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<ul><li>The B2B e-commerce platform has raised $250 million in a series F round of funding led by <keyword id="526777" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="tiger-global" source="Orion">Tiger Global</keyword>, Alpha Wave Global and <keyword id="4786885" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="ward-ferry" source="Orion">Ward Ferry</keyword>.</li><li>The e-commerce platform is now valued at $2.6 billion after the latest funding round.</li><li>Overall, the company has raised over $650 million to date.</li></ul><keyword id="3119222" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Moglix" source="Orion">Moglix</keyword>, a Noida-based business to business (B2B) e-commerce platform, has raised $250 million in a new round of funding led by Tiger Global, Alpha Wave Global with Hong Kong-based Ward Ferry coming onboard as a new investor. The e-commerce platform is now valued at $2.6 billion after the latest funding round. The company also claims that undisclosed seed investors have seen a return of 80 times on their investment in this B2B commerce player. Notably, the company had raised its seed round in 2015-2016 from investment firm Accel, industrialist <keyword id="6360722" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="ratan-tata" source="Orion">Ratan Tata</keyword> and others. Overall, the company has raised over $650 million to date. It is also backed by various other marquee global investors such as Sequoia, Accel Partners, International Finance Corporation, Harvard Management Company, and others. Rahul Garg, founder and chief executive officer (CEO) said, “We will continue to invest in building technology and supply chain capabilities to enable growth of the manufacturing and infrastructure sector. Moglix will increasingly focus on growth driven by supply chain financing, acquisition of the right partners and global expansion.” In May 2021, the company also became the first B2B commerce unicorn in the manufacturing sector after raising $120 million. A unicorn, in startup parlance, is a private company that is valued at or over $1 billion. Moglix, founded by Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) Kanpur and Indian School of Business (ISB) graduate Rahul Garg in 2015, is an e-commerce platform, which provides solutions to more than 500,000 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and over 1000 large manufacturers across India and the UAE. It has a supply chain network of over 16,000 suppliers and over 40 warehouses. The company, which also recently crossed $100 million disbursal rate on its supply chain financing platform Credlix, works with manufacturing and infrastructure companies to transform their end-to-end supply chain, from procurement to distribution. SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/budget/news/budget-2022-indian-government-can-help-zomato-swiggy-uber-and-ola-can-increase-salary-of-delivery-partners-and-drivers/articleshow/89180404.cms">There’s a way government can prod Zomato, Swiggy, Uber and Ola to increase salaries of delivery partners and drivers</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/health/news/reports-of-covid-19-variant-neocov-are-spreading-heres-what-we-know-so-far/articleshow/89180852.cms">Reports of COVID-19 variant ‘NeoCov’ are spreading – Here’s what we know so far</a>

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Merchant commerce platform <keyword id="1552189" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Pine-Labs">Pine Labs</keyword> on Monday said it has completed a new round of financing from investors including Baron Capital Group, Duro Capital, <keyword id="4699572" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="marshall-wace">Marshall Wace</keyword>, Moore Strategic Ventures, and <keyword id="252562" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ward-Ferry-Management">Ward Ferry Management</keyword>. Existing investors Temasek, Lone Pine Capital, and Sunley House Capital also participated in this <keyword id="6357455" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Funding">funding</keyword> round, a statement said. "We raised USD 285 million. We want to thank Puri Kaaynath for supporting and backing us. Our teams, families, customers, and investors," Pine Labs CEO B Amrish Rau said in a LinkedIn post. This translates to about ₹2089 crore. In December last year, Pine Labs had announced raising funding from Lone Pine Capital, valuing it at over USD 2 billion (about ₹14,700 crore). In January 2020, <keyword