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China hit by a new wave of coronavirus? Doctors say it's harder to cure

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China seems to be hit by a new wave of coronavirus.  People in the northeast of the country can only leave the house for strictly necessary shopping.  This time it would be a form of the virus that has mutated.  The symptoms of the infection appear later and the disease is more difficult to cure.  Authorities imposed containment measures on the affected area.


Chinese officials have imposed quarantine restrictions on two cities in northeast China's Jilin province.  Jilin is part of a larger province in the Dongbei region - home to more than 100 million people.  Health authorities have raised the alert in the area, writes express.co.uk.

 About 40,000 residents of Jilin and Shulan were tested for coronavirus after officials were alerted to a possible new outbreak.


 In Jilin, authorities stopped all major transport links to and from neighboring cities until further notice.  In Shulan, all villages and residential complexes were closed after a similar outbreak of COVID-19 cases last week.


 Residents are allowed to leave their homes only for essential reasons, but not more than two hours, once every two days.  However, delivery services have been largely shut down, and anti-fever drugs are banned from pharmacies to prevent people from hiding their symptoms.


 Schools, public places and public transport have been closed.  Children can only play outside if they wear masks, and health care workers have returned to protective equipment, writes Bloomberg.

 Strict measures have raised concerns, as people believed the nation's worst epidemic was over.  The fear spread to nearby areas, although no cases have been officially reported in those places.


 The virus in the new outbreak has mutated


 The new virus that hit northeast China is behaving differently from the one in Wuhan, and researchers say it has undergone mutations.  Patients in China's new outbreaks appear to be carrying the virus for a longer period of time and need a longer recovery time.  In addition, the symptoms of the disease are felt more than two weeks after infection, say Chinese specialists, which makes it difficult to detect new cases. 


 However, it seems that patients rarely have a fever, and the virus affects only the lungs, not the other organs as is the case with the form discovered in Wuhan.  Moreover, it is believed that the new form of coronavirus is actually exported from abroad, the analysis of the strain of the new form of the virus resembling that of Russia.

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Beijing closed two markets on Friday and postponed resumption of primary school classes following the discovery of three new cases of COVID-19 in the city after two months in which no new cases of coronavirus were confirmed in the Chinese capital.  


The first country affected by the new coronavirus at the end of last year, China has meanwhile managed to slow down the epidemic considerably, with only a few new cases of disease being reported daily in recent weeks, most of them among people returning from abroad.

 But a case of COVID-19 of unknown origin was confirmed in Beijing on Thursday, followed by two more on Friday.  The last case of COVID-19 confirmed before them dates from mid-April.  From the beginning of the epidemic until then, a total of 597 cases of COVID-19 and 9 deaths have been confirmed in Beijing, agerpres.ro reports.


 The last two contaminated people are employees of the Meat Research Center.  One of them had recently visited the eastern city of Qingdao.  Two markets in Beijing where these two people were were completely or partially closed on Friday and will be disinfected.

Authorities also decided to postpone the resumption of schooling for three primary classes until an indefinite date, after it was initially agreed that schools would reopen on Monday.  Pupils in the Chinese capital have gradually returned to school since the end of April, after three months of forced vacation and distance learning.


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The pandemic that took over 250,000 lives in just four months and contaminated over 3.7 million earthlings turned everything upside down!  On Monday, May 4, schools in Germany opened their doors.  But the traditional noise during breaks did not resound in the hallways.  The children obeyed the rules imposed by the COVID-19 terror.

 Before the pandemic, school and high school courtyards resounded with the merry laughter of children.  German Chancellor Angela Merkel has ordered schools and high schools to open on May 4, after closing their doors in early March.

But the children discovered a rigid environment, in which the rules imposed by the measures to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus put play, jokes and childhood in the background.  The 10th grade students at the Schillerschule in Ettlingen have been preparing for exams since last week.  On Monday, May 4, the little ones from the gymnasium and primary school also showed up at the same school.

The hallways of the school were marked with yellow stripes and posters with strict instructions were mounted on the walls: keeping a distance of 1.5 meters, using face masks, gloves and regular hand washing.  


