gaobest

A friend’s son goes to a USA college with a China campus. He was home for the December holidays and now has rolling 1-week delays for returning to China.

enviroian

FWIW the mask itself does not provide any protection from the virus. It can freely flow through the mask. The only protection it offers is that it prevents one from touching their mouth with their hands/fingers.

STS-134

I wouldn't say it's entirely useless. If you would have breathed in 100 individual virus particles but the mask traps 80 and reduces it to 20, maybe you still get sick, but your immune system responds with a lower viral load since everything starts off with fewer viruses to begin with. Sure, it's not 100% effective, but even a reduction in the number of particles you breathe in can be helpful.

GUWonder

Some airlines are suspending flights while others are spraying down cabins, removing in-flight magazines, stopping hot food service, going to disposable glasses/utensils in response to the Wuhan coronavirus concerns.

Annalisa12

Not work but in Australia the Government has advised parents not to send kids to school for 2 weeks if they have just returned from China.

Cards1234

The are now saying this - as per newspaper article
The Federal Government says unless a child has been in direct contact with someone who has the virus or is showing symptoms, they can go to school or a childcare centre.

GUWonder

Australian federal government said that?

Redhead

Our company has:
-- cancelled all non-essential travel to China
-- Any non-residents currently in China may leave immediately even if not yet scheduled to
-- Anyone returning from China MUST work from home for 14 days after return

gfunkdave

I for one am going to have my Coronavirus with some Lyme disease.

I'll show myself out.

invisible

So in the light of current ongoing developments, the standard response from multinational companies with offices in China is:
- Shut down all local offices and ask employees to work from home
- Evacuate non-local staff
- Defer all travel to China

Y29M

I work for a large law firm with offices in Hong Kong and Beijing, with satellite offices across mainland China.

Current advice is that all non essential business travel to and from China is prohibited. All employees who are currently in Hong Kong or China, whether for work or holiday, must work from home for a period of one week after returning to the UK.

PAX_fips

Customer (Cargo/Containervessels), paraphrased
- limit travel to CN to "business critical", use phone/skype/..
- if return from CN, self-quarantine at home for 14d
- offices in HKG and CN closed along the official line (e.g. 2nd or 9th of February), call for homeoffice


And in newspaper Hapag-Lloyd announced that crew landing CN ports are not allowed to disembark -
or get "visitors"/new crew aboard.

chrisl137

Virus particles aren't really going to be floating free in the air anyway. They're carried in water droplets from coughs and sneezes, and those are almost universally larger than 5 micron, with most much larger. A filter that stops 0.5 micron particles is going to be fine for that. When I was looking through some published reports, medical workers who wore N95 masks in environments where they were caring for people with related viruses contracted them at much lower rates. But if you don't have good bio lab hygiene in addition to the mask (washing hands, gloves, keeping hands away from your face) then you can transmit a virus from a surface to yourself despite the mask. And if you're in an environment that has a low probability of the virus even being present (i.e. most places outside of the coronavirus ward at the hospital) it's not going to make much difference. Preventing spread from the source by having sick people wear masks will have more effect than having healthy people wear masks everywhere.

Annalisa12

Am I stupid for wanting to go to Thailand?

invisible

When and where? Now and next couple of weeks - mostly fine.