id="6368201" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="mastercard">Mastercard</keyword> had invested in the company, placing the <keyword id="2461546" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="FinTech">fintech</keyword> firm in the <keyword id="3009432" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="unicorn-club">unicorn club</keyword> (companies with a valuation of USD 1 billion). Incorporated in Singapore, Pine Labs' key investors include Sequoia India, Actis Capital, Temasek, PayPal, and Mastercard. "In this significantly oversubscribed round, in addition to primary proceeds, Pine Labs enabled secondary transactions for its founder, employees, and early shareholders as it is already a well-financed company with a strong balance sheet and has been EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization) profitable for several years," a statement said. Pine Labs currently serves more than 1.5 lakh merchants across Asia and the Middle East. Its payment acceptance and merchant commerce solutions including enterprise automation systems such as inventory management and customer relationship management. Its stored value platform includes issuing, processing, and distributing digital gift cards for corporate customers around the world. Pine Labs had recently launched its popular Buy Now, Pay Later proposition in Malaysia and plans to take its integrated Pay Later installment solution to newer markets in Southeast Asia. Last month, Pine Labs had also announced the acquisition of Fave, a Southeast Asian consumer fintech platform. "This is an exciting phase in our journey as we enter newer markets. We excel in enterprise merchant payments and now want to scale new frontiers in the online space as well, at the same time continue to power the credit and commerce needs of our offline merchant partners," Rau said in a statement. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/apps/news/battlegrounds-mobile-india-pre-registrations-to-begin-on-may-18/articleshow/82702403.cms">PUBG Mobile: Battlegrounds Mobile India pre-registrations to begin on May 18 – rewards, maps and more</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/startups/news/ratan-tata-backed-moglix-is-the-13th-unicorn-from-india-this-year/articleshow/82702143.cms">Ratan Tata-backed Moglix is the 13th unicorn from India this year</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/cryptocurrency/news/elon-musk-hints-that-tesla-may-dump-its-billion-dollar-bitcoin-investment/articleshow/82699553.cms">Elon Musk hints that Tesla may dump its billion dollar Bitcoin investment — here’s why his tweets have so much power</a>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Dani and Evan Benton sold their farm and Airbnb in New Orleans and set out to find their new home.</li><li>The couple first house-sat in Mexico for a year before moving to Japan.</li></ul>In the space of just three years, Dani and Evan Benton have moved from their <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-start-urban-farm-and-profit-right-now-2021-3">urban farm</a> in New Orleans to living nomadically and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/i-quit-my-job-to-house-sit-live-rent-free-2023-3">house-sitting</a> in different parts of Mexico to finally settling in rural Japan.Originally from Dallas, Oregon, the couple moved to New Orleans in 2016 and were married in 2018.<div type="image" title="Dani Benton with a chicken " height="810" width="1080" msid="104313770" hostid="261" sizebytes="134928"></div>Evan, now 40, worked as a massage therapist while Dani, now 39, was a self-employed photographer. They also bought a property that they ran as an urban farm and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/airbnbust-airbnb-short-term-vacation-rentals-investors-real-estate-reckoning-2023-3">Airbnb</a> in the Lower Ninth Ward.<div type="image" title="Urban farm in New Orleans " height="1440" width="1440" msid="104313773" hostid="261" sizebytes="469754"></div><h2>The couple had $100,000 to set up a new life</h2>In 2021, financial pressures and itchy feet led the Bentons to sell their home and travel. Thanks to a combination of savings and selling their home, they started their adventure with a little over $100,000.Dani told Insider they considered countries where Evan knew the language and had reasonable immigration processes."We settled on Mexico or Japan for a variety of reasons: ideal climate, potential for our business, cost of living, housing prices, our desire to live more rurally but retain modern amenities," she added.