{"id":51065,"date":"2020-02-10T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51065"},"modified":"2020-02-10T07:00:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T12:00:54","slug":"tip-of-the-iceberg-who-director-warns-of-more-widespread-transmission-as-virus-death-toll-tops-900-beijing-under-partial-lock-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51065","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Tip Of The Iceberg&#8221; &#8211; WHO Director Warns Of More Widespread Transmission As Virus Death Toll Tops 900, Beijing Under Partial Lock Down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/were-totally-dark-japan-not-doing-enough-contain-outbreak-diamond-princess-passengers\">&#8220;Tip Of The Iceberg&#8221; &#8211; WHO Director Warns Of More Widespread Transmission As Virus Death Toll Tops 900, Beijing Under Partial Lock Down<\/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><strong>Virus death toll hits 902, vastly surpassing all of&nbsp; SARS (813) in only three weeks<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>The number of global confirmed cases hits 40,553 in China (40,171) and offshore (382)<\/strong><\/li><li>WHO Director-General warns &#8220;we may only be seeing the tip of the iceberg&#8221;<\/li><li>Exiled Chinese billionaire says true death toll closer to 50k, 1.5 million infected<\/li><li>New cases confirmed in UK, Spain, Singapore<\/li><li>Passengers aboard &#8216;Diamond Princess&#8217; warn authorities aren&#8217;t doing enough to protect them &#8211; and others<\/li><li>Officials in Shenzen say they won&#8217;t block Foxxconn factory reopening<\/li><li>Cruise ship quarantined in Hong Kong allowed to leave after 4 days<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* * *<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Update (2240ET):\u00a0<\/strong>And so the epidemic reaches China&#8217;s capital Beijing. As\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gnews.org\/109102\/\">gnews reports<\/a>, as the coronavirus spreads from Wuhan, China has been implementing \u201cclosed management\u201d by putting 80 cities under lockdown, and on Monday, Beijing authorities also issued a \u201cStrict Closed Management of Residential Communities\u201d in an epidemic prevention and control announcement (<a href=\"http:\/\/politics.people.com.cn\/n1\/2020\/0210\/c1001-31578622.html\">link here<\/a>). It is an official declaration that Beijing, the country\u2019s capital city of China, is now under lockdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jenniferatntd\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1165454070854930432\/rlFABk5V_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Beijing?src=hash\">#Beijing<\/a> partially locked down, all communities under \u201cclosedown model \u201c management. Original Chinese language announcement here <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E6%AD%A6%E6%B1%89%E8%82%BA%E7%82%8E?src=hash\">#\u6b66\u6c49\u80ba\u708e<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/coronavirus?src=hash\">#coronavirus<\/a> \u5317\u4eac\u53d1\u5e03\u75ab\u60c5\u9632\u63a7\u901a\u544a\uff0c\u4e25\u683c\u5c45\u4f4f\u5c0f\u533a\uff08\u6751\uff09\u5c01\u95ed\u5f0f\u7ba1 \u7406<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FRGsRtbJNP\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/politics.people.com.cn\/n1\/2020\/0210\/c1001-31578622.html\u00a0\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jenniferatntd\/status\/1226699344914587655\/photo\/1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/EQYciGZW4AE9TK3?format=jpg&amp;name=900x900\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the notice, Beijing will further enforce \u201ccommunity closed management\u201d in a strict manner.&nbsp;<strong>Outside vehicles and personnel are not allowed to enter the city. People arriving in Beijing must also report their health status and complete the registration of personal information.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those, who have left the epidemic area or have physical contact with persons in the epidemic area within 14 days of their arrival at Beijing, shall be inspected or quarantined at home in accordance with the regulations. They should take the initiative to report their health conditions, and cooperate with relevant management services. They shall not go out.\u00a0<\/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>&#8220;Tip Of The Iceberg&#8221; &#8211; WHO Director Warns Of More Widespread Transmission As Virus Death Toll Tops 900, Beijing Under Partial Lock Down Summary: Virus death toll hits 902, vastly surpassing all of&nbsp; SARS (813) in only three weeks The number of global confirmed cases hits 40,553 in China (40,171) and offshore (382) WHO Director-General [&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":[4,6,7],"tags":[28866,28817,7258,878,4318],"class_list":["post-51065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-2019-ncov","tag-coronavirus","tag-viral-outbreak","tag-who","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51065","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=51065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51066,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51065\/revisions\/51066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}