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The mysterious pneumonia-like disease striking dozens of people in Wuhan, China, has now been identified as from the same family of viruses as the deadly SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome). This news from Chinese scientists today.

Earlier today The Thaiger reported that three Thais and a Chinese citizen had been detected arriving from Wuhan in the Hubei province with suspected viral symptoms comparable with a flu or viral pneumonia.

The scientists say they’ve found a new “coronavirus in 15 of 57 patients with the illness in the central city of Wuhan, saying it has been preliminarily identified as the pathogen for the outbreak”.

The news was reported on the Chinese state broadcaster CCTV.

“Coronaviruses” are a large family of viruses that can cause anything from the common cold (rhino virus) up to to SARS*. According to the WHO, some coronaviruses are able to transmit easily from person to person, while others can not.

The CCTV report went on to explain that the current ‘Wuhan Virus’, a coronavirus, appears to not be as lethal as SARS.

“Its symptoms are mainly fever, with a number of patients having difficulty breathing. Eight patients had recovered and been discharged from hospital as of Wednesday, and no deaths have been reported.” (Translated from CCTV)

This new viral outbreak was first detected in the city of Wuhan on December 12 last year. A total of 59 people have been identified as contracting the illness. Seven patients have been in a critical condition at some stage, according to Chinese health authorities. Authorities report that no healthcare workers have been infected.

Some of the patients were reported to have been employed at a seafood market in Wuhan. Local media reported the market also sold “other live animals, including birds, rabbits and snakes”. These reports sparked concerns that the virus might have been transmitted to humans from animals.

Six coronaviruses are known to infect humans — four of them typically cause the common cold, and the other two are SARS and MERS (the middle east respiratory syndrome, first identified in Saudi Arabia in 2012).

SARS infected more than 8,000 people and killed 774 in a pandemic that ripped through Asia and spread to 37 countries in 2002 and 2003.

In a statement today the World Health Organisation said that China’s preliminary identification of a “novel virus” in such a short period since its earliest identification, “demonstrates the country’s increased capacity to manage new outbreaks”.

Across Asia governments are now stepping up preventive measures such as airport temperature screening and requirements for notification in the wake of what is being referred to as the “Wuhan outbreak”.

Airports of Thailand says they are monitoring a the detection of any viral symptoms from Wuhan flights coming out of China. They say that six airports are now ready to cope with the situation by setting up international communicable diseases control checkpoints. Up to date four passengers – three Thai and one Chinese – have been detected and isolated pending further prognosis.

*World Health Organisation

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Arsenal vs West Ham United: Vòng 29 Ngoại Hạng Anh – 22h00 Ngày 07/03/2020 – Đi tìm sự ổn định

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(22h00 – 07/03/2020) Arsenal vs West Ham United: Vòng 29 Ngoi Hng Anh. Link xem trc tiếp – Kênh đ xem gii Ngoi hng Anh. Xem gii Ngoi hng Anh hôm nay.

Link trực tiếp: Xem tại đây

Kể từ khi Mikel Arteta lên nắm quyền, Arsenal đã từng bước thay đổi bộ mặt của mình cả trong lối chơi lẫn các kết quả trận đấu.

Arsenal vs West Ham United: Vòng 29 Ngoại Hạng Anh – 22h00 Ngày 07/03/2020 – Đi tìm sự ổn định | News by The Thaiger

Mikel Arteta ra mắt đội chủ sân Emirates. Ảnh: www.sportinglife.com

Mọi thứ ở Bắc London đang tốt dần lên thì trận thua muối mặt 1-2 trước Olympiakos ngay trên sân nhà tại trận lượt về vòng 32 đội của UEFA Europa League đã làm tan tành giấc mộng trời âu năm nay của các “Pháo Thủ”.

Arsenal vs West Ham United: Vòng 29 Ngoại Hạng Anh – 22h00 Ngày 07/03/2020 – Đi tìm sự ổn định | News by The ThaigerThất bại ngay trên sân nhà trước Olympiakos ở Europa League. Ảnh: bongdaplus.vn

Arsenal hiện đứng thứ 10 Ngoại Hạng Anh và khoảng cách của họ đến vị trí được quyền tham dự UEFA Champion League mùa sau chỉ là 5 điểm. Vì vậy nhiệm vụ 3 điểm trước West Ham United đêm nay là điều bắt buộc với thầy trò Mikel Arteta, nhất là khi họ được thi đấu trên sân nhà Emirates.

