the incident sparked huge public anger that resonates to this day.



Hong Kong's huge pro-democracy protest movement appeared to be losing momentum at the start of the year but the COVID-19 outbreak -- which has infected 69 people and claimed two lives in the city -- has effectively ended all mass gatherings.



The protests were pushing for universal suffrage and an independent inquiry into the police.



Around 7,000 people were arrested during the protests, many facing up to ten years jail on rioting charges.


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Americans stranded at Pakistan airport after cruise ship was denied entry to multiple countries over coronavirus fears

Hunter Walker White House Correspondent,Yahoo News•February 20, 2020


A plane full of Americans and Canadians was stranded on a tarmac at an airport in Karachi, Pakistan, for several hours on Thursday after it was turned away from multiple countries due to fears of the coronavirus, according to a family member of two of the passengers.



Kelly Chrjapin, whose parents were among those on the flight, said the plane contained more than 250 people, all of whom were American and Canadian nationals who had been traveling on the cruise ship MS Westerdam. One passenger from that boat tested positive for the coronavirus earlier this month. Chrjapin said the State Department formed a task force to address the situation and that her parents were informed the plane would be flying to Amsterdam on Thursday afternoon after over seven hours in Pakistan.



The delay in Pakistan was the latest twist in an extended journey for the Westerdam passengers. Chrjapin said her parents, Victor and Karen Chrjapin, are both in their late 60s and retired. She identified her father as a former Navy officer.


“I’m in a complete panic,” Kelly Chrjapin told Yahoo News on Thursday afternoon before she received word her parents would fly from Pakistan to the Netherlands.



Chrjapin said she hasn’t heard from her parents since approximately 4 p.m. ET, when she said her mother texted that the pilot announced they were set to take off for Amsterdam.



“I have not been able to get anything back from them since,” Chrjapin said. “I assume they had to turn their phones off and went wheels up.”



While she believes the plane has departed from Pakistan, Chrjapin is still concerned about next steps.



“Now the question is getting them out of Amsterdam. That’s a whole other kettle of fish,” she said.



Chrjapin’s parents could not be immediately reached for comment.



A woman viewing the MS Westerdam cruise ship near Sihanoukville, Cambodia, earlier this week. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images )

A woman viewing the MS Westerdam cruise ship near Sihanoukville, Cambodia, earlier this week. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images )

The U.S. State Department and the Canadian government did not immediately respond to a request for comment.



A statement from the cruise ship operator Holland America released to Yahoo News late Thursday afternoon confirmed the details of the circuitous route.



“En route the flight was unexpectedly instructed by Turkish officials to turn around midway through its journey,” the statement said. “The plane stopped for refueling at the airport in Karachi, Pakistan and then departed at 2:10 a.m. for Amsterdam, where we have received approval from the Dutch Government for landing.”



Kelly Chrjapin said her parents boarded the cruise ship, which is operated by Holland America Line, in Singapore last month. According to NBT World, a government-run media outlet in Thailand, the ship had 2,257 passengers and crew members on board and left Taiwan on Feb. 4 after an earlier stop in Hong Kong. NBT reported the boat was denied entry to Thailand “as a vessel suspected of carrying passengers contracting the 2019 novel coronavirus.”



According to Chrjapin, the failed effort to dock in Thailand was part of a “series of denials” the ship faced as it attempted to travel to multiple countries.



“Thailand was one of them, the Philippines was another, and then there were six or seven ports in Japan that were scheduled. They were denied entry,” she said, adding, “Guam declined to allow them in, at which point they were just kind of floating for five days or so.”



Eventually, Cambodia began to accept some of the passengers and her parents were staying in a hotel in Phnom Penh, Chrjapin said. Initially, she said, there was a plan for the passengers to be flown from Cambodia to Malaysia before going home.



However, she said Malaysia stopped accepting the passengers when one of them, an 83-year-old woman, tested positive for the coronavirus after arriving in Kuala Lumpur from Cambodia. On Feb. 16, Reuters reported the woman was the first from the Westerdam to test positive.



Chrjapin said all the other passengers tested negative in Cambodia and that, after five days there, they were informed they would be flown out of the country on Wednesday evening. That flight, which was a charter, was scheduled to go through Istanbul and end in Detroit. Chrjapin provided Yahoo News with a photo of her parents’ itinerary for the trip.



According to Chrjapin, about halfway through the trip to Istanbul, the flight did a turnabout and landed in Karachi. She said she heard from her parents via text message shortly after noon ET on Thursday and learned they were stuck on the tarmac in Karachi.



