做好基本防疫，不用太害怕

2019年12月31日証實的「武漢冠狀病毒」是此類「冠狀病毒」大家族的一個成員，不像2002的 SARS 及2012的 MERS（仍在傳染中）那麼容易人傳人，而且有時症狀輕微到像普通感冒一般，病人治好了還不知道是得過這種病毒。

上週四 WHO 宣告未達危及全球的程度。

對於這次的「武漢冠狀病毒」，全球經過 SARS的洗鍊警覺度很高。各國都在防疫上很用心，尤其是大陸竟在春節期間封城，扼制散播功不可沒。大家只要做好基本防疫不用太害怕。

詳見樓下兩篇貼文

Coronavirus discovered in Toronto

一名50多歲男子本月22日自武漢返回多倫多後，初步檢驗感染冠狀病毒，但尚需經進一步檢驗確認。患者甚少和外界接觸，目前狀況穩定，其家人已自主隔離。

2019年12月31日証實的「武漢冠狀病毒」是此類「冠狀病毒」大家族的一個成員，不像2002的 SARS 及2012的 MERS（仍在傳染中）那麼容易人傳人，而且有時症狀輕微到像普通感冒一般，病人治好了還不知道是得過這種病毒。

上週四 WHO 宣告未達危及全球的程度（參見樓下貼文）。

節錄部分報導如下：

The newly identified form of the virus has sickened more than 1,320 people and killed at least 41 in China, according to the World Health Organization.

Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. David Williams said the risk to the public is low.

Symptoms include fever, cough and difficulty breathing, as well as pneumonia, kidney failure or death in severe cases.

“Many people will have a very mild form of this disease,” said Peter Donnelly, president of Public Health Ontario.

“Many people in China probably don’t even know they’ve had it, haven’t sought medical care, or if they have sought medical care,  have recovered quite quickly. This is fairly typical of a viral disease.”

Dr. Barbara Yaffe, the province’s associate chief medical officer, noted that the virus is not easily transmitted between individuals.

The new virus was identified on Dec. 31 in China.

It comes from a large family of coronaviruses, some causing nothing worse than a common cold.

But in late 2002, a coronavirus named severe acute respiratory syndrome erupted in southern China, causing a severe pneumonia that rapidly spread to other countries. SARS infected more than 8,000 people and killed 774, including 44 Canadians. Toronto was hard hit in that outbreak.

In 2012, another coronavirus dubbed Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) began sickening people in Saudi Arabia. MERS is still prevalent, causing small numbers of infections each year. The WHO has counted nearly 2,500 cases in the Middle East and beyond, and more than 850 deaths.

Outside China, 23 cases of the illness have been confirmed as of Saturday, according to the WHO. Twenty-one of those individuals had visited Wuhan.

In addition to the Canadian case, on Saturday Australia and Malaysia reported their first cases — four each — and Japan its third.

France confirmed three cases Friday, the first in Europe, and the U.S. identified its second, a woman in Chicago who had returned from China.

On Thursday, the WHO declined to declare the new coronavirus a public health emergency of international concern, saying that would be premature.

詳細報導參見：

Canada’s 1st ‘presumptive’ case of new coronavirus discovered in Toronto

BY RYAN ROCCA AND KERRI BREEN GLOBAL NEWS

Posted January 25, 2020 5:10 pm

Updated January 25, 2020 10:01 pm

https://globalnews.ca/news/6462626/coronavirus-toronto-hospital/?utm_source=notification/

WHO宣佈武漢冠狀病毒未達全球警戒

‘Too early’ to declare China coronavirus a global health emergency: WHO

BY LESLIE YOUNG GLOBAL NEWS

Posted January 23, 2020 1:26 pm

Updated January 23, 2020 2:07 pm

https://globalnews.ca/news/6447327/china-coronavirus-health-emergency-who/?utm_source=notification/

Despite public worry about an emerging virus from Wuhan, China, the World Health Organization said Thursday that it was not yet a public health emergency of international concern.

WHO officials made the announcement following two days of emergency committee meetings of health experts on the virus.

The coronavirus has infected more than 600 people worldwide, though mostly in China. As of Jan. 23, Chinese authorities have reported 17 deaths from the virus so far.

Cases have been reported in China, Thailand, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan and the United States. The virus causes a fever and, in some cases, difficulty breathing.

“Make no mistake, this is now an emergency in China, but this has not yet become a global health emergency,” said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the WHO, on Thursday.

Ghebreyesus also provided some additional details on the virus and the people infected by it.

“We know that this virus can cause severe disease, and that it can kill, although for most people it causes milder symptoms,” he said. “We know that among those infected, one-quarter of patients have experienced severe disease.”

Most of the people who have died had underlying health conditions such as hypertension, diabetes or cardiovascular disease that weakened their immune systems, he said.