Arsenal vs West Ham United: Vòng 29 Ngoại Hạng Anh – 22h00 Ngày 07/03/2020 – Đi tìm sự ổn định | News by The Thaiger

Ảnh: www.viator.com

Niềm tin cho các gunner càng được củng cố khi số liệu thống kê cho thấy Arsenal đã giành 8 chiến thắng trong 9 trận gần nhất tiếp đón “The Hammers”.

Tổn thất lực lượng lớn nhất của các Pháo Thủ trong trận đấu sắp tới là trường hợp của tiền vệ Lucas Torreira đã bị vỡ mắt cá chân phải trong trận gặp Postmouth ở FA Cup vừa qua.

Một số cái tên khác cũng không thể ra sân trong trận đấu tối nay là: Sead Kolasinac (chấn thương vai), Calum Chambers (chấn thương dây chằng) và Cedric Soares (chấn thương gối). Tuy nhiên họ cùng chào đón sự quay lại của Kieran Tierney.

Còn về phía “The Hammers”, dẫu cho họ vừa chấm dứt chuỗi 8 trận liên tiếp chỉ biết hòa và thua bằng chiến thắng trước Southampton ở vòng 28 Ngoại Hạng Anh nhưng thứ hạng của họ trên bảng xếp hạng đang rất báo động.

Arsenal vs West Ham United: Vòng 29 Ngoại Hạng Anh – 22h00 Ngày 07/03/2020 – Đi tìm sự ổn định | News by The Thaiger

Ảnh: football365.com

Đoàn quân của David Moyes hiện chỉ đứng trên nhóm cầm đèn đỏ nhờ hiệu số phụ. Thống kê cũng đang không đứng về phía West Ham United khi chỉ ra rằng David Moyes chưa bao giờ giành chiến thắng trong các đợt làm khách tại Emirates trong suốt 15 lần đối mặt với Arsenal (4 hòa, 11 thua).

Arsenal vs West Ham United: Vòng 29 Ngoại Hạng Anh – 22h00 Ngày 07/03/2020 – Đi tìm sự ổn định | News by The Thaiger

Ảnh: thethao247.vn

Tình hình lực lượng lại càng gây thêm những khó khăn cho “The Hammers”, khi họ sẽ không có sự phục vụ của các trụ cột như: Ryan Fredericks (chấn thương vai), Jack Wilshere (chấn thương háng), Tomas Soucek (chấn thương háng) và đặc biệt là sự vắng mặt của tiền đạo người Ukraine: Andriy Yarmolenko (chấn thương đùi).

Arsenal vs West Ham United: Vòng 29 Ngoại Hạng Anh – 22h00 Ngày 07/03/2020 – Đi tìm sự ổn định | News by The Thaiger

Ảnh: thethao247.vn

Mùa giải đang tiến vào 10 vòng đấu cuối, cả 2 đội đều có những mục đích riêng để cố gắng. Đặc biệt là với Arsenal, đoàn quân của Mikel Arteta sẽ phải tận dụng những cơ hội của mình dù là nhỏ nhất. Giữ lại 3 điểm trước West Ham United ở lại sân Emirates là mục tiêu bắt buộc nhất là khi họ có lợi thế vô cùng lớn từ sân nhà, lịch sử đối đầu lẫn tình hình nhân sự.

Đội hình dự kiến:

Arsenal vs West Ham United: Vòng 29 Ngoại Hạng Anh – 22h00 Ngày 07/03/2020 – Đi tìm sự ổn định | News by The Thaiger

Phong độ gần đây của 2 đội:

  • Arsenal: WWWLW
  • West Ham United: LDLLW

Thành tích đối đầu:

10/12/2019West Ham United – Arsenal1-3
12/01/2019West Ham United – Arsenal1-0
25/08/2018Arenal – West Ham United3-1

Dự đoán tỉ số: Arenal 2 – 0 West Ham United

Nguồn: TheGuardian.com

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Burmese military seize drugs and equipment valued at 2.02 billion baht north of Chiang Rai

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PHOTO: Some of the seized drugs and precursor chemicals - Chiang Rai Times

The Burmese military raided a methamphetamine pill factory and warehouses in Shan State, about 400 kilometres north of Chiang Rai province in Thailand’s northeast. Soldiers seized a vast quantity of drugs, precursor chemicals and drug-making equipment worth an estimated 2.02 billion baht. A spokesman for the Burmese military said that its soldiers conducted raids on plants in Kaungkha Village in Shan State and Kutkai Township, between February 28 and March 3. Kutkai is near the Myanmar-China border, north/northwest of Chiang Rai province.

