ACTIVE CASES in CHINA
1,031 Currently Infected Patients
950 (92%) in Mild Condition
81 (8%) Serious or Critical
And even with that low threat everyday precautions remain in place in Shanghai where everybody still wears masks, stays inside a fair amount, temp checks still relatively common, etc.
There's a minor outbreak around the remote NE border with Russia.
27 new cases today. They're putting resources into it, and will likely contain things up there. Keep it from the big cities up that way.
CHina trying to prepare for a possible 2nd wave. To get on a domestic flight in China, besides the basics of a temp check, you have to scan 2 QR codes. One permits the gov't to see your mobile phone location over the past 14 days. The other registers which flight you were on for contact tracing purposes in case any passengers or crew or perhaps airport personnel come down with the virus later. Then on arrival you scan another health code so the local gov't know who you are, how you arrived and where you've been the previous 2 weeks.
I don't know if that would fly in the US. But that's flight travel in the age of coronavirus. Is it a perfect system? Of course not, but it's a coordinated nationwide system and will help limit transmissions if someone on a flight does contract the virus.
Other countries -- Australia, Austria, UK and probably more -- are trying to get people to voluntarily download a tracking app. The idea is to have all the data anonymous, but if someone becomes infected, the system can pull out all the phones that were in close proximity within the past 10 days or whatever and send a warning message to each potential contact. Somewhat of an untested method, but could prove useful. Australai said that they'd likely need 40% of the pop to sign up to make it effective.
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