“We’re on a tarmac in Pakistan. Help,” Chrjapin quoted her parents’ text.



Chrjapin subsequently called the State Department via a hotline for Americans in distress. She said she was initially disconnected, and directed to a voicemail box, before being sent to the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan. Someone there directed her to the consulate in Karachi. Chrjapin said she was frustrated with the State Department response, particularly because the first person she spoke to insisted the matter wasn’t “a State Department issue.”



“They were complete jerks,” said Chrjapin, later adding, “I’ve been dealing with embassies and State for four hours. … Of course this is a State issue. How is it that the emergency line at the State Department can’t do anything?”



Ultimately, Chrjapin said someone at the consulate in Karachi informed her shortly before 2 p.m. ET that a task force had been formed to address the issue. At that point, the plane had been stranded for about two hours. Chrjapin said someone with the task force told her it was unclear what would happen after the plane arrives in Amsterdam.



“They’re like, we’re working on it, we just figured out Amsterdam,” she said of the task force. “That’s all well and good, but you’ve still got people ... 200 or so are Americans. Deal with it.”



A U.S. consular official who answered a call from Yahoo News on an emergency number provided to family members was aware of the flight with Westerdam passengers bound for Turkey, but declined to answer questions about the Americans’ current location, referring queries to public affairs. White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the situation.



Chrjapin’s parents had been describing their journeys on a Facebook page. In posts on Wednesday and Thursday, Karen Chrjapin said all the passengers who were in Cambodia, other than the one woman, tested negative for the virus. Karen also described the plan to fly to the U.S. via Istanbul.



“We will have gone around the world during this trip. Good thing my hair is already completely gray,” she wrote.

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More than 500 new coronavirus cases are detected in PRISONS across China, fuelling fears about the virus's ability to spread - as Iran confirms two more deaths and Israel and Lebanon announce their first cases

At least nine Communist officials and two prison chiefs got sacked as a result

Clusters were found in multiple jails in Hubei, Shandong and Zhejiang Province

Beijing has sent out a team of investigators to Shandong to probe the situation

Epidemic has so far killed at least 2,249 people and infected more than 76,700

By TRACY YOU FOR MAILONLINE and AFP and CONNOR BOYD HEALTH REPORTER FOR MAILONLINE and STEPHEN MATTHEWS HEALTH EDITOR FOR MAILONLINE



PUBLISHED: 03:59 EST, 21 February 2020 | UPDATED: 09:41 EST, 21 February 2020




More than 500 cases of the killer coronavirus have been detected in prisons across China, fuelling fears about the infection's ability to spread rapidly in confined areas.



In response to the crisis, nine Communist officials and two prison chiefs from three provinces were sacked. Beijing has now sent out a special team to investigate the situation, which has seen guards stuck down by SARS-CoV-2 as well as inmates.



It comes as China's National Health Commission today reported 889 new cases of the never-before-seen virus. The figure is more than double the toll that was recorded the day before (394), which was the lowest in almost a month.



In other developments today to the coronavirus crisis, which has struck down almost 77,000 people worldwide and killed more than 2,200:



Iran confirmed 13 new cases of the killer virus and two new deaths, bringing its total fatalities to four – the highest amount outside of mainland China

Italy announced three new cases of SARS-CoV-2, after a 38-year-old man caught it from a friend who'd recently returned from China

Israel reported its first case of the contagious virus – a passenger who caught it on the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship, docked off the coast of Japan

Lebanon's Minister of Health confirmed a 45-year-old woman has become the first case of the virus in the country, sparking fears of an outbreak in the Middle East

South Korea's prime minister said the country was in 'emergency' mode after cases quadrupled to 204 in the space of two days

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[Midnight]

BREAKING: CDC caught lying? Costa Mesa files court document to block federal relocation of 35-50 INFECTED coronavirus patients to ill-prepared facility near millions of Californians

Saturday, February 22, 2020 by: Mike Adams

Tags: California, CDC, Collapse, coronavirus, Costa Mesa, outbreak, pandemic, Travis Air Force Base, USA, virus


Image: BREAKING: CDC caught lying? Costa Mesa files court document to block federal relocation of 35-50 INFECTED coronavirus patients to ill-prepared facility near millions of Californians



(Natural News) Until two days ago, the CDC’s “official” numbers claimed 15 infections in the United States. With the return of other infected evacuees from the Diamond Princess cruise ship, that number jumped to 35. But now, we know the real number is much higher, possibly as high as 70 infected people in the United States, thanks to a court document filed by the city of Costa Mesa, California.



