Thursday, January 30, 2020

Germany and the Coronavirus

As of Thursday evening, we are at 5 total identified individuals with the virus (all from the same area, and all work for the same company).  So that's one single added person over the past four days.

One added note.....there were testing procedures done with 110 contacted individuals from this company Thursday afternoon.  The results won't be known until Friday morning.....so there might be more folks added to the virus list at that point.

The Germans hustled out of Wuhan and having arrived in Frankfurt yesterday?  They are set for two weeks of quarantine....in the German military post of Germersheim (small town region in the Pflaz, about 10 minutes driving south of Speyer).  German army participating in monitoring and handling this.

The cost of this flight deal for each German?  Well....originally, the government wasn't saying much.  Now?  They are going to charge each of the ninety Germans flown out.....the cost of a normal ticket from Wuhan to Frankfurt.  The stay in the quarantine....free, apparently.

The government 'point-guy' for commentary?  Health Minister Spahn (CDU).  He's probably done thirty public appearances in the past ten days, and clearly knows the facts and explaining this in simple detail. 

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