Mahuset watches the outbreak in Wuhan but sees no current risk.
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Lazia, 5 February 2020 — The National Convention of 2019 has established a task force to monitor the spread of the novel coronavirus, and says it sees no identified risk to the Confederation at present.
The World Health Organization learned on 31 December 2019 of several cases of pneumonia of unknown origin in Wuhan, in China’s Hubei province; on 7 January Chinese authorities identified the cause as a previously unencountered member of the coronavirus family, designated 2019-nCoV. Common strains of coronavirus tend to produce only mild upper-respiratory illness, of the order of a cold, though two others — MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV — have been known to cause severe symptoms and death.
Symptoms of the new virus include cough, fever, a runny nose, a sore throat and difficulty breathing, and a small number of those infected have died. Like other strains it is thought to have originated in animals, many of the first patients having worked at or frequented a seafood wholesale market in Wuhan. At the time of writing 24,348 cases had been confirmed in China, with twelve in Germany, six in France, two in the United Kingdom and one in Belgium, all appearing to involve people who had recently travelled to Wuhan.
The National Convention is not recommending travel restrictions, but has updated its temporary travel-health notice for Wuhan, advising enhanced precautions for anyone travelling there. It said it would monitor the situation closely and keep the Mahusetan population informed as more was learned, or as official recommendations changed.
Edited for the relaunch of the Courant van Lazia.