That document, uncovered by Fox 5 News in San Diego, is shown below. It calls for a judicial decision to block the federal government’s attempt to move 35 – 50 infected patients from Travis Air Force Base to an ill-prepared isolation facility in Costa Mesa that’s near millions of people.



But the CDC’s “official” numbers claim there are only 13 infected patients in California to begin with. Let’s see if we can unravel the numbers here…



35 – 50 infected patients being urgently moved from Travis Air Force Base

The “statement of facts” section of the document warns that “35 – 50 patients already diagnosed with the Coronavirus” are about to be relocated from Travis Air Force Base to a facility in Costa Mesa. The lawsuit document then warns, “State officials demanded to know why local emergency personnel notified City leaders at all of the plan to produce people with a deadly and highly communicable disease into the community.”



Here’s what the lawsuit document says:



Statement of Facts:



Defendants intend to relocate from 35-50 patients already diagnosed with the Coronavirus from a secure location on Travis Air Force Base, where they are isolated from population centers, to Costa Mesa, a densely population city within a county of over 3 million. (Dempsey Decl. ??2, 6-7). And they plan to do so without first determining the suitability of the facility where the individuals will be housed. The Defendants’ plan was announced at the eleventh hour, with no efforts to include local government leaders or local public health officials. (Id.). Indeed, State officials demanded to know why local emergency personnel notified City leaders at all of the plan to introduce people with a deadly and highly communicable disease into the community.







This means the CDC has been withholding the real numbers of infected patients from the public

What this lawsuit means is that the CDC has been lying about the total number of infected coronavirus patients in America.



Although the numbers are a bit hard to nail down due to the lack of information from federal agencies, the current “official” count of infections, via the CDC, is just 14 confirmed cases in the United States, with only 414 people tested.



In addition, the CDC says there are 3 people evacuated from Wuhan, China who have the virus, and 18 people evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship.



That’s a grand total of 35 people who are confirmed infected in America, according to the CDC.



But according to this map of infections in America, via NBC News, there are only 13 cases in California, with 2 recovered there. The map shows 20 cases outside California, including the 11 in Nebraska.







Added to the 35 – 50 infected patients at Travis Air Force Base as described by the lawsuit above, this seems to indicate there are actually 55 – 70 infected people in America that we know of so far, at least if we’re crunching the (somewhat confusing) numbers correctly.



Is Travis Air Force Base running out of space for infected patients?

As you ponder the confusing numbers, ask yourself this question: Why are infected patients being urgently moved out of Travis Air Force Base in the first place?



The only logical answer, of course, is that Travis Air Force Base has run out of isolation beds. And they need to make more space for more infected patients.



So they’re rushing to transfer up to 50 of these infected patients to Costa Mesa, much to the total surprise of the city officials there who are (understandably) freaking out.



And the facility in Costa Mesa is entirely inadequate for this purpose, they say, likely resulting in the spread of coronavirus infections into the Costa Mesa community, according to the concerns of city officials there.



So someone at the federal level is in a sudden hurry to make more space at the Air Force base, and they’re now “exporting” infected patients to other communities in California while lying about everything, deceiving the American public and the people of California.



You know the rest of this story, because we’ve already seen how it plays out on the Diamond Princess. And no, it’s not a happy ending.



Possibly 70 infected people in America, and the CDC has only tested 414 out of the entire country?

With the CDC stating they’ve only tested 414 people in the entire country — which seems absurd, but that’s what they’re claiming — and the State of Hawaii now explaining they’ve tested exactly zero people for coronavirus (story coming tomorrow on that), we seem to have arrived at a rather bizarre juncture in America where the CDC has only tested 414 people but as many as 70 might have been confirmed for the virus.



Yet we’re still being told the “official” number is only 35.



It’s all starting to feel a little bit like Wuhan, isn’t it? Fudged numbers, failure to test a sufficient number of people, total denial about any break in containment, a complete lack of reliable coronavirus testing kits, incompetent government officials… the only difference between the USA and China now seems to be a matter of timing. What happened to Wuhan first will soon happen in Honolulu, then San Diego, then the entire West Coast and so on.



But no government in the world seems willing to tell the truth at any level, which means the coronavirus will never be contained, because controlling the narrative isn’t the same as controlling the virus.



It makes us wonder: When will the CDC actually admit the outbreaks in America are already out of control and beyond containment?



Listen to my full podcast about why the “Coronavirus Day of Reckoning” is fast approaching: At link

[J.J.Gibbs]

Samsung Factory in South Korea Closes for Two Days After Coronavirus Case Surfaces


A Samsung factory located in Gumi, South Korea, has closed for a minimum of two days after a case of the coronavirus surfaced on Friday; Samsung is the world’s number-one smartphone producer.



