The New York Stock Exchange recorded brutal losses this Thursday. The Dow Jones index, the main indicator of financial markets, lost 1,200 points at the close of operations this Thursday, with the worst week since the financial crisis of 2008.
The Dow Jones has lost more than 3,000 points this week, or 10% of earnings, including a decrease of 1,031 points on Tuesday and 879 points on Wednesday.
The index S&P 500 fell 4.4% and the Nasdaq Composite It fell around 4.6%. The actions related to transport, technological actions and the energy sector were the most affected, as the fear spreads that the coronavirus epidemic strangles the global economy.
The Dow Jones started Thursday like on a roller coaster. It recorded losses even before the start of operations, with a fall of 400 points in the future bond market, after the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) confirm a case of coronavirus of “unknown origin” in Sacramento County, California. The patient had not traveled to virus-infected areas and was not exposed to anyone who had the virus, the CDC said.
Investor fears seem not to have diminished following the message of President Donald Trump that his administration has the situation under control and is “ready to adapt” if the virus spreads.
While Trump acknowledged that the markets had fallen this week due to fears of the coronavirus, he said Wednesday that he believed the fall was probably also due to “the Democratic candidates on the stage cheating themselves.”
The CDC did not immediately examine the patient
David Lubarsky, director of the University of California, Davis Health, asked the CDC for a coronavirus test for this patient on February 19. But the federal agency declined.
On Sunday, the CDC reversed their decision and ordered the test, and on Wednesday the federal agency confirmed that the patient had tested positive for the coronavirus, according to Lubarsky.
The CDC did not immediately respond to a request for comments from the NBC on Wednesday night.
Following the fact that the latter case has come to light in California, the state governor, Gavin Newsom, reported that 8,400 people are being monitored by the coronavirus.
“This is a fluid situation at the moment and I want to emphasize that the risk to the American public is still low,” said Dr. Sonia Y. Angell, director of the California Department of Public Health and State Health Officer during a conference of press. “There have been a limited number of confirmed cases to date.”
The first case of community infection of coronavirus in the United States?
The affected person resides in Solano County, northeast of San Francisco; This city was already in a state of emergency due to the disease. He is admitted to a Sacramento hospital, while California authorities track people he was in contact with in search of new outbreaks.
The other 59 confirmed cases in the United States had been evacuated from Wuhan, China, from Diamond Princess, or had made trips abroad or been in contact with travelers who had returned from abroad.
“It is possible that this is an instance of community spread of COVID-19, which would be the first time this has happened in the United States. Community spread means the spread of a disease whose source of infection is unknown. It is also possible, however, that the patient has been exposed to a traveler who returned and was infected. “
The CDC noted that the case was detected through the public health system.
The first case of coronavirus In the United States, it was registered at the end of January near Seattle: a man in his 30s who had returned from visiting the Chinese region of Wuhan, where the outbreak was generated in December.
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