Purple mountain observatory of the chinese academy of sciences, Research institute in Beijing, China

The US state of Washington located in the country's west coast has reported its first case of a possibly deadly virus being called the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) with its genesis in China. The patient in question returned from Wuhan, China on January 15, 2020, US health officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed Tuesday.The patient, who presented with symptoms of fever and cough, is now healthy, US officials confirmed.Thailand, Japan, and Korea have also reported cases of the new virus. Symptoms include fever, cough and trouble breathing. Early on, US health officials were connecting the dots from the Wuhan outbreak to a large seafood and animal market, suggesting animal-to-person spread. With a growing number of patients showing symptoms without any exposure to animal markets, CDC is now saying that "person-to-person spread is occurring, though it's unclear how easily or sustainably this virus is spreading between people."A pneumonia outbreak caused by the Novel Coronavirus has been in circulation since December 2019, say officials.Nearly 300 cases of 2019-nCoV have been confirmed in China, mostly in Wuhan, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Six deaths, all in China, have been reported so far. On the CDC's advice, the US has begun public health entry screening at San Francisco, New York (JFK), and Los Angeles airports and plan to expand this week to Atlanta and Chicago. The CDC is reporting that there is "some limited person-to-person spread" happening in Asia. In India, the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) has begun screening passengers arriving from China, including Hong Kong, at Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Cochin, Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata airports.The Indian government is asking all travellers who have sudden onset of symptoms like fever, cough and shortness of breath to self-report to the airport health unit.Coronaviruses, according to the CDC, are a large family of viruses, some causing respiratory illness in people and others circulating among animals. Rarely, animal coronaviruses can infect people and then spread between people, such as has been seen with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). CDC says the immediate health risk from 2019-nCoV to the general American public is low.( With inputs from IANS )

Purple Mountain Observatory Of The Chinese Academy Of SciencesFOLLOW

Purple mountain observatory of the chinese academy of sciences, Latest News

The third edition of Bengaluru Open, an Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Challenger Tour event, has lined up four players ranked under top 100 and 13 players in the top 150, an official said on Wednesday. ...

Secretary at the Union Health Ministry, Preeti Sudan, on Wednesday informed that a total number of 43 flights and 9156 passengers arriving from China have been screened for novel coronavirus illness at seven different airports across the country so f ...

Over 9,000 passengers from 43 flights have been screened at various international airports in India in the wake of outbreak of Coronavirus (nCoV) in the City in China. No case of nCoV has been detected so far here in India. ...

China has advised people against traveling in and out of Wuhan, the city hit by the novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) linked to the deadly Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). ...

China and the United States should strengthen strategic communication and look at each other rationally, Cui Tiankai, the Chinese ambassador to the United States, said. ...

Chinese Ambassador to New Zealand Wu Xi has highlighted the bilateral relationship between the two countries as a "front runner" during her remarks delivered at the Chinese Lunar New Year reception held in Wellington. ...

Senior US diplomat Alice Wells on Tuesday sharply criticised the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) saying that the compes blacklisted by the World Bank had got contracts in the multi-billion dollar project. ...

The US state of Washington located in the country's west coast has reported its first case of a possibly deadly virus being called the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) with its genesis in China. The patient in question returned from Wuhan, China on ...