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#1 VIResident

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Posted 17 January 2020 - 11:54 AM

Three U.S. airports to begin screening passengers from central China for new coronavirus

 

At least a half-dozen countries in Asia have started screening incoming airline passengers from central China. The list includes Thailand and Japan, which both have reported cases of the disease in people who had come from Wuhan. 

 

https://www.theglobe...-central-china/


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#2 VIResident

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Posted 18 January 2020 - 07:30 AM

Vancouver airport on alert for deadly virus from China

Travellers from Wuhan, China, who arrive at Vancouver airport will be told to report flu-like symptoms and could face additional screening after a deadly respiratory virus that originated in the city killed two people and infected another 45 overseas.

 

 

The Public Health Agency of Canada said that Canadians are at low risk of infection, given that Canada has no direct flights from Wuhan and few travellers arrive here directly from the city. But the agency said Friday that it will work to identify any travellers who might have been exposed.  https://www.timescol...hina-1.24055743


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#3 VIResident

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Posted 20 January 2020 - 10:58 AM

SARS-like virus has been transmitted from person to person, Chinese health authorities say

 

A new SARS-like virus spreading in China and into other countries in Asia has been transmitted from person to person, Chinese health authorities said Monday, as the number of confirmed cases rose above 200.  https://www.theglobe...hinese-holiday/


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#4 lanforod

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Posted 20 January 2020 - 11:01 AM

This is scary; bound to happen sooner or later. Let's hope it's short lived compared to SARS.


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Posted 20 January 2020 - 06:22 PM

If it's less deadly than SARS it'll probably spread way faster.

#6 Jackerbie

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Posted 21 January 2020 - 12:04 PM

CDC has confirmed first case in the USA. Patient travelled from China to Seattle. via https://www.cbc.ca/n...wuhan-1.5434256



#7 VIResident

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Posted 22 January 2020 - 07:25 AM

"......A Citibank report this morning notes that the coronavirus currently sweeping China and Asia could reach a full-blown crisis by March, before it can be contained."

 

"...Air Canada stock has already reacted badly to the crisis, falling 4.5 per cent."

 

".....If this virus is as bad as “black swan” events, the Canadian airline could take a $475 million hit to Ebitda, suggesting a$7 per share hit to its stock value or a 14% decline from its Monday’s closing price, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce analyst Kevin Chiang in a report published Tuesday. “That being said, it is unknown at this time if the coronavirus will be as bad as the SARS outbreak from 2003,” Chiang said, according to a Bloomberg report."

 

https://business.fin...-canadian-court



#8 Mike K.

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Posted 22 January 2020 - 07:45 AM

Sounds like Citibank has some stock market shorts lined up.


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#9 Mike K.

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Posted 22 January 2020 - 01:19 PM

Great. They named this thing after us: 2019-nCoV.


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#10 RFS

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Posted 22 January 2020 - 01:55 PM

All outbound planes and trains from Wuhan have been shutdown 



#11 VIResident

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Posted 22 January 2020 - 02:02 PM

WHO Calls for Emergency Meeting as Chinese Virus Spreads to Health Care Workers

The committee will be asked to decide whether it constitutes a public health emergency of international concern, or a PHEIC.

 

https://www.scientif...h-care-workers/

 

or the G&M headline:

WHO to decide on Thursday whether to declare global emergency over coronavirus

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#12 VIResident

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Posted 23 January 2020 - 05:17 AM

‘This time I’m scared’:

SARS virologist warns Wuhan virus far worse, as China locks down second city

 

“Conservative estimates suggest that the scale of infection may eventually be 10 times higher than SARS,” said Dr. Guan, director of the State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases at the University of Hong Kong, told China’s Caixin media group on Thursday."

 

https://www.theglobe...irus-far-worse/


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#13 VIResident

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Posted 24 January 2020 - 06:19 AM

One person in Vancouver being monitored for coronavirus, feds say

Federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu said five or six people are being monitored in Canada

 

https://www.vicnews....virus-feds-say/



#14 VIResident

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Posted 24 January 2020 - 07:04 AM

Disney resort and McDonalds to shut: Among other public venues, a section of the Great Wall of China in Beijing, Shanghai Disney Resort and McDonalds outlets 



#15 AllseeingEye

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Posted 24 January 2020 - 03:15 PM

Dammit my portfolio was up 12% last year - this ain't going to help: https://www.cnn.com/...oday/index.html.

 

Interesting to hear Canadian lawyers - good old lawyers, there is no subject under the sun that they can't find without a potential for litigious action - chime in and blather on this week about how a China-style quarantine of a major Canadian city a la Wuhan was "impossible" here due to Charter provisions governing freedom of movement...huh??! So if a deadly virus broke out in one of our major cities - lets call it Justinian Trudoitis or its close relative Benjamin Isittis - the government essentially is powerless to do anything because of 'individual freedoms?' I find that very difficult to believe...


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#16 tanker

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Posted 24 January 2020 - 04:49 PM

Google the war Powers act. Also there's always the much maligned not withstanding clause, which establishes parliament as the supreme branch of government.

#17 AllseeingEye

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Posted 24 January 2020 - 04:57 PM

^ If you are referring to the War Measures Act, it was actually repealed in 1988 and replaced by the Emergencies Act. Does the latter cover off this contingency? What I do know of the Emergencies Act is that any temporary laws made under the Act are nonetheless subject to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms - which was the point presumably the lawyers were making. Hopefully we won't have to find out the hard way.



#18 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 24 January 2020 - 05:26 PM

this virus is not all that easily transmitted. there will be no widespread western outbreak.

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Posted 24 January 2020 - 06:00 PM

https://www.bloomber...=premium-canada

Death toll hits 40, first cases confirmed in Europe

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Posted 24 January 2020 - 06:07 PM

sars killed 800.

 

the flu kills 400000 every year.



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