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Một người Mỹ chết ở Vũ Hán vì virus corona
Một công dân Mỹ ở Vũ Hán đã chết vì nhiễm virus corona mới. Ngoài ra, một người Nhật cũng chết tại Vũ Hán bị nghi là nhiễm virus. Ngày 6/2, người Mỹ này đã tử vong và hiện chưa có nhiều chi tiết về ông. Đại sứ quán Mỹ tại Bắc Kinh cho biết độ tuổi người này khoảng…
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Not much of an apology – Thai Health Minister’s non-apology
OPINION by Tim Newton Yesterday morning the Thai Public Health Minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, also the head of the Bhumjaithai Party, lost his cool and struck out at ‘Europeans’ and ‘damn farangs’ (caucasians) saying they “should be kicked out” of Thailand for not wearing the cheap, flimsy paper face masks being handed out at the busy Siam BTS station as a…
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2 year old girl hospitalised in Israel over virus after arriving from Thailand
A two year old girl who recently flew from Thailand to Israel is in hospital due to fears she might be infected with the 19nCoV coronavirus. It isn’t clear whether the girl is an Israeli citizen. Hospital staff say she’s suffering from fever and diarrhea, and “this is currently a condition that requires hospitalization in isolation.” Israel’s Health Ministry yesterday…
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Coronavirus UPDATE – over 100,000 Chinese are still in Thailand
This morning there remain 25 confirmed coronavirus cases in Thailand. The death toll has now reached 724 with a total of 34,878 confirmed cases in the past six weeks. Over 2,000 have now fully recovered. Meanwhile, around Thailand, many Chinese tourists and expats continue to circulate after being in the Kingdom for more than 2-3 weeks. Around 100,000 Chinese tourists…
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Việt Nam nuôi cấy thành công virus corona mới
Hôm nay Viện Vệ sinh Dịch tễ Trung ương công bố vừa nuôi cấy và phân lập thành công virus corona mới trong phòng thí nghiệm. Đại diện Viện Vệ sinh Dịch tễ Trung ương cho biết việc nuôi cấy này sẽ tạo điều kiện thuận lợi để xét nghiệm nhanh các trường hợp nhiễm và nghi nhiễm nCoV. Nhờ…
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Tài xế Trung Quốc đeo 12 khẩu trang tránh virus corona bị chỉ trích
Một tài xế ở Trung Quốc vừa bị chỉ trích khi mang 12 chiếc khẩu trang để chống virus corona, khi khẩu trang đang là mặt hàng khan hiếm tại đây. Theo SCMP, một tài xế tại thành phố Đông Hoản, tỉnh Quảng Đông, Trung Quốc đeo 12 chiếc khẩu trang khi đang lái xe và đã phải gỡ từng…
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Thai Health Minister apologises for his comments that ‘farang’ should be kicked out
UPDATE: The Thai Health Minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, has had a bad case of foot-in-mouth disease since this morning, after being panned in social media for his comments at a government PR gathering to promote the wearing of face-masks following the coronavirus outbreak in China. The minister has apologised for his earlier comments about ‘farang’ , when he said that they…
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Health minister says no travel ban
Thailand’s public health minister Anutin Charnvirakul now says imposing a travel ban on Chinese citizens won’t help the government’s fight against coronavirus 2019nCov epidemic. Speaking at a news conference yesterday, Anutin said the infection is being found even in countries and territories that have restricted or closed their borders to Chinese travelers. Instead of a travel ban, he says, the…
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Japan cruise ship virus cases triple to 61
41 more cases of the Novel Coronavirus, or 2019nCoV, have been found on the cruise ship Diamond Princess, currently quarantined in Japan’s Yokohama Harbour, bringing the total to 61. The virus has killed hundreds of people, nearly all in China, and infected more than 30,000 on the Chinese mainland. The ship was quarantined after a former passenger, who disembarked in…
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Coronavirus UPDATE – 31,481 infections world-wide, the search for a cure
“…the coronavirus has proven itself to have higher infection rates and lower fatality rates when compared with Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)” As the coronavirus outbreak in China surges past the 30,000 mark, having infected 31,481 people, the global scientific community are racing to find a reliable treatment and vaccine. Most of the people…