<h2>They tried living in Mexico first</h2>"Mexico was obviously much closer. We could drive our car and the cost of living was low enough that we wouldn't be blowing through our savings very quickly while searching for our next home," Dani said.<div type="image" title="Dani and Evan Benton in Cholula Puebla, Mexico" height="1536" width="2048" msid="104313774" hostid="261" sizebytes="215792"></div>The couple drove over the border into Mexico on December 5, 2021.Dani said the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/top-10-places-live-work-abroad-expat-survey-2023-7">immigration procedures were straightforward</a> — they just needed to file paperwork to extend their temporary residency.<h2>What it cost to move to Mexico</h2>The Bentons said they spent a little about $1,260 to gain residency in Mexico and broke down their costs:<ul><li>US passport renewal for 10 years: $245</li><li>Temporary visas: $130</li><li>Temporary resident ID cards for one year: $405</li><li>Immigration lawyer's fees: $380</li><li>Copies of documents: $100</li></ul>And they spent about $985 to import their car:<ul><li>Car insurance for one year: $440</li><li>Temporary import permit: $380</li><li>Internation driver's licenses for one year: $40 ($20 each)</li><li>Dash-cam: $125 (recommended but not required)</li></ul><div type="image" title="Guanajuato, Mexico " height="1367" width="2048" msid="104313777" hostid="261" sizebytes="240858"></div><h2>House-sitting was a way to live rent-free in Mexico</h2>The couple became house-sitters in Mexico so they could live rent-free and travel around the country.Dani read about house-sitting online. She said it's common for people to hire house-sitters in Mexico when they travel. "Within a few months, we had back-to-back sits booked for the foreseeable future. We could've continued pretty much indefinitely," she said.<div type="image" title=" San Miguel de Allende Guanajuato" height="1367" width="2048" msid="104313780" hostid="261" sizebytes="220998"></div>The couple booked about a quarter of their sits through <a target="_blank" href="http://www.housesitmexico.com/">www.housesitmexico.com</a>; the remainder came through Facebook groups and recommendations from previous hosts."Our job was to babysit people's pets, collect their mail, and otherwise keep their household running while they were away," she said.Some house-sits were easy, while others were fairly time-consuming — in one case, they had to take care of 11 rescue dogs and cats.<div type="image" title="A couple walking dogs" height="2048" width="1536" msid="104313781" hostid="261" sizebytes="504220"></div>Dani said their temporary neighbors and the people they met in Mexico were welcoming and friendly.<h2>Japan was their final stop because of cheaper house prices</h2>After 14 months in Mexico, the couple concluded that Japan "would be a better fit for us.""The real kicker was property prices," she said. The couple wanted to find a home with arable land to restart their farm business. "While Mexico's cost of living is low, property prices are not ideal. And while Japan's cost of living is higher, rural property prices are incredibly low."<div type="image" title="A man stood outside an akiya in Omishima an island in the Ehime Prefecture." height="1350" width="1080" msid="104313784" hostid="261" sizebytes="229604"></div>Evan, who had studied Japanese in college and spent a year teaching English in Tokyo, was keen to return.They arrived in Japan on February 15, on 90-day tourist visas. After 90 days of scouting areas to settle down, they took a ferry to South Korea for a week and then returned on another 90-day tourist visa. They eventually purchased <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/japan-ghost-towns-population-vacancy-rates-akiya-banks-2021-6?_gl=1*6fmies*_ga*MTAyNjU3ODU4OC4xNjY2MTg0NDY4*_ga_E21CV80ZCZ*MTY5NjkyNjUyNi4xMzY3LjEuMTY5NjkyOTE4NC4xNS4wLjA.https://www.insider.com/japan-ghost-towns-population-vacancy-rates-akiya-banks-2021-6?_gl=1*6fmies*_ga*MTAyNjU3ODU4OC4xNjY2MTg0NDY4*_ga_E21CV80ZCZ*MTY5NjkyNjUyNi4xMzY3LjEuMTY5NjkyOTE4NC4xNS4wLjA.">an 'akiya'</a> on the small island of Omishima in the Ehime Prefecture. Akiyas are abandoned houses in rural Japan.