Member for his longtime friend ship and partnership in this issue. Also want to thank the members of the cdc and Senior State Department officials for taking the time to come up here. Obviously, this is a very timely subject. This is our second hearing. A couple weeks ago we had the first hearing in congress on coronavirus, and this will be my second hearing. I think about this issue based on my background as a physician, but more importantly, as the former chief medical officer for Sacramento County who is in charge of the Public Health Delivery System there. And as a faculty member, my last Home Institution was the university of california davis, school of medicine. The reason why i give that background is last night it became personal for me because its hitting close to home. The first Novel Coronavirus case potentially person to person, nontransmission is in Sacramento County as we speak. That patient is housed at uc davis. I have been in communication with my former colleagues tha
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2 she is in germany killing 9 people. Who knows what to do go i didnt know that qatar has the biggest population in the world im Stephanie Decker on the tars northwest coast walk of that story coming up. To france government is defending its handling of the coronavirus outbreak on the diamond princess cruise ship cruise ship yokohama vessels been in corinth seen since early this month and in that time the number of confirmed cases on board has continued to rise its now at more than 600 and they have been deaths 2 elderly passengers they died after being taken to hospital. Near truth you can think of as weve said before the governments measures to prevent the spread of infection on the cruise ship were appropriate the government has been holding briefings with the embassies of countries in japan and with the Foreign Press we will continue to explain our muses carefully to those in japan and outside through the embassies in china has now changed how it reports cases of the virus and that
Chinese Health Officials have just confirmed early 5000 new coronavirus cases and who pay province that is the at the center of the virus they announced 116 more deaths in the region on thursday the surge in numbers comes as doctors and who bay have been started a new approach to detect the virus adrian brown reports from hong kong. When who based party chief spoke to the media 2 weeks ago he must have known his days when number. Is the highest ranking political casualty so far. His dismissal is in response to mounting public anger over the chinese governments handling of the coronavirus outbreak and follows the sacking of 2 senior Health Officials on monday and while the purge looks set to continue analysts say it wont bring down those at the top of the party in the way the companys policy works is sacrifice a few small fry to keep the big fish swimming in the pond and this is worked i mean this is what happened in the last great time of the sars epidemic 17 years ago the dramatic jum