South Korea reports 169 new coronavirus cases, total tops 1,100

Straits Times ^ | Today

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SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea's coronavirus case total jumped well into four figures on Wednesday (Feb 26) as authorities reported 169 new infections, taking the overall tally to 1,146, by far the largest outside China.

(Please see link for full article)

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The numbers, keep on increasing, rather rapidly.

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https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-reports-169-new-coronavirus-cases-total-tops-1100

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Wasn’t in the 30’s earlier?

[Crucial]

The CDC is warning Americans that there will be a coronavirus outbreak. They just don’t know how bad it’s going to be. Nasty Nancy is already attacking Trump over his response at a time when politics should be out on the back burner. San Francisco has declared a health emergency. It’s already a health emergency and when coronavirus takes hold, and it will worse than anywhere else due to contact with China and the fact that it’s a petri dish for bacteria.

[SpeedyInTexas]

“Members of the Christian sect linked to a cluster of coronavirus cases in South Korea held meetings in Wuhan until December, only stopping when they realised that their community had been hit by Covid-19, the previously unknown disease caused by the virus”

Wuhan China. Great place to have a meeting.

Couldn’t the sect have met at Disneyworld in Florida? Just saying...

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Is here anyway to mutate this virus so it only attacks people with single digit IQs like Nancy and destroys their vocal cords?

[SpeedyInTexas]

“Members of the Christian sect linked to a cluster of coronavirus cases in South Korea held meetings in Wuhan until December, only stopping when they realised that their community had been hit by Covid-19, the previously unknown disease caused by the virus”

BTW, that quote was from https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3052322/coronavirus-secretive-south-korean-church-linked-outbreak-held

[balch3]

Politics are never on the back burner. President Trump should go on the offensive and place the blame squarely on the Democrats.

[Deaf Smith]

Hong Kong sure is quiet these days.

Have not heard anything about their protest in weeks.

Not even about Corona V there.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Then they’d have to worry about the “HIV virus” as Ervin Johnson called it

[radu]

Part of the reason their numbers are increasing is they’re testing thousands of people daily.

The CDC has tested a total of 426 people here.

[radu]

Yes. Eight days ago, their total was 31.

[Sedona13]

Commie president Moon is allowing Chinese to enter Korea without any restrictions. 70000 chinese college students alone enter korea this week and next

[radu]

Maybe he’ll rethink that decision.
I don’t have a link to the Yonhap article but the Tweet was just shown on AgendaFreeTV.

“South Korean presidential Blue House in state of “emergency” after it emerged an assistant to Daegu’s deputy mayor who contracted COVID-19 was I close contact with others who had a direct meeting with President Moon Jae-in yesterday in Daegu.”

If he gets a good enough scare, or catches the virus himself, he might have different feelings about bringing more people who cloud spread the virus even more.

Maybe not.

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The numbers, keep on increasing, rather rapidly.

It's just a cold!

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.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

Seems to be highly contagious.

But I’m thankful I’m such a huge slob that my immune system is probably special forces tier, armed with rocket launchers and whatnot. I’ll be fine.

Rest of yous are screwed though.

[11th_VA]

Bloomberg TV just reported first US Soldier in Korea has the virus - unable to find story on the wires yet

[FlipWilson]

Just remember, if the impeachment trial was still going on, the Democrats would care the less about the Coronavirus.

[11th_VA]

Washington Post:

SEOUL, South Korea — U.S. military says soldier based in South Korea tested positive for a new virus, the first U.S. service member infected.

[FlipWilson]

While the President was busy finding a way to combat the a Coronavirus outbreak, the Democrats were busy impeaching Trump.