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World News See other World News Articles Title: Reporter Claims Authorities 'Hiding' 300 Coronavirus Cases & 1 Death In Shanghai; Loud Noises, Helicopters Reported In Wuhan Summary: Wuhan residents report hearing loud noises followed by helicopters Japan reports first virus death President Xi says China will minimize impact from virus Chinese leadership scapegoats local officials Death toll and case count soared last night: There are more than 60k cases worldwide, and more than 1300 deaths EIA joins OPEC in warning about upcoming drop in oil use, the first in a decade. HHS Secretary says CDC will announce another confirmed COVID-19 case in US on Thursday 21 people in Spain released from quarantine US admin reportedly questioning China's reporting White House reportedly "doubts" China's coronavirus numbers CDC warns more infections possible after first US case confirmed in Texas (15th overall) 2 Russian women attempt escape from quarantine EU could close border if outbreak worsens Kudlow says US "disappointed" in China virus response Shanghai reports 300+ more cases * * * Update (1740ET): Could this be the source of the 'loud noise' we mentioned earlier? Russian Market ✔ @russian_market Reports on Power grid explosion in China. https://twitter.com/i/status/1228059451510448129 Update (1545ET): Residents of Wuhan reportedly heard loud noises at approximately 1pm local time on Thursday, which shook windows and floors of nearby residents, followed by what appears to be nearly a dozen helicopters. https://twitter.com/i/status/1227855083892658177 Update (1400ET): President Trump just reportedly said during a radio interview that he believes China is handling the outbreak "professionally." This after a slew of frustrated messages from his administration and officials including Larry Kudlow. * * * Update (1320ET): Following last night's admission that local officials in Wuhan were undercounting the number of cases, a reporter appears to have found evidence that more than 300 unreported cases are active in Shanghai, as well as 1 previously unreported death. #BREAKING: Shanghai has banned people and cars from entering the city starting at 00:00 on February 14 in order to put the #CoronavirusOutbreak under control. At least 300 cases of such infection have been confirmed in Shanghai. And at least one died from the disease in the city. pic.twitter.com/h8AKfTxAPK — Ezra Cheung (@ezracheungtoto) February 13, 2020 So China is tightening the lockdown in Shanghai to hide the truth about the outbreak? That's unconfirmed for now. * * * Update(1250ET): Not long after reports claimed the White House is widely skeptical of Chinese numbers, Trump's top economic advisor Larry Kudlow appeared on television to say the US is "disappointed" in how China has handled the virus response, and that the Trump administration wishes there was more clarity. Specifically, the US was most hurt by China's refusal to accept an American team of experts from the CDC, who offered to help. The US economy would be at 3% growth if not for the virus, he added. * * * Update (1230ET): As Beijing insists that it's safe for foreign nations to soon lift their travel restrictions on China, CNN reports that the European Union is considering closing its borders if the outbreak really escalates. They cite a Croatian health official, who said the plan is in the works, though he strongly suspects that it won't be necessary. The WHO has said that level of restriction isn't necessary, but that' hasn't stopped Russia from closing part of its border and other countries restricting travel by Chinese. * * * Update (1215ET): For the second day in a row, the CDC has warned that more confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the US are inevitable, especially as the testing of ~800 evacuees from Wuhan continues. After confirming the US's 15th case at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, officials warned that "there may be additional cases" identified during this period. The 15th patient was a "solo traveler" from China who has been quarantined "since arriving at Lackland Air Force Base from Wuhan. They remain in isolation at a local hospital. Officials assured the public that there's no risk to the local community, according to CNN. "We are right in the middle of that incubation period so it is not surprising" that the individual developed symptoms, McQuiston said. "For the most part the people in quarantine are not doing much associating with each other," McQuiston said. Across the ocean in Russia, two women being held under quarantine over fears they might have contracted the virus managed to escape, citing the appallingly poor conditions of their medical detention, according to the NY Post. Both of the women were hospitalized with flu-like symptoms after returning the Hainan region in southern China that is popular with Russian tourists because of its tropical environment. In honor of US stocks turning green, we'd like to share this memorable clip of hazmat-suit-wearing person spraying an office down with disinfectant as China continues to slow lurch back to work. Wars on the Brink 🅙 @WarsontheBrink VIDEO: #China “It’s just a flu, Don’t worry everything is Fine!” Shocking video from China shows Disinfectants being sprayed inside offices in China. If you will not die due to #Coronavirus. You will definitely die due to Lung Cancer. #Coronaoutbreak https://twitter.com/i/status/1228001366771142656 Remember, it's just like the flu - except much, much worse. If it was really so mild, would authorities be treating anybody even suspected of having the virus like this? 