Russia Discharges Second Chinese Man to Recover From Coronavirus

The Moscow Times ^ | February 12, 2020

[NorseViking]

Russia discharged a Chinese national from hospital in the Siberian city of Chita on Wednesday after he recovered from a coronavirus infection, local authorities said.

He was the second of Russia's two confirmed cases of coronavirus to recover. The other patient, also a Chinese national, was said by authorities on Tuesday to have recovered and been released from quarantine in Siberia's Tyumen region.

Russia has isolated hundreds of Russian and Chinese nationals for virus screening upon arrival from China. A Chinese diplomat was quarantined as a precaution last week in the city of Yekaterinburg.

Russia, which has a 4,300 kilometer (2,670-mile) land border with China, has heavily restricted travel to its neighbour. The flu-like virus has killed more than 1,100 people, all but two in mainland China.

The head of Russia's consumer health watchdog said on Monday that more than 20,000 people were under observation for signs of infection. More than 6,000 of those were Chinese nationals, the official, Anna Popova, said.

Some Russians have opposed quarantine centres being set up in their region and two facilities in the region of Chelyabinsk were shut shortly after being opened because of local protests, the Znak regional media outlet reported.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Does anybody know if you can catch this one twice? Antibodies possibility?

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Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[null and void]

Does anybody know if you can catch this one twice? Antibodies possibility?

Know? No.

The current speculation us that there will be some immunity, maybe 3-5 years worth with the further caveat that RNA viruses mutate frequently and that could duck under the immune system's radar.

[TigerClaws]

The incubation period is 24 days.

The quarantine period is two weeks.

What could go wrong?...

[NorseViking]

Median period is 3 days. Only one person had it at 24 says so far.

[Ellendra]

It depends on how frequently it mutates. As far as I know there isn’t enough information to say for sure, but at least one article has said that recovering from the virus does not render the patient immune.