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Global stocks mixed as Chinese virus spreads, oil prices drop @ 2020-01-25T16: Back Hot News
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AS CHINA MARKED A SOMBER LUNAR NEW YEAR ON SATURDAY, 15 MORE DEATHS FROM THE NEW CORONAVIRUS WERE REPORTED IN WUHAN, THE EPICENTER OF THE OUTBREAK. OTHER COUNTRIES, INCLUDING AUSTRALIA, SAID THE VIRUS HAD REACHED THEIR SHORES.
“AND I THINK THAT AS LONG AS THE VIRUS IS CIRCULATING IN CHINA AS IT APPEARS TO BE, THE REST OF THE WORLD IS GOING TO BE CONSTANTLY PINGED WITH IT, AS A RESULT OF PEOPLE TRAVELING TO AND FROM CHINA IN THE NEAR FUTURE,” HE SAID.
SCIENTISTS AROUND THE WORLD ARE RACING TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS — INCLUDING HOW IT SPREADS AND INFORMATION ABOUT ITS GENETIC SEQUENCES. RESEARCHERS HAVE ALREADY SEQUENCED SEVERAL STRAINS OF THE VIRUS TAKEN FROM INFECTED PEOPLE. THIS INFORMATION CAN HELP TO REVEAL HOW EASILY THE VIRUS CAN PASS BETWEEN HUMANS AND WHETHER THE OUTBREAK HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PERSIST. RESEARCHERS IN CHINA ARE ALSO HOPING TO STUDY WHETHER DRUGS COULD BE DEVELOPED TO FIGHT THE VIRUS.
THERE ARE A FEW POSSIBLE EXPLANATIONS FOR THE SPIKE. ONE IS THAT THE VIRUS IS SIMPLY SPREADING QUICKLY ON ITS OWN. BUT WHEN YOU』RE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING, YOU』RE ALSO MORE LIKELY TO SPOT IT. AS AWARENESS ABOUT THE VIRUS INCREASED, AND HEALTH AUTHORITIES THROUGHOUT CHINA AND IN OTHER COUNTRIES STARTED KEEPING AN EYE OUT, THEY STARTED INVESTIGATING CASES OF RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS MORE RIGOROUSLY. PEOPLE WITH SYMPTOMS MAY HAVE BEEN MORE LIKELY TO SEEK OUT MEDICAL CARE. PLUS, RESEARCHERS HAVE PUBLICLY RELEASED THE GENETIC SEQUENCES OF VIRUS THEY』VE COLLECTED, WHICH ALLOWS FOR CONCLUSIVE DIAGNOSIS.
YUAN FALTERS AS CHINA BATTLES WUHAN VIRUS
A MAMMAL IS THE MOST LIKELY CANDIDATE, SAYS CUI JIE, A VIROLOGIST AT THE PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF SHANGHAI WHO WAS PART OF A TEAM THAT IDENTIFIED SARS-RELATED VIRUSES IN BATS FROM A CAVE IN YUNNAN PROVINCE IN SOUTHWESTERN CHINA IN 2017. SARS AND 2019-NCOV ARE PART OF A VIRUS SUBGROUP KNOWN AS BETACORONAVIRUSES. FIELDWORK IN THE WAKE OF THE 2002–03 SARS OUTBREAK HAS FOUND SUCH VIRUSES ONLY IN MAMMALS, CUI SAYS. “CLEARLY THIS 2019-NCOV IS A MAMMALIAN VIRUS.”
THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL SAID THE VIRUS, WHICH ORIGINATED IN CHINA, HAD BEEN DIAGNOSED IN A US RESIDENT WHO ARRIVED IN SEATTLE FROM CHINA.
NEW CASES WERE REPORTED IN THE U.S., EUROPE, AUSTRALIA AND MALAYSIA, WITH THE VIRUS NOW ON FOUR CONTINENTS. IN CHINA, THE NATIONAL HEALTH COMMISSION SAID SATURDAY THERE ARE 1,287 CONFIRMED CASES, INCLUDING 444 NEW ONES, AND THAT 41 PEOPLE HAVE DIED. IT REPORTED 237 SEVERE CASES.
GOLD LOGS GAINS FOR DAY AND WEEK AS CHINA VIRUS STOKES GLOBAL ANXIETIES
SHAPE CREATED WITH SKETCH. CHINA CORONAVIRUS: CASES SOAR OF DEADLY NEW FLU-LIKE VIRUS
THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS, WHICH HAS KILLED AT LEAST 41 PEOPLE IN CHINA, HAS SPREAD TO MORE COUNTRIES IN THE ASIA PACIFIC, WITH AUSTRALIA AND MALAYSIA CONFIRMING INFECTIONS.
