Just in: Mozambican student with coronavirus-like symptoms quarantined in China – Notícias

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Just in: Mozambican student with coronavirus-like symptoms quarantined in China – Notícias

8:09 CAT | 30 Jan 2020

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A Mozambican student has been asked to remain in quarantine for 14 days after an airport check found that she had a fever, daily Mozambican newspaper ‘Notícias’ reports today.

According to information shared by the Embassy of Mozambique in China and cited by ‘Notícias’, the student, whose name is being withheld for privacy reasons, had been on vacation in Shanghai since the 17th of January and had planned to return to Wuhan on the 27th – which would not be possible anyway, because Wuhan has been put under quarantine and the entry and exit of persons not connected with emergency operations is prohibited.

The patient must remain under medical observation before undertaking any further travel, including to Mozambique.

The Mozambican Embassy has been calling on Mozambican students in China and on all Embassy staff to strictly observe prevention and control measures to avoid contamination, and, in the eventuality of any symptoms appearing, go to the nearest health unit for diagnosis and possible medical treatment.

The embassy also reports that it has received requests from Mozambican students in Beijing and Tianjin to return home, and likewise from parents and guardians.

In general, the Mozambican Embassy notes, the situation remains worrying, with more than 6,000 cases of contamination and 132 recorded deaths, with a concentration in Wuhan city, in Hubei province, the epicentre of the outbreak.

According to figures released yesterday, the number of infections with the new coronavirus (2019-nCov) confirmed has already exceeded the numbers of the SARS virus epidemic (also a coronavirus) which, between 2002 and 2003, infected 5,237 people in mainland China.

Speaking to Xinhua, the Chinese state news agency, Zhong Nanshan, who leads China’s virus control and prevention team of experts, stressed that it was not possible to accurately specify when the peak would occur, but said he believed there would be no “large scale increases” after a week or, at most, 10 days.

“It is very hard to say for sure when the outbreak will reach its peak, but I think it might reach its climax in about a week or 10 days, after which there will be no large-scale increase,” Zhong said in an interview with Xinhua News Agency on Tuesday.

“There are two keys to tackling the epidemic: early detection and early isolation. They are the most primitive, but nevertheless the most effective, methods,” he said.

The expert believes that it will be possible to contain a major outbreak in China, or a recurrence, as long as those two methods are used. “The Sars (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) outbreak lasted about six months, but I don’t believe the novel coronavirus outbreak would last that long,” said Zhong.

Source: Notícias