it looked quite frankly scary suddenly
in just one day more than 15,000 newly
confirmed cases of novel coronavirus or
covered 19 and 254 deaths even the World
Health Organization seemed taken by
surprise but it was we were told a
change in diagnosis doctors and who Bay
province can now confirm a case with
lung imaging rather than having to wait
days for lab results this allows
clinicians to move and report cases more
quickly not having to wait for a lab
confirmation ensuring that people get to
clinical care more quickly and also
allows Public Health responses in terms
of contact tracing and other important
public health measures to be initiated
whatever the true scale and many have
said it's far larger than the official
figures show they are battling to
contain it here at its heart and Wuhan
and Hubei Province more soldiers have
been sent and the crisis is unabated we
are well-prepared to work in the place
with the harshest conditions we can
surely win the battle this picture
widely shared on social media shows one
apartment block and who they province
being sealed off while today wartime
measures barring residents from leaving
their apartments without permission were
introduced in another who Bay district
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the International toll remains low 447
reports from 24 other countries and two
deaths nearly half of those confirmed
cases are from the diamond princess
docked off Yokohama now officially the
biggest cluster of covered 19 outside
China interesting for scientists a
nightmare for the passengers and crew
they are still in quarantine
but today in the world the Brits
evacuated from Wuhan were finally set
free after 14 days heading home or to
the pub well the weather is absolutely
magnificent some good fresh air and very
very very happy that obviously all 83 of
us have tested negative for the virus
nine cases
have been confirmed in England the most
recent a woman who contracted the virus
in China she arrived at lure sham
Hospital in South London in an uber taxi
contrary to official advice to stay at
home and bring one-one-one if you feel
ill in the case in London yesterday this
person reported her infection very
quickly and so in that particular case
she was isolated very fast and so the
risk to the public from that particular
imported case is very low so the key
thing is how many contacts does that
initial case and contacts have been up
that initial case how many contacts to
those individuals have nevertheless to
hospital staff members are now on
self-isolation
and uber said without a hint of irony
that out of an abundance of caution they
temporarily suspended the drivers
account masks have become the potent
symbol of this epidemic despite the fact
they offer little or no protection
against the virus but today the British
Dental Association warned of a chronic
shortage 50% of masks are made in China
well here in our practice I probably go
through at least 20 master day some
dentists work in NHS practice assessing
over 30 35 patients a day and you're
changing the mask every time and now
dentists have warned that they may have
to down drills if they can't find more
supplies Vittoria McDonald reporting now
the Chinese artist and dissident eye
Weiwei has had his share of clashes with
the authorities in his home country over
the years his work has often highlighted
the lack of openness in China and the
impact that has had on ordinary people I
went to meet him in a studio in Berlin
where he told me that modern China is
partly a creation of the West like today
we thought the west and kept feeding it
for past 30 years you know the best
partner is to fire a dictator to work
for you because you produce anything you
cannot produce and then you you can
sacrifice all those rice and you just
have to close your eye and receive all
those schools from aboard so we in the
West have fed this giant thing
fed you it's a part of the West that
designed to crazies China but now are
getting too big
we've created a monster yes of course
it's not something called you can get
rid of it it's not possible there was an
assumption in the West that as China
becomes richer it will become more open
and more liberal that is clearly wrong
isn't it I think that kind of thinking
is only come from the people desperately
want business from China Communist Party
is it just a one big Mafia family you
know it's no ideology but what China is
much dangerous because it's so flexible
so practical it moves like water and
it's my water it also like the virus you
know it changes its own how do you call
the various one one say it mutates yeah
yeah the coronavirus this is the perhaps
the biggest challenge for China you know
in its for modern China perhaps since in
1949
I think the krona crisis or virus crisis
as only reflects certain deep problem
with China you know if we talk about
death toll as a few hundred people like
a one jet hit to the ground but the the
earthquake I created huge hundred times
more than the yes because people make
people make clear again about how
impossible to control a situation like
this there's no transparency under no
trust in that society
you know the trust very often we're not
talking about is the most important
value are the immigrants in a society
under China never establish it how do
you think the coronavirus might change
society it's not very clear isn't that
you know even people can feel very
disappointed sad but you shouldn't
forget this Constitution happened not
just first time you know 2003 yes which
many many apartments that we behave the
exact the same first hide the
information and the never really led any
foreign people or independent research
to be involved and also before that 2008
you have earthquake and that 5,000
students disappear suits were cute today
they don't give out the names you know
and 1989 is another time is worth and
who knows how many people that I mean
China taking this very calmly you know
they're not nervous
no say although there's been an economic
impact felt already you know the stock
markets in Shanghai and shaking it down
it's okay you think this short-term
stuff this short-term they know our
business will come back you know it come
get back for a reason they know who who
need them and they also very carefully
calculating situation do you think the
West can survive in its competition with
China as it is at the moment can it even
win the argument against China I think
they already lost the argument against
China they never really know China and
they always live under their own
assumptions about China but the West can
survival cannot survive only because
their own internal problem you know
there are so-called democracy or their
own situation in relating to afraid of
personal freedom or human rights so
finally just where do you see yourself
fitting in you know you you've left
China obviously don't find too charlie
don't fit in here you might not fit into
Britain where do you know I'm a misfit
yeah understand the words
I'm I was born as a misfit so I don't
know you know I'm gonna disappear so
nobody cares so I will wait thank you
very much thank you
this matter of you get an original work
and then it's like a van Gogh made your
portraits right