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Bác sĩ cảnh báo sớm về virus corona qua đời ở tuổi 34
Bác sĩ Li Wenliang từng cảnh báo về sự nguy hiểm của virus corona vừa qua đời tại bệnh viện ở thành phố Vũ Hán. Theo Guardian, ông Li Wenliang, bác sĩ nhãn khoa Bệnh viện Trung ương Vũ Hán từng cảnh báo đồng nghiệp và nhân viên y tế về virus corona, vừa qua đời tại Vũ Hán sau…
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Tourist police make video to encourage “Chinese family”
Facing a massive slump in tourism from China, the Tourist Police Bureau has produced a video for Chinese to boost the morale of people dealing with the Novel Coronavirus. The video has drawn plenty of praise and shares since being posted on social media yesterday. Tourist Police Commissioner Chadtha Komonwattana says the bureau is deeply concerned about the virus situation,…
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TP HCM đề xuất cho học sinh nghỉ thêm một tuần vì virus corona
Để tránh bùng phát dịch nCoV, Sở Giáo dục và Đào tạo đã gửi tờ trình xin UBND TP HCM cho học sinh các cấp nghỉ học đến hết ngày 16/2, thay vì ngày 9/2. Sở Giáo dục và Đào tạo cho biết việc nghỉ thêm là cần thiết nhằm chống dịch xâm nhập, lây lan trong môi trường học…
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Cruise ships save the day in Koh Samui
It’s Europeans to the rescue in Koh Samui, as the last group of Chinese tourists for the foreseeable future left on Tuesday. Two cruise ships brought thousands of European visitors yesterday to save this southern resort island’s struggling economy. About 3,500 passengers, mostly from Britain and Germany, arrived aboard the German-flagged AIDAbella and the British-registered Marella Discovery. Groups of tourists…
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First Thai to catch and recover from Coronavirus tells people not to worry
The first Thai to contract, and recover from, the Novel Coronavirus is giving the thumbs up and telling the public not to panic. 73 year old Jaimuay Sae-ing was interviewed on the Palang Pracharat party’s Facebook page yesterday. Jaimuay fully recovered from the virus after nine days in Nakhon Pathom hospital, around 50 kilometres west of Bangkok, under the care…
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Coronavirus UPDATE – 28,276 confirmed cases, many people continue to recover
The month-long outbreak of the novel coronavirus shows no sign of letting up with the death toll rising, along with the list of new cases and an increasingly long list of full recoveries. Chinese health officials have raised the death toll to 565, with a total of 28,276 cases identified around the world. The number of full recoveries now exceeds…
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Điện Biên: Toàn tỉnh nghỉ học vì 34 học sinh nghi nhiễm virus corona
UBND tỉnh Điện Biên vừa quyết định cho toàn bộ học sinh được nghỉ học để phòng chóng sự lây lan của virus viêm phổi cấp corona. Theo thông tin từ Phòng GD-ĐT huyện Nậm Pồ (Điện Biên), trước đó đã có 34 học sinh và hai giáo viên trong huyện xuất hiện các biểu hiện như ho, sốt được…
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First locally infected virus patient cured, discharged
Thailand’s first locally infected victim of the Novel Coronavirus has been given a clean bill of health and discharged from hospital. Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said today that the taxi driver, the first person to be infected in Thailand had been treated, cleared and discharged by Bamrasnaradura Infectious Diseases Institute. All relatives and those who were in close contact…
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10 on quarantined cruise test positive for Coronavirus
If you’ve got to be quarantined, it may as well be on a luxury cruise ship. But Japan’s health minister Katsunobu Kato announced today that 10 people on the Diamond Princess, the cruise ship quarantined in Yokohama Harbour, have tested positive for the Novel Coronavirus. The 3711 guests and crew are still being tested, after a former passenger, who disembarked…
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Four evacuees from Wuhan kept in naval hospital for observation
Four* of the 138 Thai evacuees from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the Novel Coronavirus outbreak, were taken to the hospital at the Royal Thai Navy’s Sattahip Naval Base for observation yesterday, after they were found to have a fever. Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, who was at Pattaya’s U-Tapao Airport last night to meet the evacuees,…
