UK Government Advised To ‘Urgently' Build Up Contact Tracing Capacity

Analysis of data from more than 40,000 Chinese patients who had tested positive for the virus by February 11th found that, at the time, about 80% had mild symptoms, 14% had symptoms severe enough to warrant hospital care and oxygen, and 5% were critical, requiring intensive care that often included mechanical aids to breathing.

Nearly 30 Soldiers and Airmen from the Wisconsin National Guard mobilized to state active duty after the governor declared a public health emergency on March 12, and they were standing by to transport the residents home after they landed at the National Guard's Volk Field Combat Readiness Training Center in Camp Douglas, Wisconsin.

Caught in the eye of the coronavirus storm, the cruise industry has also suffered massive reputation damage during the pandemic, when Covid-19 outbreaks on board the Diamond Princess and the Grand Princess and news of multiple cruise ships stranded at sea with ill passengers made global headlines.

Update 1:39 p.m. EDT March 23: Dick Pound, a longtime, influential member of the International Olympic Committee told USA Today that the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games are going to be postponed. At a media briefing on Saturday at the Health Ministry's head office, Deyalsingh announced that 40 of the 68 tested positive for covid19 taking the number of confirmed cases to 49.

Update 4:10 p.m. EDT March 23: The stock market dropped Monday as the nearly $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package remained in limbo as lawmakers failed to pass the aid measure, The Wall Streer Journal reported. Italy was the first country in Europe to have a serious covid-19 outbreak and there have been at least 28,000 deaths due to coronavirus there.

The coronavirus pandemic is likely to last as long as two years , according to researchers at Vacation the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy in Minnesota. Update 8:28 a.m. EDT March 23: Officials in Bangladesh declared a 10-day general holiday that will begin Thursday and run through April 4, in an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the country, The Guardian reported.

What will be a mega problem is how to maintain social distancing during the cruise itself. OSLO, Norway — Norwegian health authorities say they are set to start performing random coronavirus tests, following the experiment Iceland has done. Quarantine differs from isolation in that quarantine is for people who are not sick but may have been, or want to prevent being, exposed to the COVID-19 virus.