曾錚 Jennifer Zeng @jenniferatntd Once upon a time, somebody goes out shopping, and then... At Tianmen in #Hubei, One of the many scenes in #China during #CoronavirusOutbreak. 湖北天门：从前，有个人，出门买个菜，就回不了家了。 #COVID2019 #Coronavirus #coronaviruschina #武汉肺炎 #武漢肺炎 #新冠肺炎 #新冠病毒 But as the lockdown begins to lift in Beijing, here's how people are reacting to...well...being around other people. Eunice Yoon ✔ @onlyyoontv Disinfection stations. Security guards in hazmat suits. Beijing today in its battle to beat the #coronavirus. #China @CNBC https://twitter.com/i/status/1228008434458431489 Update (1150ET): Citing a senior White House official, CNBC reports that the White House doesn't have "high confidence" in the coronavirus numbers coming out of China. Eamon Javers ✔ @EamonJavers On the coronavirus, a senior administration official tells me the US does “not have high confidence in the information coming out of China.” This official says “China continues to rebuff American offers of assistance.” The U.S. does "not have high confidence in the information coming out of China" regarding the count of coronavirus cases, a senior administration official told CNBC. The official also noted that China "continues to rebuff American offers of assistance." The current thinking is there must be a reason why they won't allow the CDC to send over personnel to help with the virus response. Meanwhile, Jennifer Zeng tweeted out video of migrant workers being forced to sleep outside because of the draconian lockdown. 曾錚 Jennifer Zeng @jenniferatntd At Kunshan in #Jiangsu province. Migrant workers have no where to go after they returned. Residential communities don't accept outsiders, or can they rent house from anywhere. 江苏昆山，小区不让进，房子不让租。外来务工者流落街头。 #COVID2019 #Coronavirus #武汉肺炎 https://twitter.com/i/status/1227995651801264128 How much longer until President Trump demands evidence that the virus wasn't bioengineered? * * * Update (1015ET): Following last night's debacle over China reporting, Fox News' Edward Lawrence reports that administration sources say they believe China is under reporting the number of coronavirus cases by at least 100,000 in China. We suspect Chinese authorities will do their best to keep any "help" from the west at arm's length for fear of discovering the truth behind this deadly outbreak. Jennifer Zeng meanwhile tweeted a video of migrant workers in Jiangsu province being reduced to sleeping in the streets or woods thanks to the lockdown. * * * Update (0950ET): Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Thursday morning that the CDC is preparing to announce another confirmed coronavirus case in the US later in the day. That would be the 15th case in the US. The announcement hit US stocks just minutes after the open. In Europe, CNN reports that 21 Spaniards who returned from Wuhan on an evacuation flight have been released from Gomez Ullah Hospital in Madrid. The Spanish Health Ministry said the individuals had finished their quarantine stretches. * * * Update (0915ET): Even China's state-controlled press is beginning to sound alarmist as it becomes increasingly clear that the epidemic is anything but 'contained'. Reuters adds that Huanggang, another city in Hubei, that it will tighten epidemic controls by "sealing residential complexes and only allowing essential vehicles on roads." Patients quarantined in China's hospital jails are clearly hoping that their patriotic socialist principles of valuing the common good over individual liberty will see China through. Reuters adds that Huanggang, another city in Hubei, that it will tighten epidemic controls by "sealing residential complexes and only allowing essential vehicles on roads." Patients quarantined in China's hospital jails are clearly hoping that their patriotic socialist principles of valuing the common good over individual liberty will see China through. Update (0750ET): News out of China is presenting yet another lesson in contrasts. In his latest remarks, President Xi said his government is striving to hit China's development targets, and that the government will "definitely be able to minimize impact from the virus," according to Chinese state media that has been relayed to English-language