<div type="image" title="Renovating an old Japanese house." height="961" width="1440" msid="104313786" hostid="261" sizebytes="74080"></div><div type="image" title="Renovating a Japanese house." height="1367" width="2048" msid="104313788" hostid="261" sizebytes="203276"></div>After buying a house, they completed the paperwork that allowed them to get startup business visas. The <a target="_blank" href="https://www.meti.go.jp/english/policy/economy/startup_nbp/startup_visa.html">startup business visa</a> was only recently introduced for certain parts of Japan. The applicants need to provide a plan for their proposed business and can live in Japan for up to a year to launch their idea. Dani and Evan presented their vision for a smallholding business with a number of bee hives producing honey, a guesthouse, and Dani's photographyIt cost the couple $4,450 to complete the paperwork to settle in Japan; setting up a company required the assistance of a lawyer and cost $3,600.The house cost $7,500 and the realtor's fees were an additional $1,500. They estimate the DIY renovations will cost up to $24,000.<h2>Old, abandoned homes in rural areas of Japan are cheap</h2>Over the past seven months, they've been living in and renovating the house. They aim to have it listed on Airbnb by November and are optimistic about bookings because the house is near the famous Shimanami Kaido, a cycling trail of suspension bridges in Japan.The couple already have their eye on another nearby abandoned building with surrounding land — listed for less than $19,000 — that they plan to turn into their own home.Dani and Evan studied beekeeping in Louisiana, so they've started a honey business. One of their 10 planned bee colonies is up and running. Their goal is to have as many as 50 colonies active in the next four years.<div type="image" title="A beehive in Japan" height="1367" width="2048" msid="104313792" hostid="261" sizebytes="449112"></div>"Each colony is approximately $150 plus $100 for initial hive boxes, so for our first 10 hives, that's $2,500," she said.<h2>The Japanese island is full of friendly grandmas and grandpas</h2>"It's a simplification, but Omishima is an island of friendly grandmas and grandpas who were seemingly ready to take us under their wings. No hesitation," Dani said."News spreads fast on a small island, so many people we meet have already heard about the foreign beekeepers moving in. We feel overwhelmingly welcome."For anyone planning to set up a business in Japan, the Bentons recommend hiring professionals for all the paperwork. The "investment is well worth it for sanity, ease, time, and accuracy," Dani said.<h2>What the couple misses about America</h2>Both Dani and Evan admit there are things they miss."I miss people from the US," Dani said. "We've been trying to maintain friendships and connections via video calls, and encourage them to come visit us."Evan said he hankers after craft beer, cheap beef, and proper tools.The couple see Japan as home "hopefully permanently."However, they were adamant they never want to appropriate the cultures of where they live. "I wouldn't dream of having any other perspective: We are foreigners here, appreciative, open, and curious," Dani concluded.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Yusuke Tsushima, 36, told investigators he set out to kill "happy looking women." </li><li>Tsushima was charged for attempted murder after <keyword id="6356345" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="stabbing">stabbing</keyword> a female college student multiple times on a railway train.</li><li>Nine other passengers - five women and four men - were hurt in the mass stabbing incident.</li></ul>A man accused of going on a stabbing rampage on a <keyword id="4741" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tokyo">Tokyo</keyword> train told investigators he wanted to kill "happy-looking women," per reports from the Japanese media. According to a report from the <a href="https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210808/p2g/00m/0na/058000c">Mainichi Shimbun</a>, Yusuke Tsushima, 36, was charged with attempted murder on Sunday. Tsushima is currently being accused by the Japanese authorities of going on a rampage and seriously injuring a 20-year-old female college student on a train on the Odakyu Electric Railway on Friday, August 6.The college student was stabbed multiple times on her chest and back. Nine others, including five women and four men, were injured, but no fatalities were reported, per the Mainichi Shimbun. <a href="https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210807/p2a/00m/0na/020000c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Video footage</a> of the attack posted by the Mainichi Shimbun showed panicked passengers crowding around and moving about the train cabin while a woman screams for help.The mass-stabbing incident took place at around 8.30 p.m. on a 10-car train bound for the Shinjuku shopping district, per <a