Spreading rumors about the receiving stars like cases and while he was eventually released two days later, that was not before he was forced by police is behaviorn that meanwhile,egal and the nation of china was getting sicker and sicker. Visit as usual did not stop. It allowed the virus to spread first within the city of wuhan and then the rest of china and finally out to the rest of the world. At 2 58 a. M. On february 7, the city of wuhan, he died from the very virus he tried to one about, a virus which has 95,000 men,ost women and children across the globe, including right here morena date and has killed than 3200 people, including nine in washington. Viruse now know is the that they were warning about in the virus that took his life was. Ot stars, but it was similar it is the Novel Coronavirus now known as covid19. Spread it has and continues to have tremendous and farreaching impacts. Statece has slowed, government has been shaken and people are understandably. Also has also call
Morning. Join the discussion. Aviation industry afternoon. Good a doctor posted a snippet of an analysis that found sars coronavirus and extensive bacterial colonies in a patients airways, and he says this new illness led the hospital to quarantine some patients in the emergency department. So frightening, a member of the group chat replied, is sars coming again . Suffice to say that the Chinese Communist government, which like all authoritarian regimes is often more concerned about protecting its image than the life and safety of its citizens, was not pleased. And even as dedicated Public Health experts scrambled to warn each other to collect more information on what was happening, chinas Security Services were busy trying to stop them. In probably the starkest example, on january 1, the Wuhan Public Security bureau summoned eight doctors for posting and spreading rumors about wuhan hospitals receiving sarslike cases. While the doctor was eventually released two days later, that was n
This hearing is called to order. On december 30th, 2019, dr. Lee wang young, a 34yearold ophthalmologist at wuhan central hospital, took to a group chat he was in with some friends from medical school to discuss a sarslike illness that had recently been sickening people around the city. He posted a snip pet of a lab analysis that had found sars coronavirus, an extensive bacteria colonies in a patients airways and says this new illness had even led his hospital to quarantine some patients in the emergency department. So frightening, a member of the group chat replied, is sars coming again . Fice it to say the Chinese Communist government, which like all authoritarian regimes, is often more concerned about protecting its image than the life and safety of its citizens, was not pleased. And even as dedicated Public Health experts scrambled to warn each other, and collect more information on what was happening, chinas Security Services were busy trying to stop it. And probably the starkest
Overseas if we had a preclearance locations. We have global entry located overseas. We are working towards that together. The secretary is driven towards that goal and i think we are in the process of doing that. I would differ to my colleague from cbp to answer some of that as well. If you would please. Looking up at different arrival experience. Its getting rid of forms for them to fill out. Its motivating selfservice kiosk that not only gives them a better strength but helps us be more efficient and more secure in what we do. Saying things like global entry that frequent lowrisk travelers keeping a program like that. We are getting 60 to 70,000 applications a month for that program. Its been steady like that for the last yeartoyear and a ha half, tremendous uptick in that program. Usage can vary from five to 10 depending on the day the week but it tends to trend with business travel. Later in the week we see those percentages increase up to 10 of total arrivals. Automated passport c
To deploy automated passport control kiosks known as abc. These are like the exact change booths. The administrator portion of the arrivals process thereby reducing the overall interaction time with the cbp officer and allows the cbp officer to focus on the security aspects of that inspection process. In the past year 16 airports are launched apcs and several more planned to join by the end of year. All of these airports that have launched these kiosk we have seen average wait times decrease by 30 to 35 after the installation of kiosks. We have also automate the for 494 arriving at seaports of entry. We have the arrival information from electronic record taking into processes easier and faster for travelers in addition to using reducing hc cause. We are are looking for Paper Production formed to eliminate the process. We envision several ways to use the internet mobile device kiosk and seeing the options available like when checking in for flight. Effective secures should be a travel f