{"id":50720,"date":"2020-01-26T13:04:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T18:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50720"},"modified":"2020-01-26T13:04:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T18:04:04","slug":"third-coronavirus-infection-confirmed-in-california-as-wuhan-mayor-expects-1000-or-so-new-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50720","title":{"rendered":"Third Coronavirus Infection Confirmed In California As Wuhan Mayor Expects \u201c1000 Or So\u201d New Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/third-us-coronavirus-case-confirmed-orange-county\">Third Coronavirus Infection Confirmed In California As Wuhan Mayor Expects \u201c1000 Or So\u201d New Cases<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Summary:&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Over 2000 cases, 56 Official deaths<\/li><li><strong>Incubation is asymptomatic, contagious<\/strong>, and can be as long as 14 days<\/li><li>5M may have left Wuhan for Lunar New Year<\/li><li><strong>1st case was Dec 1<\/strong>&nbsp;NOT Dec 31 so infect pop may be much bigger<\/li><li>US, Russia, Thailand begin plans for&nbsp;<strong>evacuation<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*&nbsp; *&nbsp; *<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Update (0950ET):<\/strong>&nbsp;As the world is on edge with the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/economics\/how-china-hiding-true-number-coronavirus-deaths\">rise of the number of officially reported coronavirus infections<\/a>&nbsp;(and deaths), the mayor of Wuhan said Sunday that he expects news cases to jump by 1,000.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Secret_Beijing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1216977319195115521\/FTqmIsye_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Wuhan?src=hash\">#Wuhan<\/a> mayor Zhou Xianwang is now hosting a press conference in Wuhan. &#8220;1000 new cases of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/coronavirus?src=hash\">#coronavirus<\/a> are expected in Wuhan at the moment.&#8221; Many netizens are outrageous about the slow reaction of the local govt over the outbreak and ask him to take responsibility for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Secret_Beijing\/status\/1221437158185062401\/photo\/1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/EPNqnPNU0AAiNvX?format=jpg&amp;name=medium\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ariahychen\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1207356788225515522\/LJQ45Fzx_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ariahychen\"><strong><\/strong><strong>\u2714<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ariahychen\/status\/1221438682726404096\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wuhan mayor Zhou Xianwang said there\u2019ll likely be 1,000 more confirmed cases. That\u2019s an estimate from the current 2209 suspected cases &amp; 643 other under observation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mayor Zhou Xianwang told&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/uk-china-health-wuhan-cases\/mayor-of-chinas-wuhan-says-expects-another-1000-virus-cases-idUKKBN1ZP0JQ\">Reuters<\/a>&nbsp;and other journalists in a briefing that Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak, could soon report an additional 1,000 new cases, that would push total cases across Mainland China to about 3,000.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Xianwang said the city is constructing several new hospitals to deal with infected patients.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said the city had received new supplies on protective gear such as biological suits, masks, and glasses, which have been in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/virus-mask-run-beings-masks-sell-out-across-asia-prices-skyrocket-amid-coronavirus-fears\">short supply<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third Coronavirus Infection Confirmed In California As Wuhan Mayor Expects \u201c1000 Or So\u201d New Cases Summary:&nbsp; Over 2000 cases, 56 Official deaths Incubation is asymptomatic, contagious, and can be as long as 14 days 5M may have left Wuhan for Lunar New Year 1st case was Dec 1&nbsp;NOT Dec 31 so infect pop may be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[130,28817,28849,4318],"class_list":["post-50720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-china","tag-coronavirus","tag-wuhan-virus","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50721,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50720\/revisions\/50721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}