href="https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2021/08/0f907d5a1ae8-10-passengers-stabbed-or-punched-on-tokyo-train-suspect-arrested.html">Kyodo News</a>. The <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="news">news</keyword> outlet noted there were around 400 passengers on the train, which plies a busy route through western Tokyo. Kyodo News also reported that Tsushima has admitted to his role in the assault, telling investigators in a recorded statement that he wanted to "kill happy-looking couples and women" after he was unlucky in love, mocked at social gatherings, and suffered repeated rejection on dating sites. He also told investigators that he chose to carry out the alleged attack on a train because there would be "no space to flee," per Kyodo News.According to <a href="https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14413231">Asahi News</a>, Tsushima also poured cooking oil onto the floor of the train cabin but did not manage to set it alight. The train then stopped just before the Soshigaya-Okura Station, where ambulances ferried injured passengers to the hospital.Tsushima managed to escape from the scene of the attack, per the <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/08/08/national/crime-legal/odakyu-stabbing/">Japan Times</a>, but was arrested when he showed up at a convenience store in the residential Suginami ward four hours later, in the early hours of Saturday morning.The news outlet reported that Tsushima told a store employee: "I am the suspect in the incident reported by news media. I am tired of fleeing."There have been several incidences of mass attacks on Tokyo's trains.In 2015, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33322794">a 71-year-old man doused himself in fuel and set himself on fire on a bullet train from Tokyo to Osaka</a>, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-train-idUKKCN0PA0C120150630">killing a female passenger and injuring 26 others</a>. And in <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44428076">June 2018</a>, a 22-year-old man involved in a deadly stabbing incident killed one passenger and injured two others on a late-night bullet train that was transporting around 800 passengers from Tokyo to Osaka.Attacks directed at women and girls have also occurred in Tokyo. <a href="https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2019/05/cd2e013a9973-urgent-11-including-elementary-school-children-stabbed-in-city-near-tokyo.html">Kyodo News</a> reported in May 2019 on a tragic incident where a 51-year-old man stabbed 16 schoolgirls and two adults who were waiting for a school bus.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Warning: This post contains video of acute COVID-19 cases which some people may find distressing to watch.</li><li>Footage from a hospital in Bergamo, Italy, shows medical workers struggling to deal with the city's <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-virus-everything-we-know-deadly-2019-ncov-wuhan-spread-2020-1?r=US&amp;IR=T">coronavirus</a> crisis.</li><li>Sky News broadcast images from a makeshift ICU ward in the Papa Giovanni XXIII hospital March 19.</li><li>The video shows dozens of patients with plastic ventilation covers over their heads.</li><li>Wards and corridors are packed, and doctors and nurses in protective gear are seen stretched to their limits.</li><li>Bergamo is Italy's worst-hit city, with 4,645 infections. Residents have been on a total lockdown since March 8.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>Stark footage from a hospital in Bergamo - Italy's worst-hit city - shows doctors and nurses desperately fighting to control <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-virus-everything-we-know-deadly-2019-ncov-wuhan-spread-2020-1?r=US&amp;IR=T">the coronavirus outbreak</a>.The video, broadcast Thursday by Sky News from the Papa Giovanni XXIII hospital, shows an emergency arrivals ward. It has been transformed into an intensive care unit (ICU) because the regular ICU is already full.4,645 people from Bergamo have so far tested positive for the virus as of Friday morning, more cases than any other city or town in Italy, <a href="https://www.corriere.it/salute/20_febbraio_25/coronavirus-mappa-contagio-italia-6ed25c54-57e3-11ea-a2d7-f1bec9902bd3.shtml">according to data published in the Corriere Della Sera newspaper.