While human-to-human transmission has been reported within China, he said, it so far seems to be mostly limited to close family members and health-care workers. There have been no cases of human-to-human transmission outside China so far, but it could happen, he believes.

There will likely be more cases of the virus in China and elsewhere, he said.

Declarations of a public health emergency of international concern are relatively rare.

Only five emergencies have been declared in the past decade: the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014, a polio outbreak in 2014, the Zika virus in 2016, and the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Emergency declarations lead to a boost of public health measures to contain the spread of the illness, as well as funding for the crisis.

The WHO says it will reconvene its emergency committee in approximately 10 days to examine the virus, or earlier, if the director-general decides it’s necessary.

For now, the organization recommends simple measures to keep yourself safe from this and other respiratory viruses, like frequent hand-washing and covering your mouth and nose when you sneeze.

。中央流行疫情指揮中心宣布今日起將疫情等級提升至第二級，由衛生福利部陳時中部長擔任指揮官。行政院院長蘇貞昌及陳其邁副院長下午至指揮中心聽取各部會報告。記者邱宜君／攝影。

武漢肺炎防疫備戰！我中央疫情指揮中心升至第二級

https://udn.com/news/story/120940/4304909?utm_source=news&utm_medium=webpush

2020-01-23 17:45聯合報 記者邱宜君、羅真／台北即時報導

鑒於中國大陸武漢嚴重特殊傳染性肺炎疫情非但沒有平息，武漢市於今(23)日10點起全面停止公眾交通運輸營運，顯示疫情有持續擴大跡象，中央流行疫情指揮中心宣布今日起將疫情等級提升至第二級，由衛生福利部陳時中部長擔任指揮官。

行政院院長蘇貞昌及陳其邁副院長今日下午至指揮中心聽取各部會報告，指示此次防疫應視同作戰，要以嚴謹的態度及最高的準備，做到防疫滴水不漏，各部會務必迅速到位、盤點個管業務，配合現代新科技運用，加強各通路聯繫及衛教宣導，並透過以往的防疫經驗，降低民眾不必要的恐慌。

針對武漢市因應疫情全面停止交通運輸，台商可能滯留武漢一事，目前已通報移民署國境大隊同仁查驗大陸地區人民入境證，如發現居住地或原居住地為武漢者，一律拒絕入境；另通知各航空公司啟程地檢查入境證時，由地勤人員先行檢查入臺證原居住地或出生地欄位，若入臺證該欄位空白未填，則請其出示大陸身分證，若居住地為「湖北省武漢市」者，不准登機來臺。對當前尚停留於武漢的台商，可透過陸委會建立之台商登錄資料一一追管，應主動對其表示關懷，以了解當地實際情況。

依據中國疾控中心截至22日通報資料，目前中國大陸31 省市（不含港澳特別政區）中共24 省市有確診病例，累計確診571例個案，其中95例重症，累計17例死亡。其中1月22日新增8例死亡個案，除1例為53歲外，其餘7例均為65歲以上，分別有癌症術後、肝功能不全、高血壓、糖尿病等慢性潛在性疾病，均為湖北省個案。密切接觸者 5,897人，追蹤中4,928人。其他國家及地區確診個案共11例，包括泰國4例、香港2例，台灣、日本、南韓、美國及澳門各1例。

因應大陸武漢肺炎疫情，指揮中心持續加強疫情監測與邊境管制措施，並針對國際及小三通港埠之入境發燒旅客全面詢問武漢旅遊史及進行健康評估。自去(2019)年12月31日啟動由武漢直航入境班機之登機檢疫，已執行38航班，共檢疫4,625名旅客及機組員，無新增後送個案。昨(22)日新增45例通報，截至目前共通報65名嚴重特殊傳染性肺炎個案，其中1名確診(1月21日已公布)、10名已排除、54名隔離檢驗中。另1月21日確診個案，目前持續於醫院負壓隔離病房治療中，46位接觸者除1位輕微咳嗽無發燒，其餘皆無異常。

指揮中心再次呼籲，中國大陸武漢市旅遊疫情建議已提升至第三級警告(Warning)，且當地公共交通運輸全數暫停營運，提醒民眾如非必要應避免前往當地。若需前往，應落實肥皂勤洗手、咳嗽配戴口罩等個人衛生措施，避免接觸野生動物及急性呼吸道感染症患者，也避免出入傳統市場及醫療院所。自武漢及其鄰近區域返國入境時，如出現發燒、咳嗽、呼吸急促等症狀，無論是否服用退燒藥、止咳藥，請主動向機場或港口檢疫人員報到，接受健康評估；返國14日內出現有發燒、呼吸道症狀時，請撥打免付費防疫專線1922或(0800-001922)專線並依指示配戴口罩儘速就醫，就醫時主動告知醫師旅旅遊史、職業別、接觸史及是否群聚(TOCC)，以及時診斷通報。其他「嚴重特殊傳染性肺炎」相關資訊，可參閱疾管署網站。