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No antibacterial handwash left, no hand sanitisers left, hardly any dry foods left. A Pandemic hasn't even been officially declared yet.
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Coronavirus privacy: Are South Korea's alerts too revealing?
"A 43-year-old man, resident of Nowon district, tested positive for coronavirus," it says.
"He was at his work in Mapo district attending a sexual harassment class. He contracted the virus from the instructor of the class."
South Korea had the second-largest number of Mers cases after Saudi Arabia. At the time, the government was criticised for withholding information, such as where the patients had been.
After that, the laws were amended to empower investigators.
"We know that it is [in the] the territory of important personal data," Goh Jae-young, an official at the Korea Centers for Disease Control Prevention, told BBC Korean.
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Coronavirus: South Africa's President Ramaphosa warns of crisis
His warning came after the first case of the coronavirus was detected in South Africa.
The patient is a 38-year-old man who visited Italy with his wife.
This brings to 27 the number of coronavirus cases reported in Africa. Algeria is worst-affected, with 17 cases, 16 of them in the same family.
The South African couple, who have two children, were part of a group of 10 who returned from Italy on 1 March, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said.
The man and the doctor who first treated him were both in self-isolation in the eastern KwaZulu-Natal province, he added.
A tracer team had been sent to KwaZulu-Natal to identify people who might have been in contact with the man and the doctor, Dr Mkhize said.
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Coronavirus: Woman in 70s becomes first virus fatality in UK
A woman with underlying health conditions has become the first person in the UK to die after testing positive for coronavirus.
The Royal Berkshire NHS Trust said the patient, understood to be in her 70s, had been "in and out of hospital for non-coronavirus reasons".
She was admitted and tested positive for coronavirus on Wednesday.
It comes as the number of UK people diagnosed with the virus reached 116, a rise of more than 30 in 24 hours.
Meanwhile, the prime minister's official spokesman said it was "highly likely the virus is going to spread in a significant way".
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NJ Gets 2nd Positive COVID-19 Test, Samples Sent to CDC for Confirmation
UPDATE: Update March 5: New York Coronavirus Cases Double Overnight to 22
New Jersey now has its first two presumptive positive cases of the novel coronavirus, New Jersey Acting Governor Sheila Oliver said Thursday.
The first case is a 32-year-old man who tested positive for COVID-19, but the sample is being sent to the CDC for official confirmation, the local mayor said. He has been hospitalized since March 3; the chief physician at the hospital said Thursday that the man is "resting comfortably and doing well."
Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich said that while the man had an apartment there, he also lives in Manhattan and is a health care worker in New York City. Sokolich confirmed that the man had not been in Fort Lee in the previous two weeks.
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Coronavirus testing to begin on cruise ship passengers delayed off San Francisco coast
Thousands of people are stranded on a cruise ship off the coast of Northern California after more than a dozen people onboard began showing signs of the coronavirus.
Gov. Gavin Newsom made the call to keep the Grand Princess cruise ship out to sea while passengers are tested for the coronavirus.
Newsom said 21 people have begun to show symptoms, including 11 passengers and 10 crew members.
Test kits will be dropped off by helicopter to the ship on Thursday, according to Newsom.
The kits will then be tested at a Bay Area lab. Newsom said it takes about four hours to test one of the kits.
A passenger told KCRA 3 the ship’s captain said there are no confirmed cases of the coronavirus on the ship at this poin
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Potential false-positive rate among the 'asymptomatic infected individuals' in close contacts of COVID-19 patients
Objective: As the prevention and control of COVID-19continues to advance, the active nucleic acid test screening in the close contacts of the patients has been carrying out in many parts of China. However, the false-positive rate of positive results in the screening has not been reported up to now. But to clearify the false-positive rate during screening is important in COVID-19 control and prevention. Methods: Point values and reasonable ranges of the indicators which impact the false-positive rate of positive results were estimated based on the information available to us at present. The false-positive rate of positive results in the active screening was deduced, and univariate and multivariate-probabilistic sensitivity analyses were performed to understand the robustness of the findings. Results: When the infection rate of the close contacts and the sensitivity and specificity of reported results were taken as the point estimates, the positive predictive value of the active screening was only 19.67%, in contrast, the false-positive rate of positive results was 80.33%. The multivariate-probabilistic sensitivity analysis results supported the base-case findings, with a 75% probability for the false-positive rate of positive results over 47%. Conclusions: In the close contacts of COVID-19 patients, nearly half or even more of the 'asymptomatic infected individuals' reported in the active nucleic acid test screening might be false positives.
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