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Latest News and Updates

  • International Center for Migration Health and Development: Notes on Community Quarantine. Read the report.

  • Forecast 2020 Excerpt: At our Forcast conference this year, we spoke to Yanzhong Huang, Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council of Foreign Relations about the coronavirus and its impacts. Read more.

  • The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO) has requested any information on sources for medical grade masks and digital thermometers. If you have any information on sourcing these items, please contact Jackson Wong.

  • US companies pledge millions in aid: Despite a bitter and protracted trade war with China, US-based multinational companies are pledging millions of dollars to support relief efforts during the coronavirus epidemic, with donations from surgical masks and gowns to food and research for a vaccine. via NBC

 

 

How to help fight coronavirus

USCBC member companies have already donated to a number of charitable organizations working in China, which will purchase needed medical equipment for use in hospitals in the Wuhan region. We urge companies to donate directly to charities they have experience with. A few suggestions: 

The embassy has also provided information about the specific medical supplies that are being requested by Wuhan. Needed are the following:

  • Medical protective masks
  • Medical surgical masks
  • Medical isolation suits (disposable)
  • Medical isolation masks

If you’d like to donate these items directly, please contact the embassy representative, Mr. Li Qing.

The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO) has requested any information on sources for medical grade masks and digital thermometers. If you have any information on sourcing these items, please contact Jackson Wong.

The embassy would like to know about your contributions in order to later recognize humanitarian assistance provided by American companies and citizens. Please let us know what you’ve done or are planning to do and we’ll provide this information to the embassy. American companies are often exemplary corporate citizens, especially in times of crisis, and we think there’s value in documenting the humanitarian work you do.

For more information, contact Senior Director of Communications Doug Barry.

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Articles

CMI: COVID-19: Updates on Response Efforts at the Central and Local Level
While the number of new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, could potentially be declining in China as of today, another wave of new infections in China or elsewhere is not out of the question.

The current novel coronavirus outbreak poses several challenges for companies in affected areas and their employees. Lessons learned during the 2003 SARS outbreak can inform some commercial best practices. Companies that have contingency plans for closures and quarantines will have a head start coordinating next steps.  Read more
 
The spread of the novel coronavirus originating from Wuhan, China has continued to accelerate during the Spring Festival holiday creating a public health emergency and causing operational challenges and uncertainty for companies operating in affected areas. The outbreak is expected to continue worsening in the near term, and companies should prepare for staffing and operational challenges, transportation delays, and supply chain disruptions and shortages.  Read more
 
At our Forcast conference this year, we spoke to Yanzhong Huang, Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council of Foreign Relations about the coronavirus and its impacts. Read more
 

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