According to Deutsche Welle, only children in the final grades were able to go to school on May 4, to avoid the congestion of educational institutions.  The benches for two students were used for one child and the whole school is subjected to a strict disinfection ritual performed at three key times of the day: in the morning, at noon, between shifts and in the evening.  At the entrance to the classrooms, pumps with alcohol-based disinfectants were installed.

The fear in the souls of parents who send their children to school is indescribable.  And in China, primary and secondary schools opened their doors on April 27.  Even high school students were able to return to campuses on April 27, and students will resume classes on May 11.  The rules for distancing and preventing the spread of the new coronavirus are strictly observed.  In primary school, parents made children's one meter long sticks to be worn as "wings" on the back that would force other classmates not to get closer than a meter.

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China may be able to launch a vaccine against SARS-Cov-2 by the end of the year, a Chinese government agency announced on social media on Saturday.


The vaccine - developed by the Beijing Institute of Biological Products and the Institute of Virology - was administered to more than 2,000 people in phase 2 clinical trials, the Public Asset Management and Supervision Commission (SASAC) said.

 According to a message dated May 29, broadcast on the Chinese social network WeChat, the vaccine could be marketed as early as the end of this year or at the beginning of 2021.


 The two institutes that developed the vaccine have links to the Sinopharm pharmaceutical group, which in turn is controlled by SASAC.


 According to SASAC, the Beijing Institute of Biological Products is able to produce 100-120 million doses per year.

 Five vaccines are currently being tested on humans in China.

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U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for the coronavirus, he announced this on his personal page on social media.


Johnson mentioned in a video that he has "mild symptoms" of coronavirus, including fever and "a persistent cough." Johnson is the first world leader found to be infected with the virus. 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel decided to be under self-quarantine after her doctor was found infected with the coronavirus. She has undergone two tests that were confirmed negative, but there are awaiting results for the third test.

Johnson and Merkel said that they will continue to work from home, being self-isolates.


"Over the last 24 hours I have developed mild symptoms and tested positive for coronavirus," Johnson said via Twitter. "I am now self-isolating, but I will continue to lead the government's response via video-conference as we fight this virus. Together we will beat this."


If Johnson would not be able to accomplish his official duties, his role would be temporarily done by Dominic Raab, the U.K.'s foreign secretary and first secretary of state.


On the same day, some hours earlier the British health minister Matt Hancock, announced on his Twitter page that he is self-isolating at home with mild symptoms after he has tested positive for coronavirus.

The U.K. currently has over 12,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus, and 580 people have died from COVID-19, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. 


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The measures undertaken by various countries to put people under stringent lockdowns to stop the spread of the coronavirus have experienced an unforeseen and unique benefit. The outbreak has, at least in part, contributed to a noticeable drop in pollution and greenhouse gas emissions in some countries.


“Since the lockdown: Venice's canals have become crystal clear. Italy's coasts have dolphins coming nearer and nearer. Japan now has deer roaming free in the streets, and Thailand: the same with monkeys. China has record-breaking pollution cuts. The Earth has already begun showing signs of amazing things that are happening from the absence of human pollution. What if- and hear me out..- what if the entire human population used this as an opportunity to restart society on a greener, more environmentally conscious foot. What we're seeing in the span of a couple of days is amazing. A pipe dream.” Gina Mayer

The drastic measures enforced by China during the coronavirus outbreak have slashed deadly air pollution, potentially saving the lives of tens of thousands of people, a Stanford University researcher said.


Klopp said the pandemic could make companies and governments realize that other threats to humanity, including climate change, could be the most devastating and harmful.

"As we move to restart these economies, we need to use this moment to think about what we value," she said. "Do we want to go back to the status quo, or do we want to tackle these big structural problems and restructure our economy and reduce emissions and pollution?"


Now we must realize the harmful impacts we made to our planet are the deadliest one, we must understand that we have to stop pollution and finally start being friendly to our planet.

Is the pandemic virus a sign to stop humans actions against planet?

Let’s think about this one more time.

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