S Korea reports 84 new coronavirus cases (Cases to 977)

Canberra Times ^ | Today | Hyonhee Shin and Josh Smith

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South Korean health authorities say they aim to test more than 200,000 members of a church at the centre of a surge of new coronavirus cases that has taken the country's tally to 977

(Please see link for full story)

[cba123]

Approaching 1,000 now.

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https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6648748/s-korea-reports-84-new-coronavirus-cases/?cs=14232

[ReformedBeckite]

I normally don't go reading articles but I went and read this one. Interesting and disturbing things I found in article, Number one is the size of Church mention in article. Something like 200,000 members, almost to the end of article it said this:

".......Vice Health Minister Kim Kang-lip said the priority was to test some 1300 of the 9200 members of the Daegu church who are showing symptoms, which he said would be completed by Wednesday.......

Did I catch that right ".....9200 members are showing symptoms....." now that is a Hugh amount of people and they have only tested part of those people. Unless these people live in a gated community or compound and never really leave and have no contact with others this should be a bug huge concern for the rest of the world. I wonder how the statistics for this Hugh church compare to that one cruise ship with the thousand of people on it.

[ReformedBeckite]

Last sentence of article:

The US and South Korean militaries said they were considering scaling back joint training due, in one of the first concrete signs of the virus' fallout on global US military activities.

humm interesting so what is the details of the first concrete sign of the virus.....
Is it just prudence to scale back the joint training or is it something more important like US and South Korean militaries are coming down with the virus or showing symptoms of it or are they only going to participate in submarines under water or in aircraft way up in the ski but not with troops on the ground in contact with other troops etc. from other countries like China or any country near China or something like that scenario.

[jonatron]

Ping

[jonatron]

Many countries are restricting entry to SKoreans, and yet the " U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended people practice "enhanced precautions" in Korea, it raised its alert level for travel to Korea to its highest ― Level 3 ― which recommends its citizens to avoid all nonessential travel to the country."

It seems there is a distinct possibility that more infected Skoreans are entering the US, providing an opportunity for this highly virulent plague to spread.

At least we won't be hurting Korean feelings.

[GulfMan]

The CDC is worthless, all airline travel should be halted, now

[sanjuanbob]

This is the time I want to see “ winning” by President Trump. He needs to address the country, with specific numbers and guidelines. Are we to just wait and see or to act proactively?

[null and void]

Total REPORTED cases world wide broke 80,000 last night even before I fell over...

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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.

[ReformedBeckite]

My gut feeling is they are doing stuff behind the scene that isn’t being announced publicly, if not they should be doing more. I think our government might be suppressing news at the moment for fear of creating a panic, if they are doing this it won’t be long before they will have to make some announcements etc. I won’t doubt if by the end of the day we are going to see some major announcements from our government, some more steps taken, and hopefully the stock market doesn’t fall to much today. In the mean while I think the government and many people are holding their breath, crossing their fingers, and doing a lot of praying.