One of Samsung’s smaller factories that is located in Gumi, South Korea, confirmed a case of the coronavirus, leading them to shut down their entire facility for a minimum of two days. Samsung is the world’s number-one producer of smartphones. That being said, the factory in Gumi accounts for a very small portion of the company’s production.



In addition to closing the factory, Samsung announced that they’re taking other precautionary measures, stating, “The company has placed colleagues who came in contact with the infected employee in self-quarantine and taken steps to have them tested for possible infection.” Nationwide, South Korea is dealing with well over 400 confirmed cases of the virus.



February 22nd, 2020|News


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[OmegaMan]

Internet SHUTDOWN begins in Wuhan, China to stop the spread of truth and hide the severity of the outbreak from the world

Saturday, February 22, 2020 by: JD Heyes

Tags: badhealth, Censored, Censorship, China, Collapse, communism, Communist Party, internet, Internet shutdown, journalists, Orwellian, outbreak, pandemic, speech police, Tom Cotton, Tyranny, Wuhan coronavirus


(Natural News) During an interview Friday, former U.S. Army infantry officer, combat vet, and current U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton reiterated his view that the Chinese government is not being transparent about the severity of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.



He told Fox News host Laura Ingraham that Beijing’s Communist leaders were not updating the rest of the world on what Chinese doctors and scientists were seeing regarding the virus.



“I don’t disagree that China’s scientists and doctors can, in some cases, be world-class, and they can be professional,” he said. “However, they have sitting next to them at every level of government a minder from the Chinese Communist Party,” said Harvard Law-educated Cotton, as reported by Breitbart News.



“And I do not have any confidence in those party apparatchiks allowing China’s scientists or their doctors to speak freely to anyone outside of China, especially officials in the United States government,” he added.



Cotton is a member of the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence committees, so you could say that when it comes to data on China, he’s pretty much up to speed.



And while he’s certainly trustworthy enough, there are other sources making similar claims about Chinese government opaqueness regarding details about the virus.



The Epoch Times reported this week, for instance, that Chinese authorities have begun shutting down the Internet, which, of course, makes it even more difficult for any information to get out.



“The Internet connection in my home was cut off for several days. I kept on calling the mayor’s hotline, but nobody is taking care of us,” said one resident of Wuhan City, the epicenter of the virus, according to the Times. (Related: U.S. now admitting coronavirus has broken containment beyond China.)



The paper added:



Since Feb. 11, more and more Wuhan residents reported that their home internet connections were down. Wuhan authorities have issued strict quarantine measures to contain the outbreak, including allowing only one person per household to leave their homes.



The Chinese-language Epoch Times (CET) spoke with several Wuhan residents and found that some neighborhoods, where there are large numbers of reported COVID-19 virus infections, have had their internet cut off.



This happens all the time in China

Analysts and commentators say they believe Chinese authorities are doing this in order to restrict Netizens’ ability to freely discuss what’s going on with the outbreak in their own country — especially in the city of 11 million where the virus began.



Thus far, the Times reported, since the outbreak began in December some 70 percent of officially reported cases are from Wuhan City.



A number of people interviewed by the CET said their residential areas began broadcasting messages over loudspeakers that were installed on lamp posts that Internet connections would be cut off beginning the evening of Feb. 10.



“Where I am, it’s close to the makeshift hospital at the Wuhan International Expo Center,” said one resident whose connection was shut off Feb. 11, along with neighbors who live nearby.



“It looks like everyone in our community lost their Internet connection,” he added.



Others confirmed that their connections were shut off around the same time and, as of February 21, had yet to be restored by the government.



Such tactics are used very often by the Chinese Communist government to hide the severity of information about emergencies from citizens and the world, Gu He, an observer of Beijing’s censorship, told CET.



“As early as 2009, the Chinese government cut off the Internet in the whole Xinjiang region, [and confined it] to a local area network for 312 days,” Gu said. “It uses this method to control people’s speech.”



Cotton also noted on his Senate website that the Chinese government has also expelled journalists.



“The Chinese Communist Party is complaining about newspaper headlines while the Chinese people suffer and die from coronavirus,” he said recently in response to a Wall Street Journal report that China booted three of its reporters.



See the latest information on the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak at Pandemic.news.

