Coronavirus Updates And The Homeless
Studies suggest that the number of people who have left China carrying the disease is significantly higher than would be inferred from the cases so far reported to have cropped up elsewhere, strongly suggesting that the virus's spread has been underestimated.
Update 8:52 a.m. EDT March 23: Matt Hancock, the United Kingdom's health secretary said citizens who fail to practice social distancing are very selfish.†Hancock made his comments Monday as government officials prepared to step up actions to keep people apart.
At a press briefing, Chris Whitty, chief medical officer for England, said it is now highly improbable that the virus can be made to go away†Patrick Vallance, the UK's chief scientific adviser, said it was not possible to put a timeline on when the country will be able to relax its measures for controlling the virus.
BERLIN — Health officials in Berlin are calling on the chronically ill and people with symptoms of strokes or heart attacks not to avoid seeking necessary medical treatment during the coronavirus crisis. About 8.5 percent of people tested have been positive for COVID-19, according to the health district.
San Diego health officials said 174 new COVID-19 cases were reported Saturday and no new deaths. There is little evidence supporting the widespread use of surgical masks by healthy people. And as the number of presumptive positive test results in Johnson County increased the past week, county officials and local agencies prepared for more potential spread and Iowans grappled with their new normal for now.
Around lunchtime on March Carnival Cruises 5, the ship's captain, John Smith, announced a quarantine over the ship's public address system. Today China's president Xi Jinping pledged $2 billion to the WHO over two years to help fight coronavirus. Update 3:32 a.m. EDT March 23: A California inmate has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, signaling the first COVID-19 patient within the state's prison system.
Leaders there recently locked down the country after its cases spiked - currently there are more than 12,000 cases of COVID-19 and 800 deaths in a country of 60 million, second only to China's 80,000 cases and 3,100 deaths out of 1.3 billion people. Foreign passengers will be sent home on charter flights from a section of Oakland International Airport where they can avoid contact with the general public, officials said at the briefing.