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#China  #Coronavirus #Outbreak #Quarantine #Racism #Xenophobia Hong Kong (CNN) On a French newspaper's front page last weekend, big block letters announced "Yellow Alert" next to an image of a Chinese woman wearing a face mask. Another  headline in the same paper  read "New Yellow Peril?" above an article about the ongoing  Wuhan coronavirus outbreak. The headlines drew immediate outrage. Readers accused the paper of using ignorant and offensive language. "Yellow Peril" was an old racist ideology that targeted East Asians in Western countries. The phrase embodies the worst of anti-Asian fears and stereotypes, which have plagued immigrant communities since the first waves of Chinese immigration to the United States began in the 19th century. In the US, government propaganda and pop culture at the time spread wildly racist and inaccurate images of Chinese people as unclean, uncivilized, immoral, and a threat to society. To inv

#China, #Coronavirus #Outbreak #Quarantine #MarchAirReserveBase #OntarioCalifornia #OntarioInternationalAirport #RiversideCounty ONTARIO (CBSLA)  — A plane carrying more than 100 United States citizens being evacuated from Wuhan, China — the epicenter of the new coronavirus outbreak — is scheduled to arrive at March Air Reserve Base Wednesday morning, after being diverted from Ontario International Airport. On Tuesday afternoon, preparations in Ontario were well underway as the airport brought in showers, bathrooms and a truck full of drinking water to a hangar that was expected to house up to 240 quarantined U.S. citizens being evacuated from China. San Bernardino Supervisor Curt Hagman  posted a video on social media confirming that a chartered plane would be arriving in the United States this week, arriving in Alaska to refuel, before making its way to Ontario. “We’re prepared for this,” Hagman said in the video. “We’re not at risk whatsoever.” But in a Tuesday even

Commuters wearing protective masks walk through Hong Kong Station, operated by MTR Corp., in Hong Kong, China, on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020.Paul Yeung | Bloomberg | Getty Images                        #Coronavirus #Outbreak #China #Wuhan #SARS This is a live blog. Please check back for updates.  All times below are in Eastern time. by Berkeley Lovelace Jr.    @BERKELEYJR 9:00 am: GM extends manufacturing shutdown in China through Feb. 9 General Motors , the largest U.S. automaker in China, told employees there that it will keep its Chinese factories shut down through Feb. 9, a company spokesman said in an email to CNBC. China’s factories have been closed as part of a nationwide manufacturing break to celebrate the Lunar New Year, but were originally due to reopen this week. Chinese officials have extended the plant shutdown to Feb. 9 as the nation tries to contain the coronavirus outbreak. GM’s decision follows on Honda’s announcement late Tuesday t

#Coronavirus #CDC #SanDiego #Outbreak  The new coronavirus, first detected in China, is causing a global outbreak of respiratory illnesses. A possible case of  Coronavirus  is being investigated at a San Diego hospital, a County Health and Human Services Agency official confirmed Monday. The patient who may have contracted the respiratory disease recently traveled through Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the outbreak, on their way to San Diego, according to HHSA Public Health Officer Dr. Wilma Wooten. Cases in China have now surpassed 2,700, and at least 80 deaths have been reported as of Monday evening. Stateside, five have been hospitalized with confirmed cases of coronavirus: one in Washington, one in Illinois, one in Arizona, and two in Los Angeles and Orange counties,  NBC News reported . Dr. Wooten said there is a patient at a San Diego hospital who may have the virus, but officials won’t know for sure until test results return from the Centers for Disease Control

#Coronavirus #HongKong #Outbreak #Wuhan #Quarantine Hong Kong announced the shutdown of major rail passenger links and limits on flights coming from the mainland. China will stop issuing visas for individual travelers to the territory. The two Hong Kong protesters were dressed head to toe in black, their faces covered in masks. They smashed their Molotov cocktails into the lobby of a public housing estate, and flames and smoke began spewing out. This was no scene from the protest violence last year over Beijing’s dominance of Hong Kong’s affairs. This was on Sunday, and the firebombing was incited by anger over the coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China — and plans by the Hong Kong government to use the unoccupied housing block as a quarantine area. Angst and anger fueled by the coronavirus outbreak, which has killed more than 100 people on the mainland and has eight confirmed cases in Hong Kong, is compounding the bitterness from months of protests against Chief Ex

#Coronavirus #China #Wuhan #Outbreak #Quarantine WUHAN, China — A top Chinese health official warned on Sunday that the spread of the dangerous new coronavirus, already extraordinarily rapid, is accelerating further, deepening global fears about an illness that has sickened more than 2,700 people worldwide and killed at least 80 people in China. The grim diagnosis came amid concerns that China’s efforts to contain the spread of the disease, despite a lockdown of unprecedented scope affecting 56 million people, may not only have come too late but could even make the situation worse, including by exacerbating shortages of medical supplies. Adding to the growing global alarm, people who are carrying the virus but not showing symptoms may still be able to infect others, according to the Chinese official, Ma Xiaowei, the director of China’s National Health Commission. Such asymptomatic transmissions would make the disease much more difficult to control, as seemingly healthy peo