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[OmegaMan]

CONFIRMED: CoVid-19 coronavirus found to contain unique “gain-of-function” property “for efficient spreading in the human population” … exact quote from science paper just published in Antiviral Research

Wednesday, February 19, 2020 by: Mike Adams

Tags: Alex Jones, biological warfare, bioweapons, China, coronavirus, epidemic, Frances Boyle, gain-of-function, genetically engineered, GMO, outbreak, pandemic, transmissivity, virology, virus, Wuhan


Image: CONFIRMED: CoVid-19 coronavirus found to contain unique “gain-of-function” property “for efficient spreading in the human population” … exact quote from science paper just published in Antiviral Research



(Natural News) We now have bombshell, smoking gun evidence that the CoVid-19 “Wuhan” coronavirus was specifically engineered as an offensive biological warfare weapon, designed to target to exterminate human beings.



A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Antiviral Research (Vol. 16, April 2020) is entitled, “The spike glycoprotein of the new coronavirus 2019-nCoV contains a furin-like cleavage site absent in CoV of the same clade.”



It reveals that the CoVid-19 coronavirus contains unique features that allow it to function as a more efficient weapon system for human-to-human transmission, which helps explain why the virus has been impossible to contain (even under “quarantine” conditions, which have universally failed in China, Japan, Korea and elsewhere).



As the science authors of the paper explain in the full text, “This furin-like cleavage site… may provide a gain-of-function to the 2019-nCoV for efficient spreading in the human population.” (Emphasis added)



Further, the science paper finds that there is no known viral ancestry to the CoVid-19 coronavirus, meaning it did not evolve from nature. It was engineered, and the science paper authors also state that the virus contains elements from MERS, stating, “Before the emergence of the 2019-nCoV, this important feature was not observed in the lineage b of betacoronaviruses.”



The abstract and full PDF (paid) of the study are available through this link at ScienceDirect.com:

 More including videos and charts here at the link

[OmegaMan]

CORONAVIRUS DEATHS OUTSIDE CHINA SPIKE AS WHO TEAM VISITS WUHAN

South Korea cases surge 8-fold in 4 days to 433

Zero Hedge - FEBRUARY 22, 2020 33 Comments

Coronavirus Deaths Outside China Spike As WHO Team Visits Wuhan

IMAGE CREDITS: STR/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES.



Summary:



Italy confirms second death, 12 towns on lockdown, more than 30 cases confirmed

Japan cases triple in a week to 121

Chinese scientists find virus in urine

Experts propose 27 day quarantine, say 14 days likely not long enough

Cases outside China go exponential

WHO team visits Wuhan; will give Monday press conference

Iran reports 10 new cases, deaths climb to 5

San Diego says 200 under ‘medical observation’

Young woman infected five relatives without ever showing symptoms

South Korea cases surge 8-fold in 4 days to 433; country reports third death

* * *



When WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros was asked on Thursday whether the COVID-19 virus was at a tipping point, he replied that the window to stop the outbreak from growing exponentially worse was rapidly closing.



Though by Friday night, it certainly seemed like that window had slammed shut. In South Korea, cases went exponential, soaring by 70% in one day.



Overnight, the country reported another rash of confirmed cases, bringing the total to 433, with 352 in Daegu, presumably members of the cult-like church where a ‘super-spreader’ worshipped. That marks an eight-fold increase in cases in just four days for South Korea, as the AP reported.



SK also reported its third death, a man in his 40s who was found dead in his apartment and posthumously tested.



South Korean health officials warned they could soon see a rash of deaths as several patients are in serious condition. Virus patients with signs of pneumonia or other serious conditions at the Cheongdo hospital were transferred elsewhere as 17 of them are in critical condition, according to SK Vice Health Minister Kim Gang-lip told reporters.



The country has followed China in imposing quarantines (everyone is too terrified to go outside anyway) and they’re hoping to prevent a national outbreak, despite a few cases in Seoul that weren’t immediately traceable to an obvious source, which is sort of discouraging.



“Although we are beginning to see some more cases nationwide, infections are still sporadic outside of the special management zone of Daegu and North Gyeongsang Province,” Kim said during a briefing. He called for maintaining strong border controls to prevent infections from China and elsewhere from entering South Korea.



In Italy, a seemingly minor outbreak went exponential. By day’s end, Italian health authorities had confirmed their first virus-related fatality, and 12 towns in Lombardy were under strict quarantine orders with residents huddling terrified inside their homes, a tableau that has become all too familiar by now. Another fatality followed overnight, as a couple more towns joined in the lockdown. This marked Italy as the first European country to see its own nationals succumb to the virus, according to Euronews.







Across Italy, there are 32 cases in Codogno, Lombardy, and seven in Veneto, according to the AFP and Sky Italia television. Many of the new cases represented the first infections in Italy acquired through secondary contagion.



