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Update after five rounds as Lucas extends his lead over nudge from 1 point to 3, Eco moves into joint 2nd and Bluewolf's Ligue 1 victory edges him into the chasing pack of dark horses. 1. @Lucas - 21 points 2. @nudge / @Eco - 18 points 3. @Tommy - 15 points 4. @Bluewolf - 14 points 5. @Michael - 13 points 6. @Teso dos Bichos / @Storts - 11 points 7. @RandoEFC / @DeadLinesman / @Stan - 9 points 8. @Dan - 8 points 9. @JOSHBRFC - 7 points 10. @...Dan / @Rucksackfranzose / @Mel81x - 5 points 11. @SchalkeUK / @CaaC (John) / @Azeem - 4 points 12. @Viva la FCB - 3 points 13. @Batard - 2 points 14. @Pyfish - 1 point

Reminded me of this:

Absolutely! There's a good research paper in The Lancet published a few days ago; it's worth a read overall but they also analyse the risk of spread outside Wuhan based on both domestic and international transport links and are pretty much saying the same. Here's the link to the article if you're interested: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30260-9/fulltext . This is the list of the cities outside mainland China that had the greatest volume of incoming flights from Wuhan based in January and February last year: And here's the actual data from this year provided by SCMP: So it's definitely not surprising that Thailand, Singapore, Japan, South Korea and Hongkong now have the most confirmed cases outside mainland China and might be the most susceptible to localised outbreaks outside China. University of Southampton also published a nice set of data evaluating air travel destinations from the 18 high risk cities in mainland China over three months period before during and after the Lunar New Year mapping the cities under the highest perceived risk in all continents (https://www.worldpop.org/resources/docs/china/WorldPop-coronavirus-spread-risk-analysis-v1-25Jan.pdf). Regarding Mexico: there haven't been any confirmed cases so far as much as I'm aware. I didn't have enough time to map the cities affected so just did a quick map chart yesterday highlighting the countries with confirmed cases from my spreadsheet. Certainly not ideal as countries with a huge landmass make it look worse despite still having a few cases only (e.g. Canada; Russia). I'll try to make a new one mapping the cities instead when the new data from China is released tonight!

It is well written to be fair.

Found an interactive live-updating map by BNO that marks cities with confirmed cases. Here's the screen capture for the lazy: And here's the ink to the actual interactive map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1a04iBi41DznkMaQRnICO40ktROfnMfMx This is a brilliant resource.

If you feel that your identity is not based in nationalism then that’s fine...no one chooses their identity you just gravitate towards what feels like you. Hence why people identify as different genders rather than choose to be different genders

If you look at that map and use a bit of inference it seems like the spread of the virus has propagated faster through air travel than a country being the actual neighbor of China. Why do I say this? See that little color marker in the middle of the Arabian Penisula? The only way its getting there is through air-travel. I am also thinking that while the two countries in North America seem to look worse than they are because of the color markers (its a country marker not a city marker) that we're not going to see Africa get severely affected by this in the northern regions but more in the south. I think this also highlights another important point which is how air-travel works during festival season and maybe how WHO and other health organizations can use it to back-track and find out possibilities of outbreaks before they happen. Do we know if Mexico has seen any cases yet? https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/3/21120643/uber-coronavirus-mexico-accounts-suspension Seems like its possible but this is a tech website so I am not putting too much stock in what they say.

Latest update from China: 24363 confirmed cases (+3892 since yesterday) - 3219 of those in serious or critical condition (+431). 23260 suspected cases (+46). 491 deaths (+66). 892 recoveries (+260). 252154 close contacts of the infected have been tracked (+31139); 18457 of those have been cleared (+5702); 185555 are under medical observation (+14226). The average number of recoveries per day is increasing further with the average number of deaths per day staying pretty constant (about 4 times lower than the number of recoveries). The total of international cases (including Hongkong, Taiwan and Macau) has risen to 228 (+29) from 189 which is a significant increase compared to yesterday when only 6 new cases were reported within 24 hours; and the biggest increase to date. The biggest contribution to the new total comes from Japan (13 new cases; 10 of those have been just confirmed to be in a cruise ship moored off Yokohama near Tokyo with 3500+ passengers under quarantine and being tested (so there might be a further update tomorrow), Singapore and Thailand (6 new cases each). Visualised map of confirmed cases (click to enlarge for better view):

Summer prioritising... https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1224291025792966657 214 people are talking about this

and now for some comic relief... https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/british-man-claims-whisky-honey-cured-his-coronavirus-infection-1675272

Honestly, please continue with your updates Nudge. I am really appreciating them

Read that a baby was born with the virus in China. not good.