spouse of scouse

Some very good points in that article. There's a post elsewhere on BE about not buying any more Chinese takeaways and not going into shops with Chinese staff.

caretaker

Aussies isolate the virus, paving the way for parallel vaccine research with other countries.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/australi...ay-for-vaccine

scrubbedexpat091

Air Canada is suspending service to Beijing and Shanghai through end of February. BA has done the same to mainland China, American Airlines plans to suspend service between Los Angeles and Shanghai and Beijing from Feb 9th to March 27th citing decreased demand to China.

Cathay Pacific has reduced flight to mainland China by roughly half.

Air India is suspending Delhi-Shanghai.





https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/cor...avel-1.5444326

Danny B

Canada needs to build a wall and the coronavirus is going to pay for it.

caretaker

Who did the government hire to fly the Canadians out?

Siouxie

Conspiracy theorists suggest that perhaps it was created in a lab.. https://www.globalresearch.ca/chinas...-facts/5701662
and https://www.ccn.com/could-the-deadly...iller-disease/

caretaker

The evil Dr Barlow made it in his lab on Skull Mountain in the Caymans. There's a conspiracy theory for you.

scrubbedexpat091

My guess it will either be Air Canada or a government plane if Canadian military has anything capable, or maybe they will outsource to US, I can't find anything beyond vague articles saying Canada is planning to send a plane but no mention of who is providing the plane, but if going with a passenger airline, my money would be on Air Canada.

Zoe Bell

yet another webinar with very little useful information i can use.
interesting point was that the CDC are expecting this situation to hit its peak as late as April or May

scrubbedexpat091

US has it's first case of human to human transmission, the woman in Chicago infected someone who lives with her.

US did a good job at containing SARS so hopefully the same will occur with this virus.

Zoe Bell

PHEIC declared by WHO

Danny B

Some very helpful information about the virus in this tweet.

Twitter

scrubbedexpat091

Gotta love the Onion.

scrubbedexpat091

US issued a level 4 red warning urging USC not to travel to China at all.

Previous warning was to avoid non-essential travel.

As of 12:45am PST Canada still showing only to avoid non-essential travel.

AA pilots in the US are trying to get a court order to force the airline to suspend flights, the crews dont want to fly to China they typically spend 32 hours on layover before their return back to the US.

scrubbedexpat091

10 tweets from the BCCDC about corona virus.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...quiz-1.5447025