In just about 2 months, the Wuhan 2019-nCoV is now in 28 countries.在线咨询
The Chinese government quarantined the entire province of Hubei, but the number of confirmed cases in foreign countries continues to appear.
2002SARS-CoV outbreak is still fresh in many people’s mind. In order to avoid the history from repeating itself, many countries acted quickly against this outbreak.
Let’s look at several countries’ tactics against 2019-nCoV.
Indonesia
1.The picture shown above is an Indonesia flight that just arrived from Wuhan, China to Batam, Indonesia.As you can see, airport employees have taken the precaution to wear yellow hazmat suits.The passengers are sprayed with alcohol mists to disinfect as they exited the plane.These passengers were transported to Natuna Island’s military base until 14 days of incubation period is over.2.Due to the short-noticed travel ban from Indonesia, about 5000 Chinese tourists are stuck in Bali without direct flights back to China. In response to the circumstance, Indonesia’s government agreed to extend the travel visa until the travel ban is removed. Free Bali vacation? Although tourists have the option to travel through a third country that still allows entrance.
Thailand
1.This coronavirus is not a joke to Thailand. Besides of China, Thailand currently has the most confirmed cases in Southeast Asia. With such a sudden outbreak, researchers around the world have not yet found a cure for this disease.
In an effort to find a cure, Thailand employed a cocktail of antiviral drugs and appeared effective on a severely infected 2019-nCoV patient. The antiviral drugs cocktail contains the HIV medicines lopinavir and ritonavir, along with the anti-flu medicine oseltamivir. The success on the Thai patient is hope, but does not imply anything beyond the surface. HIV, flu, and coronavirus are all viruses and must share certain similarity for this antiviral concoction to work on this patient. The Thai doctors are administrating further research into the benefit of these antiviral medications. Although still in the early stages of research, this could be the first glance into the cure.