Four hundred forty cases have been confirmed as of Jan. 22.
The bulk are in China, but cases have been confirmed in Thailand, Japan, South Korea and now the US, where man in his 30s in Washington presented with the disease at a local hospital.
A list of confirmed cases and their locations are below:
China: 440 confirmed cases
Thailand: 2 confirmed cases
Japan: 1 confirmed cases
South Korea: 1 confirmed case
US: 1 confirmed case
Australia: 1 suspected case (Brisbane)
Mortality rate in China currently at ~2% with 9 dead.
It sounds like the usual respiratory virus where it hits the ones with chronic lung issues hard. I’m taking the family to Thailand in April so watching this closely. (But not within sneezing distance)
Just heard that a mate of mine was diagnosed with Coronavirus yesterday. He’s pretty upbeat all things considered, says it’s not so bad - his wife has just contracted Lyme disease.
Developed by a researchers from German Centre for Infection Research, the world’s first diagnostic test for the coronavirus has now been made publicly available.