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Yeah, it turned out to be not quite a cruise they hoped for... horrible really. There might be more ships like that too. If they can't find a port that would accept them then the only solution is going to the country the ship belongs to (or rather sails under the flag of), I think they have to let them in as per law. That's quite a journey though, in this case from East Asia to the Netherlands with potentially sick people on board.

Latest update: 34598 confirmed cases (+3387 since yesterday) - 6101 of those in serious or critical condition (+1280). 27657 suspected cases (+1298). 723 deaths (+86). 2052 recoveries (+510). 345498 close contacts of the infected have been tracked (+31470); 189660 are under medical observation (+3615). The general trends are still the same - there has been a somewhat significant increase in patients in serious/critical condition and deaths and also a significant increase in recoveries. The total of international cases (including Hongkong, Taiwan and Macau) has risen to 332 (+12). New confirmed cases in Japan and Singapore (3 each), UAE and Hongkong (2 each), Germany and Malaysia (1 each).

Unforgivable.

Season 1 is out now! Will be watching this tonight

Another cruise ship (MS Westerdam/Holland America Line sailing under the Dutch flag) with 802 crew members and 1455 passengers on board is stuck in the middle of nowhere as its ports of call have been rejected by Japan, Philippines and Guam so far due to the fear of the further spread of the virus. The cruise ship was on a 14-day cruise of East Asia and had a stop at Hong Kong last week; it is said to carry at least one suspected case of coronavirus. Meanwhile, due to several new cases of without any links to previous cases or travel history to mainland China, Singapore raised its Disease Outbreak Response System Condition (DORSCON) level to Orange from Yellow. Under DORSCON Orange, the virus is severe and spreads easily from person to person. However, there is no widespread transmission in Singapore and the virus is being contained.

You're not normal

The ones in the daily updates are, for the most part. When I started posting the updates I was trying to find the graphs to post with the data too but that turned out to be problematic (different update times, overlapping data, etc) so after a while I just started updating my own spreadsheet and make the graphs there. Crap I was wondering why the graph was larger in size than the night before but didn't notice it despite examining it a few times ffs. Will correct it when I'm on the laptop. That's what you get for trying to be smart at 3am

Also an update on the nationalities of the infected on the cruise ship in Japan: - 28 Japanese - 11 American - 7 Australian - 7 Canadian - 3 Chinese - 1 each from: New Zealand, Taiwan, Philippines, Argentina, UK 61 in total from 273 tested passengers. The rest of 3500+ will remain in quarantine for 14 days.

Latest update: 31211 confirmed cases (+3151 since yesterday) - 4821 of those in serious or critical condition (+962). 26359 suspected cases (+1657). 637 deaths (+73). 1542 recoveries (+389). 314028 close contacts of the infected have been tracked (+31215); 186045 are under medical observation (-309). The trends haven't changed much since yesterday; there has been a somewhat significant increase in patients in serious/critical condition and also a quite significant increase in recoveries. The total of international cases (including Hongkong, Taiwan and Macau) has risen to 320 (+62). That's the biggest daily increase since the reporting started and it can once again be attributed mostly to the new cases in the cruise ship Diamond Princess quarantined off the coast of Yokohama - they just confirmed 41 new cases when I was making the graph and that makes it 61 total cases in the cruise ship and thus 86 total cases in Japan. New cases have been recorded in Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Hongkong, Malaysia and Vietnam in Asia while Europe reported new cases (1 case each) in Germany, Italy and the UK. Australia (1) and Canada (2) have also confirmed new cases earlier today.

Weirdly enough it's geoblocked on youtube but not on the Sportschau website https://www.sportschau.de/fussball/allgemein/video-karten-pfiffe-fette-baesse---schiedsrichter-deniz-aytekin--100.html Cheers for sharing; will watch it later. But I think it's incredible how Aytekin improved in recent years. Definitely my most favourite referee in the Bundesliga atm.

Agu comes on a free transfer in summer but I agree with the rest of it. Vogt is sadly on loan only with no option to buy; hope we can still arrange a permanent transfer in the summer (if we stay up) though but it doesn't seem likely. We'll be also spending money on Toprak and Bittencourt if we stay up so there won't probably be much money left for additional signings of Vogt's caliber. Don't know anything about Mykhaylychenko I'm afraid.

China GP likely to get canceled due to the outbreak. Could be rescheduled for later in the season.

Nice. Was rumoured for a while now and is finally made official. Good to see us managing to sign talented young players despite our struggles in the league; will be interesting to see if he can take the next step in his development.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51364382

Latest update: 28060 confirmed cases (+3697 since yesterday) - 3859 of those in serious or critical condition (+640). 24702 suspected cases (+1442). 564 deaths (+73). 1153 recoveries (+261). 282813 close contacts of the infected have been tracked (+30659); 186354 are under medical observation (+799). Pretty much the same trends as in the last few days. The total of international cases (including Hongkong, Taiwan and Macau) has risen to 258 (+30). The biggest contribution to the new total comes from Japan once again (12 new cases; 45 in total). There have been 10 new cases in the cruise ship Diamond Princess quarantined off the coast of Yokohama and there's also another one (World Dream) docked Hong Kong's Kai Tak Cruise Terminal with around 30 staff members reportedly suffering from the symptoms. That's more than 5300 people in total on the two ships so the numbers of confirmed cases might grow again in the next few day. Singapore, South Korea and Hongkong have also confirmed several new cases each. New case in the US (Wisconsin).

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.

Apparently only two labs in the whole sub-Saharan Africa are able to test for the virus; one in South Africa and one in Senegal. So even if there are infected cases there already we're unlikely to learn about them until later if a significant outbreak starts. The only African case I've heard about so far is a Cameroonian student in China. A few airlines in Africa suspended their China flights but overall there's only the usual symptom check going in the airports. Most African countries that are the most vulnerable and susceptible to a potential outbreak are not willing to severe their ties with China due to their economies relying heavily on the Chinese money.

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!

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):

^^Bunch of twats. This made me chuckle.

Latest update from China: 20471 confirmed cases (+3233 since yesterday) - 2788 of those in serious or critical condition (+492). 23214 suspected cases (+1656). 425 deaths (+64). 632 recoveries (+157). 221015 close contacts of the infected have been tracked; 12755 of those have been cleared; 171329 are under medical observation. Very few new confirmed cases (+6) outside of mainland China: there have been 2 in the US, 2 in Germany, 1 in India and 1 in Vietnam reported in the last 24 hours. The total outside of mainland China is currently reported to be at 189.

Apparently only healthy people will be allowed to board the flight. https://globalnews.ca/news/6499384/canada-evacuation-coronavirus-flight/