Coronavirus : New travel restrictions for Iran announced
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rnz.co.nzPosted Feb 28, 2020, 2:34 AM UTC
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rnz.co.nzWhy only Iran and not Italy or South Korea? It's out of hand in both of those places too.
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Concerns over transparency from governments and their response. Italy and SK govt probably do a good job of collecting and sharing information about what they've encountered because there's no real reason not to. Italy definitely has.
Iran and China probably do a terrible job of it due to anything between poor systems and a bizarre need to talk complete shit about how bad the issue internally.
CCP, especially, shoots themselves in the foot. They have no one to blame for other nations not trusting people leaving their country than themselves. Its completely unnecessary and self-defeating.
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But there are still a shitload of people walking around in SK and Italy infected. They could very easily come here. It doesn't matter how well their governments communicate.
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Restrictions on Italy mean restrictions on all of Europe because they have open borders. Might as well just close the NZ border at that point.
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The bans aren't technically on travel to and from the places, the bans are on people who've been to those places.
It's very easy to say that anyone who's been in the affected area of Italy is not allowed into the country.
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All countries except Singapore and a few more (UK, HK, are doing well) are ignoring the severe risk this Coronavirus is bringing to the table. This is a serious problem we should solve AS FAST as possible.
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Takes time to develop a vaccine, although this one seems to be rocketing ahead because it's being done in public interest, instead of for profit
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With solving I included reducing infections.
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I mean, we have 1 infection. So how do you propose we "solve" that as fast as possible? They can't just suck the virus out of their body.
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So you are saying they restricted travel from Iran, then you look to see Italy has roughly 650 reported cases and South Korea with 2000 - ish, which is a lot more than Iran. What is the point of closing borders after it arrives here?
You come into contact with a lot of people when traveling, not just that, you have a chance to transfer it with anyone you go near from the point you got the virus and end up in quarantine. It's just as stupid as removing people from a quarantine
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Shutting the gate after the horse has bolted much?
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OMG. I guess this is going to be racist as well.
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We should just ban the EU too since white people have it now as well
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Why would it be?
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Cause thats what some Chinese were claiming a while back. Given, some cunts in NZ have been racist, but the travel ban for Iran and China aren't fucken racist... Christ its about preventing the spread of it in NZ.
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I wouldn't get too hung up on what 'some chinese'think tbh
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Because the spinoff
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Didn't know people care so much what they think tbh
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Because apparently the ban on China is racist. So the spastics coming being vocal about that should also be vocal about this
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Surely that racist or sexist or rapist or some ist or iscm of some strain?
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Tldr - Same restrictions on Iran as China, and no exemption to be given to Chinese Students
Iran added due to concerns about information sharing and ability of healthcare system.
5 tests currently underway. 1 of those is for someone who meets criteria. Results expected today
Public awareness campaign beginning today around personal hygeine and steps to take. Radio ads and social media
Glad to see David Clark & the government are not allowing economic pressure to override health concerns. But why only Iran and not Italy or South Korea?
South Korea are throwing everything at this to contain it. Their ability to diagnose and treat/support recovery are so much greater than Iran's. This is not just about numbers (which can be incorrect) but also potential.
South Korea had a 33% spike in cases yesterday, it's clearly out of control there.
They're looking for it, many other countries aren't.
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Dude, the bug is coming, so give up the idea that we are going to ride this thing out in isolation. The difference is between the odd case getting past the SK system and into NZ, and a whole shitload of infected folk coming from a less capable country like Iran.
The country to throw everything to contain the virus does not mean other country just sit around and doing nothing. China is doing everything to control the virus and got banned anyway. South Korea has more than 2k confirmed cases which is more than any other regions in China other than HuBei. That number is still rising rapidly every day. Even with full border temperature check is not enough as the incubation period is 14 days or even more. No ofference but I just think NZ does not have the balls to ban South Korean, Italy or Japan etc unless AU or the states are acting first.
Incubation period is on average 3 days, rare cases up to 21 days.
So there's that.
That's something, I guess. I wonder if we just wait until someone from those countries brings it here (confirmed case) and then they close the border? Seems odd
South Korea is doing a lot more and have better quality healthcare than Iran does, and so far it's more or less contained to a city in the south of the country where it was first documented.
Iran's doing virtually nothing about it.
Iran is actively lying and fudging numbers about it too.
Maybe my figures were wrong but nearly 1 in 7 people infected with coronavirus in Iran died (19 out of 135-ish). Meanwhile S.Korea had well over 1000 infections but only 3 deaths, so they must be doing something right.
Yes, South Korea has better quality healthcare.
The numbers for Iran will 100% be wrong.
Covid19 has mild symptoms for many people so lots tend not to report the infection. This is why it's important to listen to the experts about the lethality, because it's not straight forward to calculate.
Probably because they are currently testing someone who recently arrived from Iran and is highly likely to be infected.
I missed the first part of the presser. Ill go back to the start once it finishes
No italy because europe has open borders, so you would need to close to all travelers and traffic from europe.
I would have liked to say about time for the public awareness campaign on hygiene but it's not, it should have started at the end of January.
Good!
I haven't been so glad about a decision made by this government in a while. There's palpable fear amongst my friends that are studying toward medical degrees and I felt reluctant to go to university.