Risk Assessment Report – 14 February 2020
Risk Assessment Report – 14 February 2020
Rapid Risk Assessment
February 14, 2020
Risk Assessment Report – 14 February 2020
Time Period Covered February 14, 2020 - February 14, 2020
- WHO gave the disease the new name COVID-19. Under agreed guidelines between WHO, the World Organisation for Animal Health and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations find a name that did not refer to a geographical location, an animal, an individual or group of people, and which is also pronounceable and related to the disease.
- Last February 12, the WHO announced that the Coronavirus vaccine could be ready approximately 18 months
- WHO affirmed that the slowdown in the number of new infections should be taken cautiously as the situation can change in any direction. The WHO also stated that it is too early to predict the outbreaks' end
- Singapore and Malaysia will form a joint working group to prevent and control the coronavirus infection
- CDC announces that a diagnostic kit it developed does not work. This kit was made available to certified laboratories in the United States besides being shared with more than thirty countries. Due to a possible problem with one of the reagents some results could be made inconclusive (neither positive nor negative)
- A lockdown on Sơn Lôi Commune (Vĩnh Phúc Province, Vietnam) was implemented by the authorities after five investigated cases were infected by a cluster. This would last until 3 March. • The Japanese Health, Labour and Welfare Minister confirmed the country's first death in an individual with confirmed COVID-19 on February 13, 2020. This new case was an 80-year-old female, in Kanagawa prefecture near Tokyo, who developed symptoms on January 22 and was admitted to a local hospital on February 1. Although it was not clear if the virus had caused her death.
- Health Minister Katsunobu Kato said that it was only during the postmortem that doctors found that she tested positive for COVID-19.
- United Airlines announced on Wednesday that it would cancel all flights to and from China until April 24, a month later than originally planned, due to the rising cases of coronavirus in the country. The airline usually operates 12 flights a day from its hubs in the U.S. to several parts of China, including Beijing, Chengdu, Shanghai, and Hong Kong
Risk Assessment Report – 14 February 2020