For the past week, have been reading on news of the Wuhan Coronavirus, (Latest known as Covid-19). There are more than 20 countries are reporting cases of the Wuhan Coronavirus ever since it was discovered to be spreading in Wuhan in early December. China also started their lockdown of the Wuhan province on 23rd January, days before Lunar New Year.

While writing the post and updating the links to check on the latest news. Singapore has announced 3 new cases and currently have 10 confirmed cases. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/wuhan-virus-singapore-new-confirmed-cases-10-total-12364556.

Updated as on 5th Feb, Singapore has 24 cases now.

As the confirmed cases is increasing, do take the update Counts of the 2019-nCoV in the following links.

1. Latest updates in English Version
   • https://thewuhanvirus.com/
2. Chinese Baidu Updates and News
   • https://voice.baidu.com/act/newpneumonia/newpneumonia
3. Chinese Sogou Updates and News (Similar to Baidu)
   • http://sa.sogou.com/new-weball/page/sgs/epidemic?spver=1
4. Johns Hopkins University (A mapping of the current cases in the world)
   • https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
5. Worldmeter
   • https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Unlike the SARS in 2002-2003, which was 17 years ago, not many have mobile phone and of course there is no WhatsApp, Telegram. The era of smart phone started only mainly when iphone came out in 2007.

Here are some of the channels mainly for people Singapore/Malaysia to discuss on the wuhan conavirus

1. Discussion on Wuhan Virus 2019 Novel Coronavirus in Singapore and Malaysia. https://t.me/sgVirus
2. A collation of Singapore News Articles on 2019-nCoV Wuhan Virus https://t.me/TheWuhanVirus

Self protective measures

Sales of Antiseptic Products/ Protective Masks as deadly coronavirus spreads. As of now, most local pharmacy like Guardian, NTUC Unity, Watsons have sold out their existing stocks of surgical face masks or N95. Instant hand sanitizer are also out of stock. Luckily I managed to get 2 boxes of alcohol swabs which is another good alternatives.

But the chances of getting these at retailer are getting slimmer and slimmer as news of the more confirmed cases are out. Accordingly to several researchers and the cases reported, it does not look like it will stop any time soon even though Wuhan has self lockdown on 23rd January 2020.

To avoid going to crowded place, you can go to Lazada to buy online. For example, Dettol which can be found at Lazada – Dettol.

Updated as on 5th Feb 2020. Singapore has release a interim list of products that is known to be effective against coronavirus.