• The novel corona virus has been spreading since the end of last year – starting from the Chinese metropolis of Wuhan. In the meantime, more than 42,000 people in China have fallen ill and more than 1,000 have died from the consequences of the lung disease.
  • Cases of infection have also been reported in around 30 other countries. There are now fourteen confirmed infections in Germany, including twelve in Bavaria.
  • The virus can be a respiratory illness with high
    Raising fever and causing severe pneumonia. It’s infectious from person to person through droplet infection,
    possibly also via a smear infection.
  • The World Health Organization (WHO) has now given the lung disease caused by the new coronavirus an official name: it is now called Covid-19. *
  • The WHO has also declared an international health emergency. Above all, this enables better coordination of all efforts worldwide to contain the epidemic.
  • All other backgrounds and detailed analyzes can be found on our topic page,

* Correction note: At this point it originally said that
Coronavirus and not lung disease would have the new name Covid-19
 receive. We have corrected that.

According to the WHO a vaccine in about 18 months ready. Until then, it was important to invest in research as well as measures that can now stop the outbreak. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on the states to contribute financially to the $ 675 million targeted for fighting the virus.

We are closing today’s blog about the corona virus.

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An international conference of the WHO takes place today and tomorrow, at which over 400 scientists and researchers a common strategy for researching the corona virus to discuss. The aim of the two-day conference is to develop a roadmap for further research into the virus, General Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Twitter. Vaccines and therapeutics Developing is an important aspect of the strategy, but not the only one. Until the vaccines are developed, countries could take other measures to prevent infections.

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The WHO also has one Crisis Management Team set up to be led by Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO Health Emergencies Program.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has addressed the lung disease caused by the new coronavirus given an official name: Covid-19,

“We had to find a name that didn’t refer to a geographic location, animal, individual, or group of people,” said World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Twitter.

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The Chinese news agency 138763566.htm “> Xinhuathat a research team from South China Agricultural University Pangolin identified as a possible intermediate host of the novel corona virus. So far, however, there is no study in which the researchers describe their findings in more detail. Scientists have been trying to trace the infection chain of the 2019 nCoV virus for a long time. It is considered very likely that the virus originally circulated in bats,—

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The Badminton teams from China and Hong Kong are not allowed to take part in the Asian Championships in Manila. According to the entry requirements of the Philippines, travelers from China, Hong Kong and Macau only have to be quarantined for 14 days, this also applies to the badminton teams. This means that the teams cannot take part in the continental tournament starting today.

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The Auto parts supplier Webasto will reopen its company headquarters in Stockdorf near Munich on Wednesday. After about two weeks ago Employees were infected with the corona virus, the location was closed with around 1,000 employees.——

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Overall had eight employees and four family members infected. Around 180 had been tested. “It looks like our quick and decisive action after the first positive test has broken the infection chain in the company,” says CEO Holger Engelmann. Business trips to China remained prohibited until the end of February.

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One from Hong Kong Cruise ship is not allowed in Thailand dock – for fear of the corona virus. Although there are no known cases of infection on the ship, Thailand’s health minister Anutin Charnvirakul said on Facebook that he had prohibited the ship from mooring.

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So far, 33 cases of the novel virus are known in Thailand,

According to the shipping company, there are around 1,500 guests and 800 crew members on board the cruise ship. The shipping company wrote a few days ago on its homepage that the guests were safe and that they were being well taken care of.

The ship actually wanted to dock 120 kilometers southeast of Bangkok. According to the shipping company, Taiwan and Japan had previously refused to dock.

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The National Health Commission in Beijing has one new definition decree who is considered to be infected by the corona virus: China has therefore only recorded people in the statistics since Friday, if they have symptoms of illness, People who have been diagnosed with the virus but have no symptoms no longer appear in the statistics.

The new definition contradicts the guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO)who considers someone infected to have a 2019 nCoV infection confirmed by a laboratory – with or without symptoms. According to the WHO, infections take a mild course in about 80 percent of cases. It can be assumed that the number of unreported cases of those infected but not registered is very high.

Since the end of last week the increase in newly proven infections with lung disease is no longer growing as strongly as before, To what extent this is due to the new definition of infected is so far unclear.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) starting today international conference on the search for a vaccine against the new type of corona virus. The two-day meeting is designed to help contain the disease.

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Scientists around the world are currently researching both a vaccine and the distribution of respiratory diseases. Shortly after the outbreak of the epidemic in China, the authorities there published the gene sequence for the virus. Several international research teams have already succeeded in breeding the new corona virus in the laboratory.

The international vaccine alliance Cepi had announced a good two weeks ago that a vaccine against 2019-nCoV could Probably in the test phase in summer go.

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