The SARS case dragged on because local officials in China were withholding information. China had been called to order by the WHO. This time they are not hiding anything.
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https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_de_WuhanWuhan coronavirus, more precisely the Wuhan seafood market pneumonia virus1, rated 2019-nCoV (for 2019 Novel Coronavirus) by WHO2,3, is a positive-sense single-stranded RNA coronavirus reported for the first time on December 12, 2019. Its genome was sequenced for the first time on January 5, 2020, by a team from Fudan University of China, and deposited on GenBank, it was sequenced from a sample taken in December 2019 during the 2019-2020 coronavirus epidemic. However, it was updated on January 17, 2020 4,5,6.
Only six coronaviruses (229E, NL63, OC43, HKU1, MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV) were previously known to infect humans; this new virus, 2019-nCoV, would therefore be the seventh.
On January 20, 2020, human-to-human transmission was confirmed in Guangdong, China, according to Zhong Nanshan (fr), team leader of the health commission investigating the epidemic7. No specific treatment for the new virus is currently available, but existing antivirals may be reassigned8.
The virus has spread to Bangkok (Thailand), Tokyo (Japan), Seoul (South Korea), Beijin (China), Shanghai (China), Guangdong (China), Dayuan (in) (Taiwan), Hong Kong9, Macau, United States10, Vietnam11 and Singapore12. Also 3 cases in France recorded on January 24, 2020. There have been 26 deaths, mainly in and around Wuhan, and 913 known cases13. Scientists at the Center for Analysis of Global Infectious Diseases at the Medical Research Council of Imperial College London estimate that up to 4 people are infected with 000-nCoV in the city of Wuhan2019.
Agnes Buzin's recommendations
"People with whom coronavirus-positive patients have been in contact must" take their temperature several times a day, contact center 15 in case of symptoms and stay at home for the moment to avoid any subsequent contact that would promote the spread virus, "insisted the minister, calling not to go to the emergency room in case of symptoms.
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