BUT THEN ON TUESDAY, DESPITE THE CONTINUED BLOCKADE IN LIBYA, OIL PRICES STARTED TO SLIP AS MARKET PARTICIPANTS BECAME JITTERY OVER THE DEADLY VIRUS IN CHINA, WHICH, ANALYSTS SAY, COULD CUT OIL DEMAND AS TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS IN AND AROUND THE AREA OF THE OUTBREAK ARE ALREADY IN PLACE.
IN ADDITION TO TOUR OPERATORS SUCH AS CHINA INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL SERVICE CORP AND UTOUR GROUP CO, THE LOCAL AIRLINE INDUSTRY WILL BE HURT BY THE SUSPENSION. AIR CHINA, CHINA SOUTHERN AIRLINES AND CHINA EASTERN AIRLINES’S SHARES HAVE TAKEN A HIT SINCE THE VIRUS OUTBREAK. AIR CHINA COULD BE MOST VULNERABLE BECAUSE OF ITS OUTSIZED EXPOSURE TO INTERNATIONAL TRAFFIC, BLOOMBERG INTELLIGENCE ANALYST JAMES TEO WROTE IN A NOTE EARLIER THIS WEEK.
BEIJING — THE AUTHORITIES IN CHINA REPORTED A THIRD DEATH FROM A MYSTERIOUS VIRUS AND MORE THAN 130 NEW CASES OVER THE WEEKEND, INCLUDING ONES FOUND IN BEIJING AND SOUTHERN CHINA FOR THE FIRST TIME. ONE NEW CASE WAS ALSO REPORTED IN SOUTH KOREA ON MONDAY.
CHINA IS STRUGGLING TO CONTAIN RISING PUBLIC ANGER OVER ITS RESPONSE TO A SPREADING CORONAVIRUS EVEN AS IT TOOK UNPRECEDENTED STEPS TO SLOW THE OUTBREAK, RESTRICTING TRAVEL FOR 40 MILLION PEOPLE ON THE EVE OF LUNAR NEW YEAR.
EUROPEAN STOCKS CLOSE HIGHER AS WHO SAYS NO 'GLOBAL EMERGENCY' YET FOR CHINA VIRUS; DATA OFFERS RELIEF
SINCE JANUARY, AT LEAST 26 PEOPLE HAVE DIED IN THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK IN MAINLAND CHINA, WITH MOST CASES RECORDED IN THE CENTRAL HUBEI PROVINCE. CHINESE OFFICIALS CONFIRMED THAT THE VIRUS HAS INFECTED 881 PEOPLE SO FAR.
SEVERAL DRUGMAKERS ARE RACING TO DEVELOP VACCINES THAT COULD PROTECT AGAINST THE NEW RESPIRATORY VIRUS ORIGINATING IN CHINA, AS FEARS MOUNT IT COULD SPREAD MORE WIDELY.
A NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN VIRUS DETECTED IN THE CHINESE CITY OF WUHAN HAS CLAIMED AT LEAST 41 LIVES AND INFECTED HUNDREDS OF CHINESE CITIZENS WITH A PNEUMONIA-LIKE ILLNESS, ACCORDING TO CHINA"S NATIONAL HEALTH COMMISSION. THE VIRUS WAS FIRST REPORTED TO THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO) ON DEC. 31 AND HAS BEEN UNDER INVESTIGATION SINCE.
NO FEVER IN SOME CHINA VIRUS CARRIERS MAKES DETECTION HARDER
A GAME IN WHICH PLAYERS CREATE A DISEASE WHICH ATTEMPTS TO WIPE OUT THE ENTIRE WORLD"S POPULATION HAS SOARED TO THE TOP OF THE APP STORE IN CHINA AMID AN OUTBREAK OF THE DEADLY CORONAVIRUS.
(REUTERS) - GILEAD SCIENCES INC SAID ON THURSDAY IT WAS ASSESSING WHETHER ITS EXPERIMENTAL EBOLA TREATMENT COULD BE USED AGAINST THE NEW CORONAVIRUS THAT HAS SICKENED HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE IN CHINA AND LED TO AT LEAST 18 DEATHS.
WUHAN, CHINA, WHERE THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK ORIGINATED
CHINA』S CREDIBILITY ON THE LINE AS IT TRIES TO DISPELS FEARS IT WILL COVER UP SPREAD OF WUHAN VIRUS
CHINA HAS IMPOSED AN UNPRECEDENTED, OPEN-ENDED SHUTDOWN OF WUHAN, THE CITY OF 11 MILLION PEOPLE WHERE THE VIRUS FIRST APPEARED LAST MONTH. AND IT BEGAN SIMILAR MEASURES IN NEARBY CITIES FRIDAY TO TRY TO HALT THE SPREAD OF THE NEWLY IDENTIFIED CORONAVIRUS THAT HAS INFECTED HUNDREDS.

 

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