{"id":50948,"date":"2020-02-04T19:26:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T00:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50948"},"modified":"2020-02-04T19:26:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T00:26:59","slug":"japan-confirms-10-ncov-cases-aboard-quarantined-cruise-ship-officials-warn-virus-could-spread-widely-through-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50948","title":{"rendered":"Japan Confirms 10 nCoV Cases Aboard Quarantined Cruise Ship; Officials Warn Virus Could &#8220;Spread Widely Through Hong Kong&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/president-xi-warns-ncov-outbreak-threatens-stability-top-who-official-disputes\">Japan Confirms 10 nCoV Cases Aboard Quarantined Cruise Ship; Officials Warn Virus Could &#8220;Spread Widely Through Hong Kong&#8221;<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Confirmed deaths: 490<\/li><li>Confirmed cases on mainland: 24,324; additional 172 in ROW<\/li><li>Chinese authorities have enforced full community lockdown in Nanjing Province<\/li><li>American Airlines, Cathay Pacific and Jetstar close routes to China<\/li><li>Taiwan tightens travel restrictions<\/li><li>WHO infectious hazard chief says outbreak &#8216;not a pandemic&#8217;<\/li><li>Japan confirms at least 10 cases of coronavirus aboard &#8220;Diamond Princess&#8221;<\/li><li>Kudlow says impact on US economy from outbreak will be &#8216;limited&#8217;<\/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 (1845ET):\u00a0<\/strong>At least 10 cases of coronavirus have been discovered aboard the Carnival Japan cruise ship &#8220;the Diamond Princess&#8221;, which has been quarantined at Japan&#8217;s Yokohama port since yesterday after officials learned that a passenger who recently disembarked tested positive for the virus in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QuickTake\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1201727640828289024\/5qNzuVlU_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QuickTake\"><strong><\/strong><strong>\u2714<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QuickTake\/status\/1224831493102542854\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JUST IN: More than 10 people aboard a Japanese cruise liner have tested positive for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/coronavirus?src=hash\">#coronavirus<\/a>, Japan&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tbs_news\">@tbs_news<\/a> reported, after all 3,000+ passengers were quarantined earlier Tuesday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As we reported earlier, 3,000+ passengers aboard the cruise ship are under quarantine. It&#8217;s unclear when they&#8217;ll be allowed to leave the ship. All individuals who were found to be infected with the virus were taken to a local hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, after unveiling the city&#8217;s first virus-related death, Hong Kong health officials warned Tuesday that the coronavirus outbreak could &#8220;spread widely through Hong Kong.&#8221; Three newly diagnosed cases raised the total number diagnosed in the city to 18, with at least four of those cases being confirmed human-to-human transmissions, according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/health-environment\/article\/3048995\/deadly-coronavirus-could-spread-widely-through\">SCMP<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It is highly probable the four were infected locally, so there could be invisible chains of infection happening within communities,&#8221; Chuang said. &#8220;We are not ruling out a large spread [of the virus] in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And for the second time in as many hours, health officials on the mainland updated the tally of confirmed cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Screen%20Shot%202020-02-04%20at%206.55.10%20PM.png?itok=tmMcCUpo\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan Confirms 10 nCoV Cases Aboard Quarantined Cruise Ship; Officials Warn Virus Could &#8220;Spread Widely Through Hong Kong&#8221; Summary: Confirmed deaths: 490 Confirmed cases on mainland: 24,324; additional 172 in ROW Chinese authorities have enforced full community lockdown in Nanjing Province American Airlines, Cathay Pacific and Jetstar close routes to China Taiwan tightens travel restrictions [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50948","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=50948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50949,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50948\/revisions\/50949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}