{"id":15143,"date":"2020-02-28T13:58:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T04:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/28\/coronavirus-live-updates-latest-news-china-wuhan-stock-markets-update"},"modified":"2020-02-28T19:35:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T10:35:05","slug":"coronavirus-latest-updates-first-case-detected-in-sub-saharan-africa-as-stock-market-dives-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15143","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: first case in Wales as two further cases in England take UK total to 19 \u2013 latest updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria, New Zealand and Lithuania also report first cases as WHO says epidemic could get \u2018out of control\u2019. Follow live news<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2020\/feb\/27\/coronavirus-could-trigger-damage-on-scale-of-2008-financial-crisis-covid-19\">Coronavirus fears trigger biggest one-day fall on US stock market<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2020\/feb\/27\/coronavirus-could-trigger-damage-on-scale-of-2008-financial-crisis-covid-19\">Mike Pence \u2018not up to task\u2019 of leading US coronavirus response, say experts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/27\/what-are-super-spreaders-and-how-are-they-transmitting-coronavirus\">What are super-spreaders and how are they transmitting coronavirus?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2020\/jan\/23\/tell-us-have-you-been-affected-by-the-coronavirus\">Share your experiences<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-02-28T10:01:33.909Z\">10.01am <span class=\"timezone\">GMT<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>The former chancellor and Evening Standard editor says its time for the government to go on a \u201cwar footing\u201d with the coronavirus \u2013<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The British Government now needs to go onto a \u2018war footing\u2019 with the coronavirus: daily NHS press briefings, regular COBRA meetings chaired by the PM, Ministers on all major media shows. The public is fearful, wants information and needs to know their leaders have got a grip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-02-28T09:52:20.235Z\">9.52am <span class=\"timezone\">GMT<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>So coronavirus has finally arrived in sub-saharan Africa, with an Italian man who arrived in Nigeria three days ago becoming the country\u2019s first case of the disease.<\/p>\n<p>The case is in Lagos, a massive overcrowded city, which will raise fears that the virus might already have spread in Nigeria, Africa\u2019s most populous country, and possibly further afield.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria is a major hub for air transport, commerce and culture. It has deep links with China, with continual and substantial traffic of people and goods. However this first confirmed case appears to have originated in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO\u2019s regional director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, has warned that the \u201cwindow of opportunity the continent has had to prepare for coronavirus disease is closing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt had the first case of Covid-19 in Africa, announced on 14 February. Algeria declared it had a case on Tuesday \u2013 another Italian adult who arrived in the country on 17 February.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, officials at the WHO warned that porous borders, a continuing flow of travellers and poorly resourced healthcare systems meant the risk of an outbreak across Africa was \u201cvery, very high\u201d and raised significant concerns about the ability of \u201cfragile health systems\u201d to cope with the epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>But recent weeks have been used to reinforce testing regimes, isolation facilities and for public messaging too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigeria has dramatically improved its ability to manage the outbreak of a major pandemic since the Ebola scare in West Africa in 2014. Many of the lessons from keeping the country free of Ebola have informed the steps taken since the news of the coronavirus epidemic first broke,\u201d wrote Folasade Ogunsola, professor of Clinical Microbiology, University of Lagos, <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2WUJWTr\">on The Conversation website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/28\/coronavirus-live-updates-latest-news-china-wuhan-stock-markets-update\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria, New Zealand and Lithuania also report first cases as WHO says epidemic could get \u2018out of control\u2019. Follow live newsCoronavirus fears trigger biggest one-day fall on US stock marketMike Pence \u2018not up to task\u2019 of leading US coronavirus response,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1069,599,914,88,222,600,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-dow-jones","category-infectious-diseases","category-japan","category-south-korea","category-stock-markets","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15168,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15143\/revisions\/15168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}