Pacni99a12
All Star
Something's gotta give man. At some point we have to cut off travel from China or anyone that has been there recently. 4 major diseases in the last 60 something years have come from there and we can't force them to change
I'm live and am from NYC and have a fairly large extended social circle. My mother is a nurse, my grandmother is a retired principal, my dad retired from transit and my cousin is the principal of one of the most well known public high school's in Brooklyn. Not one of them knows anyone who has got this virus yet. I'm curious as to where these numbers are coming from. If anyone else is in the NYC area and can comment of knowing someone personally or someone you know knowing someone, I'd like to hear. I'm not saying the authorities are lying...I'm saying nobody I know is aware of anyone in their circles who is affected. Every1 has just been quarantined.
- New Zealand has been lifted to alert level three and alert level four in 48 hours.
- Alert level 4 starts at 11.59pm on Wednesday.
- Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said community transmission is a possibility in New Zealand now. She said, "staying at home is essential".
- All non-essential businesses must close in 48 hours. This includes bars, restaurants, cinemas, playgrounds. Essential services will remain open.
- All indoor and outdoor events are banned.
- Schools will close from tomorrow.
- Supermarkets will remain open.
- All of these measures will remain in place for about four weeks. The government will have zero tolerance for people ignoring these restrictions, and police will be used to enforce them if required.
- The government is freezing rent increases to ease the pressure of restrictions.
- The wage subsidy cap has been lifted to $9.1 billion.
- There are 36 new coronavirus cases in New Zealand, bringing the total confirmed count to 102.
- Most cases are linked to recent overseas travel, however, there are two that aren't linked to travel.
Meanwhile China getting back up and running
Wuhan, the centre of the coronavirus outbreak in China, has begun to loosen its two-month lockdown on citizens as more countries issued new restrictions to contain the pandemic.
On Monday, small groups of residents in the central Chinese city were leaving their residential compounds, going to grocery stores and walking along the streets for the first time in weeks. At the weekend, the first train arrived in the city ferrying more than 1,000 workers from elsewhere in the province back to the city for work.
On Sunday, local authorities said residents could begin returning to work if they did not have a temperature and could provide a green health code, signifying their virus-free status as well as a certificate from their employer. Officials said the city would be “gradually” reopened and public transportation would resume.
In another sign that normal life was starting to return in China, there were reports of traffic jams in Beijing on Monday morning.
Wuhan eases coronavirus lockdown as restrictions intensify outside China
I'm live and am from NYC and have a fairly large extended social circle. My mother is a nurse, my grandmother is a retired principal, my dad retired from transit and my cousin is the principal of one of the most well known public high school's in Brooklyn. Not one of them knows anyone who has got this virus yet. I'm curious as to where these numbers are coming from. If anyone else is in the NYC area and can comment of knowing someone personally or someone you know knowing someone, I'd like to hear. I'm not saying the authorities are lying...I'm saying nobody I know is aware of anyone in their circles who is affected. Every1 has just been quarantined.