17/05/2020
- Part of Jilin city declared a “high-risk” area as further cases of Covid-19 reported in China’s northeast
- At the height of the outbreak, 48 Wuhan hospitals had been designated as centres to treat the disease, but the last cases have now been discharged
Wuhan University’s Renmin Hospital resumed normal operations on Saturday after being designated a Covid-19 centre at the height of the outbreak. Photo: Reuters
Wuhan’s hospitals returned to normal over the weekend after the last Covid-19 patients in the city where the disease first emerged were discharged.
However, more cases of the disease continued to emerge in northeast China, with three new cases, all from community infections, and one death recorded in Jilin province on Saturday.
As a result, the Fengman district in Jilin city has been elevated to “high-risk” status, joining the nearby city of Shulan on the highest alert level.
The Jinlin government advised the general public to increase their precautions, and protect the health of themselves and their families.
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“If you have a fever, cough and other acute respiratory symptoms, you should go to a local designated medical institution to get treatment immediately,” the statement said.
Shulan party chief Li Pengfei was removed from his post on Friday and the following day five more officials there and in Jilin city were also dismissed.
Meanwhile, Wuhan continued to show signs that life was returning to normal.
All hospitals in the city, the original epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, had resumed normal service on Saturday after treating thousands of Covid-19 patients, local media reported.
Doctors at Wuhan University’s Renmin Hospital – one of the 48 hospitals designated as a Covid-19 treatment centre – treated nearly 1,000 patients on the first day of normal service resuming, the Changjiang Daily reported on Sunday.
It was the last hospital in Wuhan to resume normal operations, after more than four months battling the outbreak.
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During that time, thousands of Wuhan residents were unable to get treatment for emergencies or chronic diseases, but the number of people who died as a result was not recorded.
Before reopening, the hospital underwent a sanitising process that took more than three days, in which all air conditioners, filters, and bedsheets were disinfected.
All patients entering the hospital were required to submit personal information, including their temperature and contact history, in a makeshift shelter set up in front of the hospital’s main entrance before being allowed in.
Source: SCMP
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03/06/2019
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India warned of severe heat in northern and central areas on Monday, following similar extreme weather on Sunday.
Of the 15 hottest places in the world in the past 24 hours, eight were in India with the others in neighbouring Pakistan, according to weather monitoring website El Dorado.
Churu, a city in the west of the northern state of Rajasthan, recorded the country’s highest temperature of 48.9 Celsius (120 Fahrenheit) on Monday, according to the Meteorological Department.
Churu has issued a heat wave advisory and government hospitals have prepared emergency wards with extra air conditioners, coolers and medicines, said Ramratan Sonkariya, additional district magistrate for Churu.
Water is also being poured on the roads of Churu, known as the gateway to the Thar desert, to keep the temperature down and prevent them from melting, Sonkariya added.
A farmer from Sikar district in Rajasthan died on Sunday due to heatstroke, state government officials said.
Media reported on Friday that 17 had died over the past three weeks due to a heatwave in the southern state of Telangana. A state official said it would confirm the number of deaths only after the causes had been ascertained.
The temperature in New Delhi touched 44.6C (112.3F) on Sunday. One food delivery app, Zomato, asked its customers to greet delivery staff with a glass of cold water.
Heat wave warnings were issued on Monday for some places in western Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh state.
The monsoon, which brings down the heat, is likely to begin on the southern coast on June 6, the weather office said last month.
The three-month, pre-monsoon season, which ended on May 31, was the second driest in the last 65 years, India’s only private forecaster, Skymet, said, with a national average of 99 mm of rain against the normal average of 131.5 mm for the season.
Source: Reuters
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