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Flight full of Thai evacuees from Wuhan arrives at U-tapao, four with fever
Four of the 138 Thais repatriated in an Air Asia jet from Wuhan last night were found to have a fever. The Thai Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul was at U-tapao airport, south of Pattaya, last night to welcome the 138 evacuees. Thai AirAsia flight FD571, carrying the 138 Thai passengers, landed at the navy airport in Ban Chang district in…
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Coronavirus UPDATE – 492 people now dead, spread to 25 countries
The latest toll for the Coronavirus outbreak has now reached 25,552, of which just over 3,000 are reported to be in a critical condition. 492 people have died from the disease and 907 have recovered. Outside of China there are now 25 countries with infected patients – Thailand, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Australia and Germany with the most cases. Meanwhile,…
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Krabi health officials dismiss reports of 100 suspected virus patients
Days before PM Prayut Cha-ocha issued his ominous warning on spreading fake news about the Coronavirus outbreak, health officials of the Krabi Provincial Public Health Office (KPHO) refuted recent reports that 100 or more people are in isolation there on suspicion of being infected. The reports surfaced Saturday and appeared in several national news outlets, even including a “quote” from…
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Quảng Ninh: Lập bệnh viện dã chiến chống corona
Bệnh viện dã chiến số 2 sẽ trưng dụng toàn bộ nhân viên y tế của Bệnh viện lao và phổi Quảng Ninh giúp điều trị người có kết quả bệnh dương tính với virus corona. Hôm qua, theo quy định của Bộ Y tế, UBND tỉnh Quảng Ninh quyết định thành lập bệnh viện dã chiến số 2 nhằm…
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Trung Quốc cách chức và xử phạt 400 quan chức giữa dịch corona
Mới đây, Trung Quốc đã thừa nhận có nhiều “thiếu sót” trong phản ứng với dịch virus corona, và xử phạt hàng trăm quan chức nhằm xoa dịu phẫn nộ của dân. Hôm qua, tại cuộc họp Ủy ban Thường vụ Bộ Chính trị Trung Quốc đã kết luận hệ thống quản lý ứng phó khẩn cấp cần phải được…
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PM calls fake virus news “biggest threat”
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha told a press briefing today that fake news is the worst threat to the public regarding the Wuhan Coronavirus and warned those who spread it will be “dealt with” decisively, and in accordance with the law. The PM reassured the public that the government can contain the spread of the virus and is fully equipped and…
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3500 passengers and crew quarantined on cruise ship in Japan
Japan yesterday took the dramatic step of quarantining a cruise ship carrying some 3500 people, over fears of the Coronavirus. The Diamond Princess was detained in Yokohama Harbour and Japanese television footage showed quarantine officers entering the ship to check the health of all 2,500 passengers and 1,000 crew. A woman in her twenties, travelling with her mother on the…
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Thai Lion Air offers Thais stuck in China free “Fly them back home” flights
Thai Lion Air, the Thai subsidiary of the Indonesian budget airline, is saying it will help repatriate Thais living in various cities in China, where air transportation is still allowed, under the airline’s “Fly them back home” project, free of charge. They are planning the flights home between February 5 and 8. “Passengers will be given a thorough examination as…
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Chứng khoán Trung Quốc tụt dốc vì virus corona
Trong phiên mở cửa giao dịch đầu tiên sau kỳ nghỉ Tết, thị trường chứng khoán Trung Quốc tụt không phanh do dịch virus corona. Theo Bloomberg, chứng khoán Trung Quốc đang chìm trong ác mộng sâu nhất kể từ năm 2015 do dịch virus corona vừa bùng phát tại Vũ Hán. Trong phiên giao dịch sáng nay, chỉ số…
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Hồng Vân, Trịnh Kim Chi dính ‘vận đen’ vì virus corona
Virus corona đang diễn biến có phức tạp trên nhiều địa phương cả nước, NSƯT Trịnh Kim Chi đã quyết định tạm đóng cửa sân khấu tại Q.6, TPHCM. Sân khấu tại Q.6 của NS Trịnh Kim Chi tạm thời đóng cửa. Ảnh: Tri thức trực tuyến Cụ thể tối qua, NS Trịnh Kim Chi chia sẻ trên Tri thức…
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