In Iran, 10 more cases, and one more death, were recorded overnight. That brings the total number of confirmed cases to 28, including cases in Qom and Tehran. So far, five Iranians have died.


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[bloodbought]

Alabama FEMA facility will be used as coronavirus quarantine center

by Jack HeleanSaturday, February 22nd 2020








ANNISTON, Ala. (WBMA) — A FEMA facility in Anniston will be used as a coronavirus quarantine center for some American passengers evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced on Saturday.



The passengers were evacuated back to the U.S. from the cruise ship in Japan.


Full story at link

[schwartzie]

No need for face masks says Australia's chief medical officer, as Victoria braces for pandemic

By Jennifer Duke, Rachel Wells and Tate Papworth

February 23, 2020 — 2.41pm




The nation's chief medical officer has told Australians there is no need for face masks and to go about their normal business only hours before Victoria's chief medical officer Doctor Brett Sutton said a coronavirus pandemic may be unavoidable.



Dr Sutton took to Twitter on Sunday and in a six-part message said a surge in cases was "inevitable."



"It's clear that with local transmission in several countries that a pandemic is very likely, if not inevitable. We are working rapidly on planning and surge with our health sector," Dr Sutton said.



People wearing face masks to protect themselves from coronavirus are seen at Brisbane International Airport.

People wearing face masks to protect themselves from coronavirus are seen at Brisbane International Airport.CREDIT:AAP



"Australia absolutely has world-class healthcare but even the best healthcare in the world is challenged during pandemics, so everyone will need to work together to ensure that should a pandemic eventuate, our services can function as effectively as possible.



"We've got some of the brightest minds in the world in our health services, laboratories, research sector and emergency management sector. I'm confident we're well placed to meet the challenges ahead, whatever they might be. Hoping for the best, and planning for the worst."



NSW Chief Health Officer, Dr Kerry Chant said, that currently there was no evidence of community spread of COVID-19 in Australia however, it was prudent to plan for a situation in which this occurs.



His comments come after the country's chief medical officer Professor Brendan Murphy downplayed the risk to Australians.



Professor Murphy said there had been no community transmission of the virus in Australia, despite 22 confirmed cases.



“There is no risk to people walking around the streets, walking in the shopping centres," he said.



"The only risk is being in contact with people who have come from an area where there is high transmission or there’s contact.



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"I’m saying to people in Australia: don’t wear masks, go about your normal business."



Professor Murphy's updated advice came after a seventh passenger evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship to Darwin tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday. The virus had killed more than 2450 people and infected nearly 78,000 by Sunday afternoon.



South Korea and Japan both reported a sharp spike in cases in the past 24 hours, with the number of cases in South Korea rising to at least 556.



A consortium of institutes, including the University of Queensland, the Doherty Institute in Melbourne and the Australian Animals Health Laboratory run by CSIRO in Geelong are working closely together on developing the vaccine.



But Professor Murphy said that despite the best efforts of local researchers to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus, “there’s no realistic prospect of a vaccine in the short term.”



"It's still a long, long way away. Months away. Generally speaking, to get a vaccine from candidate to molecule test would be more than a year."



Professor Murphy said he was concerned about the increase in confirmed cases in Japan and South Korea, where there had been evidence of community transmission.



“As you know most of the cases in Japan were related to the cruise ship but they have had a number of other cases as well," he said.



“We are watching the developments in Japan and South Korea very closely because they are the biggest areas of concern outside of mainland China at present.”





Also on Sunday, the first group of Australians evacuated from China's Wuhan province to Darwin were released after two weeks in quarantine.



Professor Murphy said none of the 266 people tested positive for the virus during their quarantine, "which is fantastic news for them and fantastic news for their families".



A letter from the National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre sent on Sunday morning to about 266 Australian citizens in the Darwin camp said there had been "no cases identified with symptoms of the virus among this cohort".



"As such, the Australian government is facilitating the movement of those currently in Howard Springs back to their home cities in Australia," the letter said.



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The quarantine period ended at 5.30am on Sunday and evacuees have since been cleared to re-enter the general population.



"All individuals released from quarantine ... are deemed fit to travel by air and have not been identified as posing any risk to community health," the letter said.



There are concerns that the 14-day quarantine might not be long enough after a man in China's Hubei province showed symptoms 27 days after being exposed to the virus, but a Department of Health spokesman said the Australian government's response was "evidence-based and proportionate".



"Australian authorities continue to monitor overseas developments closely," he said in a statement, adding travel restrictions were reviewed weekly.