newswires. He also pledged to maintain the development momentum of China's economy. Meanwhile, over in Macau, the government of the beleaguered casino paradise is planning to hand out vouchers to residents allowing to buy food to try and help boost local consumption once the outbreak starts to subside, Bloomberg reports. They can only be used at local restaurants and businesses over the next 3 months.The government is also planning to reduce some taxes and fees to help people recover (a rare example of fiscal stimulus directed at main street). Here's a video report published on NHK's site (please excuse the excess text): Notably, the woman's death had nothing to do with the 'Diamond Princess' - the cruise ship quarantined in Yokohama. * * * Update (0650ET): After last night's 'undercounting' bombshell on the mainland, investors really needed to see some reassuring headlines about the coronavirus outbreak to push equity markets back into the green. This is definitely not that. Japan has confirmed its first coronavirus death, the third confirmed virus death outside mainland China, according to domestic broadcaster NHK. The other deaths occurred in the Philippines and Hong Kong. The woman who died was in her 80s, and living in Kanagawa Prefecture, just outside Tokyo. * * * Last night, we wrote the following in conclusion to our report on the dire numbers coming out of Hubei. Essentially, we predicted that President Xi was cranking up the Party's scapegoating machine and getting ready to blame the undercounting of coronavirus cases and deaths on local officials. Who could have seen that coming? The stock market wanted so badly to believe the Chinese data... bonds and commodities knew better. But of course, smart traders who were paying attention yesterday might have been able to deduce that something was up. Beijing dismissed some of the top health officials in Wuhan and Hubei earlier this week, and last week it administered administrative punishments to hundreds of lower-level bureaucrats. They have already been set up to take the fall for President Xi and his inner circle. Let the scapegoating begin. Earlier in the week, Chinese media and the South China Morning Post, a newspaper in Hong Kong, reported that the Communist Party was preparing to punish the two top party officials in Hubei over their botched response to the Covid-19 outbreak. Of course, local officials have repeatedly claimed that their hands were tied by the national party, as President Xi and his inner circle were paranoid about the news getting out and jeopardizing China's ambitious growth targets. But unfortunately for the party leadership, the outbreak didn't simply go away. Instead, it has evolved into a global plague and caused the deaths of nearly 1,500 people in just a few weeks, putting the SARS outbreak, which terrorized China and the international community in 2002 and 2003, to shame. But that doesn't matter. Because on Thursday morning, the Communist Party officially fired the top party officials in the province over his handling of the epidemic. Party Secretary of Hubei Province Jiang Chaoliang is being relieved of his position, to be replaced by Xi loyalist and current Shanghai mayor Ying Yong, according to the New York Times. Ma Guoqiang, the top party official in Wuhan whose name is probably familiar to those who have been closely following the situation in the city, has also been fired. He will be replaced by Wang Zhonglin, currently the party secretary of Jinan, a city in China's east. Xi couldn't have set this is up more perfectly: The public has been clamboring for local officials to pay for botching their handling of the outbreak. Several stirred up anger by appearing in public without masks, or with their masks worn incorrectly. But by far their largest transgression - at least in the eyes of China's tightly controlled public - was the decision to punish Dr. Li Wenliang, the opthamologist who tried to warn the city about the virus, but was punished for his efforts, and later died fighting the virus. Dr. Li has become a martyr across China, and the Communist Party needed to find a way to distance itself from his death, or risk more widespread "instability." They've succeeded. Yesterday, we reported that the number of people confirmed to have the coronavirus in Hubei, which is at the center ofthe outbreak, soared by 14,840 on Wednesday thanks to a change in China's testing and classification standards after turning away thousands of deathly ill patients in Wuhan. That brought the total in the province to 48,206, while the total worldwide Across China, the number of confirmed deaths is approaching 1,400, with still only a couple of deaths outside China. Poster Comment: https://twitter.com/i/status/1228001366771142656 This tweet video tells you all you need to know about Chinese peope Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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