ROME – AND’ alert in China because of a mysterious viral pneumonia that has so far already infected 44 people, 11 of whom are in serious conditions. Airports have taken the precautions to report possible suspect cases, and limit the infections, with the terror of a return from the Sars virus that killed thousands of people between 2002 and 2003. The infection was reported for the first time on the 24th of December last year, the Wuhan city of central China with a population of over 11 million.
on Thursday, the epidemic has given rise to fears in Hong Kong when a woman, who had been in Wuhan during the Christmas holidays, has been hospitalized for a respiratory infection. The mid-day of Saturday, the authorities of the hospital of Hong Kong had reported a total of eight suspected cases and alert health has been raised to the level of “serious”. Three were in care in conditions of isolation in a public hospital, while the other five were discharged.
In mainland China, the authorities have reported that the main group of recent infections is concentrated around a food market in Wuhan, where they were sold wild animals. The cause has not yet been identified and not exclusive of, it can be respiratory diseases like common flu, avian flu, and adenovirus infection.
so Far, chinese officials have stated that there has been no transmission from man to man, but Ho Pak-leung, director of the Centre for infections at the University of Hong Kong, has recommended to the city to prepare for this possibility. “The preventive measures should be as strict as possible,” said I to the public service broadcaster of Hong Kong Rrthk, urging the government of continental to provide real-time updates.
Yesterday, I installed more thermal imaging systems at the Hong Kong international airport to check body temperature of travellers arriving from Wuhan. In Singapore, the ministry of health has announced that all travelers arriving from Wuhan would have been subject to controls of the body temperature.
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