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On January 31st, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying vowed that China could control the coronavirus epidemic.
This followed an announcement by the World Health Organization that said the novel coronavirus outbreak has become a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), an international emergency.
“Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus epidemic, the Chinese government has been taking the most comprehensive and rigorous prevention and control measures with a high sense of responsibility for people’s health,” Hua said, adding that many of these measures go well beyond the requirements of the International Health Regulations. “We have full confidence and capability to win this fight against the epidemic.”
Beijing said there are at least 9,692 people confirmed to have the infection, which has spread from Wuhan’s Hubei province to every one of China’s 31 provinces.
The death toll reached 213, and approximately 102,000 people are under observation with possible symptoms.
Significantly, the US and South Korea both confirmed their first cases of human-to-human transmissions of the coronavirus.
Russia closed its land border with China to prevent the spread of the virus.
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has ordered the closure of the country’s Far East border to prevent the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
“The order was signed today and has taken effect,” Mishustin said. “We’ll inform everyone today about the border-closure measures in the Far East region and other activities taken by the Russian government [on coronavirus prevention],” he said.
More countries and airlines are halting their flights to China, including France in their entirety. Kenya Airway and Rwandair suspended all flights to China. Turkish Airlines suspended its China routes.
The US warned Americans not to travel to China, as the American Airlines pilots union filed a case to stop all travel to China.
“Do not travel to China due to novel coronavirus first identified in Wuhan, China. On January 30, the World Health Organization has determined the rapidly spreading outbreak constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Travelers should be prepared for travel restrictions to be put into effect with little or no advance notice. Commercial carriers have reduced or suspended routes to and from China.”
“Those currently in China should consider departing using commercial means,” the department said in the advisory.
Meanwhile, Italy confirmed its first case of the virus and Germany its 5th.
The International Monetary Fund is monitoring the crisis as economic tensions appear to be growing.
Stocks ramping on WHO promoting tourism to China, before reversing after China announces over 10,000 cases at 6pm
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) January 30, 2020
The economic tensions and fluctuations are leading to speculation that China is purchasing shares in tech companies to spread its influence, as it claims that completely dealing with the rapidly spreading coronavirus is just a matter of time.
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Meanwhile Air New Zealand continues to fly to China as if nothing has happened. Clearly no-one there reads much, because a study of 1918 will tell you all you need to know.
Well Jacinda is too busy with the baby and the Kiwi deatbeat economy is totally dependent of PRC and so is Australia, so they really can bite the hand that feeds them. This is hardly a surprise. Thank the fucking greedy Jews for “globalization” as bugs will crawl up their arse too.
Well Jacinda is LDS, they have ‘the Messianic Expectation’, which isn`t much different from the jews: ‘Messiah (mâšîah, “the anointed one”): Jewish religious concept, a future savior who will, in some sense, come to restore Israel.’
You got to have a good plague with that one, and an ‘exodus’ (mass migration of people) and -I nearly forgot- a nice bloody war in the levante too. Now the last two stuff things we have, so Jacinda must make plague – otherwise she won’t be a good Mormon: https://www.myjewishlearning.com/rabbis-without-borders/what-jews-can-learn-from-mormons/
She also went to Uni on a Masonic scholarship, and is a confessed Marxist. So pick your influence :)
Worked for Satanist Tony Blair too. So yes there is a long list. Still I had a friend who was LDS and the highst fear factor in his life was LDS, which requires absolute obedience, and enforced by their special methodes…
The Chinese are hiding the scope of the problem and this looking more like something the evil Americunts would plant in terms of biological warfare. Just watch as a total travel ban to China comes into effect and knocks the Chinese economic growth to negative territory.
If true, I hope america gets the brutal karma it deserves, and fast
This event shows how fragile the world economic system is. This virus could cause a global recession if demand in China diminished significantly.
The “global recession” is already here.
And the only way they prevent it to manifest itself is by using totally rigged global economy (and even more rigged dollar).
So the only way for that artificially propped up rigged system to survive is not to be put under stress test because extremely fragile and can totally collapse.
This virus has US biologic warfare signature.
By digging grave to China US can fall into that grave even much earlier .
And China even if they fall they will rise immediately since they are World industrial Super Power
I must apologize for being aggressive on you criticizing Iran Islamic regime.
I will not do that again.
I was thinking wrongly that I was on the right side of the story.
But I was wrong.
Many people in that Shia-Islamist group on SF are hidden enemies of Russia only giving lip service to Russia and often not even that.
I am convinced now that Iran and their Shia “allays” bunch are bad allays for Russia.
And that Russia should not ever trust them.
Because Russians considered Christians thus secretly despised by those people and they only seek to take advantage of Russia and nothing else.
The only true allay for Russia is China and they don’t need any other..
Thank you. I appreciate it.
I think Putin is very smart in maintaining good relations with many countries.
A world power like Russia should be as neutral as possible in local struggles / crises. This is a privilege of a world power, no one expects Russia to support it completely and to ignore the Russian interest.
Those were the wise words in the comment.
And I think that Russia despite big difficulties sometimes, tries to keep posture of good relations with everybody in the Middle east.
So they took good direction from the start and have made it even better by trying to have dialogue with Turkey as well.
Since bottom line is that Turkey needs (with Assad or not) peace in united Syria..
To continue development of her already troubled economy they need peaceful and stable Syria much more than Turk controlled patch of land there.
Allies have common interests, that is what motivates them. The Iranians have no reason to betray the Russians, but the Russians under Zionist influence may fail to help their ally leading to a greatly weakened position for both countries.
Who are you or Iran to judge about Russia’s choices?
Russians doesn’t depend on Iran at all…and never will.
Iran has their own policy in Syria just like Assad his own.
Assad don’t follow Iran either.
They both often don’t go in the same direction as Russia..
That is their right…but there is consequence for that also..
Russia will not ask them when and why they will see to her own interests also, like they do in their turn…
Russia only needs China as an allay…nobody else really.
While Iran tries to fill the shoes of regional power and thinking that
Russia “must” help them in doing that.
?!?
No!!
Russia is nobodies servant and can’t care less about Iran’s desires.
Yeah, nothing warms me more than reading what some obscure rats from whereever drools about Russia.
DO continue, this is what some of us have know all the time, of course one could always prodject other opinions, hope for other directions, more involvments, but the truth is, just like this Ruskierat is saying, never ever trust Russians or Russia for that matter, an real shithole, filled to the brim with stupid drunkards and the rest is just petty criminals, and I have been in Russia, so I know what YOU are.
Now you all can see it, the freak show made by Lavrov the Lame and the ZioNazi spittliker Putin is about, the sole reason for this war to continue, is because they are scums, and thanks again ZP, I know you are genuine Russian, because of your irrational insane belife in whatever nonsense the ZioNazis can charf up.
Drunkard always ends up, like speedfreaks as paranoic nuttcases, this ZP is no exseption, and of course anyone whom is sucking up to the spitlikker in charge Putin must be an hidden Moooslem, right, because of our attacks on your friends the Bolshewiks in the shithole ISISrael.
Stupid creep.
And about Iran, and the Arab world in general, I hope they notice this persons writings because they are in fact true when it comes to what Russians are, but the ad-homeniems on the rest of us, I place that on been just an ignorant drunkard, aka an Russian.
Again, thanks, nothing taste as truth this days, huh, bitter sweet, but never the less, I am gratefull.
peace
Why are they letting people fly out? There should be a total travel/exit ban