"Our health emergency response arrangements are flexible and scalable, and are being tailored to most effectively respond to the evolving situation."


The government has relaxed the travel ban for senior high school students flying from China to Australia to ensure they can resume their studies. This decision affects about 760 Year 11 and Year 12 students, though university students are waiting on a decision next week about whether they will be able to come to Australia.



The outbreak ramped up globally over the weekend, with northern towns in Italy on lockdown and cases in South Korea rising on Saturday to almost 450.



The World Health Organization's Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a press conference on Saturday that the increasing signs of transmission outside China "show that the window of opportunity we have for containing this virus is narrowing".


In Italy, where a dozen towns in the north of the country have gone on effective lockdown following the deaths of two people, fashion designer Giorgio Armani has chosen to hold his Milan Fashion Week runway show behind closed doors, streaming it from an empty showroom.



The Italian government also decided to cancel all sports events in Lombardy and Veneto on Sunday, a decision which will affect three Serie A football games.

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EXPERTS: The coronavirus outbreak in China is TEN TIMES worse than being officially reported

Sunday, February 23, 2020 by: Lance D Johnson

Tags: badhealth, badmedicine, badscience, biological weapons, bioweapon, chimera, coronavirus, immunity, lies, MERS, outbreak, pandemic, propaganda, respiratory infection, SARS, viral lineage, viral transmission



(Natural News) In the Chinese province of Hubei, at the heart of the coronavirus outbreak, health authorities are now reporting an additional 14,840 cases of “clinically diagnosed” coronavirus infection. The spike in infections was announced on February 12th and was ten times greater than the number of cases that were added to the total the day before. The coronavirus outbreak in China has become ten times worse than what was officially reported in the beginning. The virus continues to infect people past the official incubation period, defying the rogue quarantines initiated by the Chinese government.



Not a typical coronavirus, CoVid-19 is a weaponized genetic chimera

This is not a normal, wild-type coronavirus infection, either. A typical coronavirus infection normally causes cold-like symptoms such as fever, runny nose, cough and mild to moderate upper respiratory tract illness. This virus, however, is causing more severe symptoms (like deadly seizures) and complications in the respiratory tract (like bronchitis and pneumonia). It is transmitting from person to person with unprecedented stealth. One thing is obvious: Human immune systems have not encountered a virus like this before; the virus is spreading fast, attacking lung cells with ease, and the death rate is severely high. This coronavirus has been identified as CoVid-19 and researchers have been sequencing the virus to understand its origins and virility.



Breakthrough research published in the peer-reviewed journal Antiviral Research reveals that the CoVid-19 coronavirus contains features that allow it to spread from human to human with stealth and ease. The full text explains that “the furin-like cleavage site” can provide “a gain of function to the 2019-nCoV for efficient spreading in the human population.”



The researchers confirm that the CoVid-19 virus has no known viral ancestry. The virus did not evolve from nature. This virus is a genetic chimera, or a a single organism composed of cells with more than one distinct genotype. This strain contains property from the MERS virus and was strategically engineered as a bio-weapon. The study published sequences comparing the CoVid-19 with MERS-CoV. The two share identical S-protein sequences but they do not share any ancestry of lineage b type coronavirus. The study authors conclude that the Wuhan coronavirus is equipped to “cleave specifically viral envelope glycoproteins.” The virus was given powerful new properties to fuse with hose cell membranes and is equipped to infect lung and nerve cells with ease.



The study authors write, “Since furin is highly expressed in lungs, an enveloped virus that infects the respiratory tract may successfully exploit this convertase to activate its surface glycoprotein.” This feature had never before been identified in the lineage b of betacoronaviruses.



The Chinese, who live in heavily polluted areas, are already immuno-compromised — their lungs burdened by the constant barrage of fine particulate matter and heavy metals from polluted skies. These populations are more vulnerable because their respiratory system is already weak.



The study also finds that the current Wuhan virus contains an element from the SARS coronavirus. The study confirms that the “IFPs of the 2019-nCoV and SARS-CoV are identical, displaying characteristics of viral fusion peptides.” The study reveals that the new virus contains the ACE2 receptor, which is the precise receptor needed to opportunistically infect human beings.



As these revelations come to light, it won’t be long before health authorities admit that the coronovirus is here to stay, as one of the most potent, deadly bioweapons to ever be unleashed. The virus is already making history, affecting supply chains and the availability of medical resources.


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Don’t buy China’s story: The coronavirus may have leaked from a lab

By Steven W. MosherFebruary 22, 2020 | 11:18am | Updated


At an emergency meeting in Beijing held last Friday, Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke about the need to contain the coronavirus and set up a system to prevent similar epidemics in the future.



