Wuhan coronavirus

Numbers are in. Total confirmed cases are at 14,543, with 2885 new cases, up 756 on yesterday. Total deaths are 759, with 181 new deaths, up 66 on yesterday. Total tested this (24h) period, 8911.

As of 9am on 27 March 2020, a total of 113,777 people have been tested, of which 99,234 were confirmed negative and 14,543 were confirmed positive.
As of 5pm on 26 March 2020, 759 patients in the UK who tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Una selezione delle notizie di oggi.

We heard about the rates of infection doubling every x days some days/weeks ago. It's nice that UK has caught up. Now if they had actually listened back then.......
(UK) Michael Gove reveals TWO MORE emergency hospitals will be built to deal with the onslaught of coronavirus cases as he admits rates are doubling every three days
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8161143/Michael-Gove-admits-coronavirus-infection-rates-doubling-three-days.html

A letter to the UK from Italy: this is what we know about your future
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/27/a-letter-to-the-uk-from-italy-this-is-what-we-know-about-your-future

So, our dear leaders, the three that are supposed to be running this show failed to practice what they preached and are all now quarantined. I suspect over the next few days we will hear of other cabinet members and people that work around BoJo being confirmed positive, if they have the test.
'Nonchalant': Boris Johnson accused of Covid-19 complacency
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/27/nonchalant-boris-johnson-accused-of-covid-19-complacency

(UK) Temporary mortuary for up to 12,000 bodies being built at Birmingham Airport
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-temporary-mortuary-being-built-at-birmingham-airport-11964675

Coronavirus survives on surgical masks for up to SEVEN days but WHO reveals there is only a 'low risk' of catching the virus from newspapers and other delivered goods
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8160885/Coronavirus-survives-surgical-masks-SEVEN-days.html

Trump signs into law largest bailout in US history
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52070718

‘Much-loved’ French girl, 16, with no health conditions is the youngest to die from coronavirus in Europe
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/french-girl-europes-youngest-coronavirus-victim-a4399526.html

I don't understand this. Someone else must have been patient zero to infect to toilet? Or was it dead or alive animals that infected the toilet, or it this just another article to put people off the scent of what really happened?
Wuhan shrimp seller may be coronavirus 'patient zero' and says bug 'came from toilet'
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/wuhan-shrimp-seller-coronavirus-patient-21767997

Coronavirus infects nearly 10,000 Spanish health workers as death toll jumps by 769 in a DAY to 4,858
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11270334/coronavirus-infects-nearly-10000-spain/

You remember that video I posted on the DIY hand sanitizer thread ( here ), the one about what not to drink? Well people do it!
Hundreds dead in Iran from drinking methanol amid fake reports it cures disease
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-coronavirus-methanol-drink-cure-deaths-fake-a9429956.html

Numbers are in. Total confirmed cases are at 17,089, with 2546 new cases, down 339 on yesterday. Total deaths are 1019, with 260 new deaths, up 79 on yesterday. Total tested this (24h) period, 6999.

As of 9am on 28 March 2020, a total of 120,776 people have been tested, of which 103,687 were confirmed negative and 17,089 were confirmed positive.
As of 5pm on 27 March 2020, 1,019 patients in the UK who tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Una selección de las noticias de hoy.

Riots erupt in China's coronavirus epicentre Wuhan - where deadly bug was detected last year – as lockdown travel restrictions are lifted for first time in two months for 11 million people - but they’re STILL not allowed to leave the city
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8162773/Chinas-coronavirus-epicentre-Wuhan-lifts-lockdown-travel-restrictions-time-two-months.html

America soars past 100,000 coronavirus cases as NYC fights 'catastrophe': One New Yorker dies every 17 minutes and 911 calls hit historic highs amid fears hospitals could collapse in nine days as the Big Apple's death toll hits 450
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8162489/US-coronavirus-NYC-fights-catastrophe-one-dies-17-minutes-911-calls-hit-historic-highs.html

More than 800,000 doctors plead with Trump NOT to reopen the country by Easter because it will 'gravely jeopardize the health of all Americans'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8163093/More-800-000-doctors-plead-Trump-NOT-reopen-country-Easter.html

Trump 'considering quarantine on New York'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52079121

Italy suffers biggest one day death toll with nearly 1,000 victims
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1261529/Italy-coronavirus-latest-updates-death-infections-daily-jump

Coronavirus deaths in Spain surge by a record 832 in 24 hours as toll hits 5,690 and ice rink turned into morgue
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11275848/coronavirus-deaths-spain-record/

Spain orders all non-essential workers to stay at home for two weeks
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/28/covid-19-may-be-peaking-in-parts-of-spain-says-official

(UK) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/28/covid-19-may-be-peaking-in-parts-of-spain-says-official
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-nhs-nightingale-field-hospital-london-excel-centre-pictures-a4400486.html

Dyson built a ventilator in just 10 days using its digital motor technology
https://www.techspot.com/news/84583-dyson-built-ventilator-10-days-using-digital-motor.html

How the UK got coronavirus testing wrong
https://www.ft.com/content/fa747fbd-c19e-4bac-9c37-d46afc9393fb

The 26 FOOT sneeze zone: Coronavirus social distancing limit is at least four times TOO SHORT because infectious droplets can fly much further than current 6ft restriction, study warns
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8162697/Social-distancing-EIGHT-metres-avoid-coronavirus-risk.html

Numbers are in early today. Total confirmed cases are at 19,522, with 2433 new cases, down 113 on yesterday. Total deaths are 1,228, with 209 new deaths, down 51 on yesterday. Total tested this (24h) period, 6961.

As of 9am on 29 March 2020, a total of 127,737 people have been tested, of which 108,215 were confirmed negative and 19,522 were confirmed positive.
As of 5pm on 28 March 2020, 1,228 patients in the UK who tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

I have altered the scale of the 'Tested per day' metric. Previously it was x10 as it was off the scale. This has now been changed to a x1 scale in line with the other metrics.