Virus

Papa Lazarou wrote:Nemačka, Francuska i Španija će isto tako za najviše 10 dana. Matematika je neumoljiva.

bemty wrote:

Papa Lazarou wrote:Nemačka, Francuska i Španija će isto tako za najviše 10 dana. Matematika je neumoljiva.

sva sreca pa smo mi u uk vec napustili evropsku zajednicu

BRUSSELS: A second case of novel coronavirus was confirmed among the European Union staff in Brussels, a European official told AFP on Wednesday, just hours after the first on was reported.

The infected person works in a security unit of the European Council — which represents EU member states — and is believed to have been in contact with a previous case in Belgium, he said.

Identifying the first victim of the virus, a European Defence Agency spokesperson confirmed that a male public servant of the agency had returned from Italy on February 23 and subsequently tested positive.

Meetings at the headquarters of the Brussels-based agency have been cancelled until March 13, Elisabeth Schoeffmann said.

Papa Lazarou wrote:Italija zatvorila sve škole i univerzitete u zemlji.

Odkrili prvo okužbo s koronavirusom tudi pri nas. Minister Šabeder bo podal izjavo ob 21.30.

— Marjan Šarec (@sarecmarjan) March 4, 2020

Coronavirus lingers in rooms and toilets but disinfectants kill it

AFP
March 4, 2020

Washington (AFP) - New research from Singapore published Wednesday showed that patients with the novel coronavirus extensively contaminate their bedrooms and bathrooms, underscoring the need to routinely clean high-touch surfaces, basins and toilet bowls.

The virus was however killed by twice-a-day cleaning of surfaces and daily cleaning of floors with a commonly used disinfectant -- suggesting that current decontamination measures are sufficient as long as people adhere to them.

The research letter was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and comes after cases in China where the pathogen spread extensively through hospitals, infecting dozens of health care workers and other patients.

This led scientists to believe that, beyond catching the infection through coughing, environmental contamination was an important factor in the disease's transmission, but its extent was unclear.

Researchers at Singapore's National Centre for Infectious Diseases and DSO National Laboratories looked at the cases of three patients who were held in isolation rooms between late January and early February.

They collected samples from their rooms on five days over a two-week period.

The room of one patient was sampled before routine cleaning, while the rooms of the other two patients were sampled after disinfection measures.

The patient whose room was sampled before cleaning had the mildest symptoms of the three, only experiencing a cough. The other two had moderate symptoms: both had coughing and fever, one experienced shortness of breath and the other was coughing up mucus.

Despite this disparity, the patient whose room was sampled before cleaning contaminated 13 of 15 room sites tested, including a chair, the bed rail, a glass window, the floor, and light switches.

Three of the five toilet sites were also contaminated, including the sink, door handle and toilet bowl -- more evidence that stool can be a route of transmission.

Air samples tested negative, but swabs taken from air exhaust outlets were positive -- which suggests that virus-laden droplets may be carried by air flows and deposited on vents.

The two rooms that were tested after cleaning had no positive results.

"Significant environmental contamination by patients with SARS-CoV-2 through respiratory droplets and fecal shedding suggests the environment as a potential medium of transmission and supports the need for strict adherence to environmental and hand hygiene," the authors wrote.

SARS-CoV-R is the official name of the pathogen.

The virus, which was first identified in China's Hubei province in December, has now infected more than 95,000 people in 81 countries and territories, killing more than 3,200.

The World Health Organization said Wednesday the mortality rate among reported cases was 3.4 percent, revising upward previous estimates.

But there is likely significant underreporting around the world and the disease's true lethality will only be better understood over time.

Први случајеви вируса корона у Српској: Обољели отац и син, ђаци школе "Бранко Ћопић" на тестирању
БАЊАЛУКА – Министар здравља и социјалне застите РС Aлен Шеранић потврдио је данас да је тестирањем код једног ђака Основне школе "Бранко Ћопић" у Бањалуци, чији је отац такође заражен, потврђен вирус корона, а у току су тестирања дјеце која су била у контакту са обољелим.
Дјечак је тестиран након што је вирус откривен код његовог оца, Шеранић је истакао да се може очекивати још случајева, али да нема мјеста за панику.
- Са директорком школе смо договорили мјере и ђаци не иду у школу. Супруга, односно мајка обољелих је негативна на вирус као и и одређене особе које су биле у контаксту с њима – истакао је Шеранић и додао да се дијете и отац осјећају добро.
В.Д ди­ре­кто­ра Ин­сти­ту­та за ја­вно здрав­ство Ре­пу­бли­ке Српске Бра­ни­слав Зе­лјко­вић рекао је да ће у Институту данас вршити тестирање дјеце која су била у контакту са обољелим.

The total number of the new coronavirus cases in Greece has risen to 31, after 21 more people who came in contact with the country’s ninth confirmed case tested positive, Greek Health Ministry spokesman Dimitris Tsiodras said in press briefing on Thursday.
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The new cases emerged as health authorities traced and tested everyone believed to have come into close contact with the 65-year-old Greek man who is being treated at an isolation unit at a hospital in Patras, western Greece.

These contacts include 53 people who had traveled on the same bus as him during a recent religious pilgrimage to Israel and Egypt.

According to sources, the man is being treated for a serious respiratory infection. The 65-year-old’s wife has also tested positive and was the tenth reported case.

Tsiodras said doctors have tested 21 of the man’s fellow travellers and identified more than 400 of his contacts and tested those who were deemed suspicious. Authorities are also tracing all the contacts of the new cases.

At the same time, he said authorities expect a “significant increase” in the number of confirmed cases in the coming weeks and urged citizens to “adhere religiously” to the preventive measures announced by the experts.