A national system to control biosecurity risks must be put in place “to protect the people’s health,” Xi said, because lab safety is a “national security” issue.



Xi didn’t actually admit that the coronavirus now devastating large swathes of China had escaped from one of the country’s bioresearch labs. But the very next day, evidence emerged suggesting that this is exactly what happened, as the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology released a new directive entitled: “Instructions on strengthening biosecurity management in microbiology labs that handle advanced viruses like the novel coronavirus.”



Read that again. It sure sounds like China has a problem keeping dangerous pathogens in test tubes where they belong, doesn’t it? And just how many “microbiology labs” are there in China that handle “advanced viruses like the novel coronavirus”?



It turns out that in all of China there is only one. And this one is located in the Chinese city of Wuhan that just happens to be . . . the epicenter of the epidemic.



That’s right. China’s only Level 4 microbiology lab that is equipped to handle deadly coronaviruses, called the National Biosafety Laboratory, is part of the Wuhan Institute of Virology.


What’s more, the People’s Liberation Army’s top expert in biological warfare, a Maj. Gen. Chen Wei, was dispatched to Wuhan at the end of January to help with the effort to contain the outbreak.



According to the PLA Daily, Gen. Chen has been researching coronaviruses since the SARS outbreak of 2003, as well as Ebola and anthrax. This would not be her first trip to the Wuhan Institute of Virology either, since it is one of only two bioweapons research labs in all of China.



Does that suggest to you that the novel coronavirus, now known as SARS-CoV-2, may have escaped from that very lab, and that Gen. Chen’s job is to try and put the genie back in the bottle, as it were? It does to me.



Add to this China’s history of similar incidents. Even the deadly SARS virus has escaped — twice — from the Beijing lab where it was — and probably is — being used in experiments. Both “man-made” epidemics were quickly contained, but neither would have happened at all if proper safety precautions had been taken.



And then there is this little-known fact: Some Chinese researchers are in the habit of selling their laboratory animals to street vendors after they have finished experimenting on them.



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Flying coronavirus class: Photos of American Diamond Princess passengers’ flight from hell

By Laura Italiano
February 22, 2020 | 4:55pm | Updated




These exclusive photos show the surreal, polyethylene-wrapped aerial hell suffered by 329 American passengers of the Diamond Princess cruise ship as they were flown back to the US this week — after two weeks quarantined in their cabins off the coast of Yokohama, Japan.



The passengers, each outfitted in cheap face masks, suffered through the 10-odd-hour flight in two cargo planes that had been converted into flying quarantine wards.



Their flight attendants looked like hazmat removal workers — fully suited from head to toe in sterile latex and plastic.



And worst of all, 14 of their fellow passengers were actually infected with the deadly virus, though they showed no symptoms as yet.



It was a long-awaited escape for the passengers, who had been quarantined in their cabins since the ship docked off Japan on Feb. 3, with 3,700 people on board.



The Americans were finally off-loaded from the ship on Sunday — but their ordeal was far from over.



The CDC delivered the bad news — that 14 people among them had just tested positive for the virus — as the passengers rode the bus to the airport in Tokyo.


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Coronavirus death toll in Iran is the largest outside China

By Natalie O'NeillFebruary 23, 2020 | 1:17pm



The coronavirus death toll in Iran rose Sunday to eight — the largest outside of China — prompting neighboring countries to close their borders with the Mideast nation as panic over the outbreak mounts.



The number of people currently infected with the flu-like virus in Iran also is now 43, local health Ministry officials told Al Jazeera.



Fears over the rapidly spreading illness caused authorities in Turkey, Pakistan and Armenia to close their countries’ borders with Iran and for Afghanistan to introduce travel restrictions involving it, the outlet reported.



The epicenter of the outbreak in Iran is the holy city of Qom, where travelers from China brought the virus, according to Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour. The country had reported six deaths from the virus Saturday.



At least seven of the newly confirmed infection cases are in Qom, along with four in the capital city of Tehran and two in the northern Gilan province, according to france24.com. One of the fatal cases included a man from the northern town of Tonekabon.



“A merchant from Qom, who died of the virus, used to travel regularly to China … Flights were suspended between the two countries but he used indirect flights,” Iranian Health Minister Saeed Namaki said.



In China, the death toll had reached 2,442, with 76,936 infections, Sunday as President Xi Jinping called the virus the “largest public health emergency” in nearly a century.



The first case of coronavirus in Iran was reported Wednesday.


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