During raids on the plant and warehouses, authorites found about 44 million meth pills, 129 kilograms of heroin, 15 kilograms of pseudoephedrine pills and hundreds of barrels of acid, and other chemicals and precursors. They also found pill production machines.

Military spokesman Brigadier General Zaw Min Tun told reporters:

“That area is a border area where various armed groups are active, including people’s militias, so it is difficult to say who those drugs belong to.”

Burmese military seize drugs and equipment valued at 2.02 billion baht north of Chiang Rai | News by The Thaiger

“We will also keep implementing security measures in the surrounding areas.”

Zaw also told media that some of the drugs and precursors to make meth pills were buried.

On Feb 25th, Burmese authorities seized large amount of crystal meth and meth pills in Shan state’s Tachileik. Acting on a tip, police seized 9 kilograms of crystal meth from separate cars and arrested three suspects in Tachileik township, and seized a total of 202,000 meth pills in Minekok Township, also in Shan State.

Last June, the Burmese military seized tens of thousands meth pills and precursor chemicals in Tachileik.

In a possibly related development, two Chinese suspects were yesterday arrested in Tachileik for a grisly double murder in Pattaya.

SOURCE: Chiang Rai Times

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Singapore coronavirus patients to have their meals, medicine delivered by robot

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Patients at a Singapore hospital suspected or confirmed to be infected with the Covid-19 coronavirus will soon get their meals and medicines from a robot. What’s more, a second robot is being deployed to clean, and will chat with patients in four languages, as well as “Singlish.”

Details of the use of the robot technology were outlined in Singapore’s Ministry of Health’s (MOH) Committee of Supply debate today. By the end of March, a robot called BeamPro will make its rounds in the hospital’s two isolation wards, a hospital spokesperson said yesterday.

Singapore’s Alexandra Hospital currently has only one confirmed case of Covid-19, which the MOH identified as Case 74, who remains in stable condition after being admitted on February 15. Another 14 suspected cases are in isolation, a hospital spokesperson told a media briefing on yesterday.

BeamPro was housed at the hospital’s Centre for Innovation in Healthcare for more than three months before the coronavirus outbreak, but trials began just two weeks ago. BeamPro makes it possible for patients to be inspected remotely while remaining isolated. said Dr Alexander Yip, Clinical Director of Health Technology at Alexandra Hospital, told the briefing:

“The Covid-19 situation is an opportunity for us to accelerate healthcare transformation. With Covid-19 there was a great opportunity to launch the telepresence robot.”

“The main aim of this telepresence robot is to reduce the unnecessary risk of exposure to healthcare workers by allowing us to move the robot into the room instead.”

Once the robot enters the room, doctors and nurses are able to see the patient via a camera on the robot. The patient, likewise, will see the healthcare professional controlling the robot’s movements via a large screen on the robot.

“We can use BeamPro to ask very basic, simple questions. We take their history and see what we need to find out. And from there, we make the decision as to whether we need to put on the full PPE and go in to examine the patient further. This is always based on the physician’s best judgment.”

BeamPro can be affixed with trays so that it can deliver medications and food, and will also be used for other contagious infections like chicken pox and measles.

A second robot, LionsBot, is being deployed for sweeping, mopping, vacuuming and scrubbing at the hospital, according to a media release issued by the hospital today.

“LionsBot robots are social minglers that bring joy and delight, to engage, entertain, even exchange a simple conversation, in four languages, as well as Singlish.”

In another innovative use of technology, on Feb 20, the hospital also started vCare, a virtual consultation service, conducting virtual consultations for patients via the Zoom platform.

“When patients who are isolated get discharged we always advise [them] to stay at home. And so this is where we leverage our efforts in telemedicine to be able to communicate with these patients at home, in the safety of their home without bringing them back into the hospital or into the community during this period.”

SOURCE: TODAY

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