</a> The exact number of deaths in Bergamo is not yet known.Watch the Sky broadcast here:The footage shows wards with more patients than they can handle, and dozens of suffering patients. The staff are clearly overwhelmed.The hospital's head of emergency care, Dr Roberto Cosentini, told Sky News: "It's a very severe pneumonia, and so it's a massive strain for every health system, because we see every day 50 to 60 patients who come to our emergency department with pneumonia, and most of them are so severe they need very high volumes of oxygen," "And so we had to reorganize our emergency room and our hospital [to] three levels of intensive care."Most of the city's public services a<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-waiting-list-for-funerals-in-italy-coffins-pile-up-2020-3?r=US&amp;IR=T">re in crisis</a>.On Wednesday night, 15 <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-italy-army-transport-coffins-bergamo-morgue-crisis-video-2020-3?r=US&amp;IR=T">Italian military trucks were seen ferrying around 60 bodies from morgues</a> across the city to cremation sites in 12 other northern Italian towns, after Bergamo's mayor called for aid.Several morgues and Bergamo's sole crematorium, which can only cremate 25 people a day, are overwhelmed.Churches are banned from holding services, but have been <a href="https://www.ilmessaggero.it/italia/coronavirus_bergamo_bare_chiesa_video-5112930.html">used to store coffins</a>. The gymnasium at Ponte San Pietro Hospital was turned into a makeshift mortuary.Residents have been confined to their homes since March 8, when <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/italy-lockdown-lombardy-11-provinces-coronavirus-crisis-2020-3">the government quarantined 16 million people</a> in 14 provinces in northern Italy, including Lombardy, the province which contains Bergamo. The <a href="https://twitter.com/davcarretta?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1238791068071661568&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fcoronavirus-italy-army-transport-coffins-bergamo-morgue-crisis-video-2020-3">obituary pages of the L'Ecio Di Bergamo</a> newspaper used to number two or three, now they regularly stretch to 10.On Thursday, Stefano Fagiuoli, head of the hospital's department of medicine, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=164492101238144">turned to Facebook</a> to <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/emergenza-covid-cesvi-per-bergamo">ask people to donate to help the hospital on GoFundMe.</a>Amid the bad news, a 22-day-old baby admitted to the hospital who tested positive for the coronavirus has recovered and been allowed to go home, <a href="https://www.ilmessaggero.it/salute/prima_infanzia/coronavirus_bergamo_dimesso_neonato_positivo_ultime_notizie-5120859.html">according to Il Messagero.</a><ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-italy-quarantine-lockdown-video-2020-3?r=US&amp;IR=T">Italians share what they wish they'd done 10 days ago to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, from staying inside to listening to their mom's advice</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/italy-falling-apart-coronavirus-pandemic-doctors-tough-choices-2020-3?r=US&amp;IR=T">How Italy spiraled from a perfectly healthy country to near collapse in 24 days as the coronavirus took hold</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/medical-staff-frontlines-of-italy-coronavirus-outbreak-work-days-2020-3?r=US&amp;IR=T">Medical workers at the frontlines of the coronavirus outbreak in Italy are working days on end as the disease continues to grip the country</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-to-do-if-you-think-you-have-wuhan-coronavirus-2020-2?r=US&amp;IR=T">What to do if you think you might have the coronavirus: Call before going to a hospital. 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<ul class="summary-list"><li>The first coronavirus death in Hong Kong has prompted thousands of hospital employees to go on strike.</li><li>The man who died infected his 72-year-old mother, marking Hong Kong's first human-to-human transmission of the illness.</li><li>Health workers do not believe that a partial closure of Hong Kong's border with mainland China is enough to stop the spread of the deadly virus, which has affected more than 24,000 people worldwide.</li><li>Chief Executive Carrie Lam said that her government "[agrees] with them on the need to reduce the cross-border flow … but at this critical juncture, I could not agree with the use of extreme means."</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>The first coronavirus death in Hong Kong prompted thousands of hospital employees to walk off the job on Tuesday, the second day of a country-wide health worker strike.The strikers are lobbying for the full closure of the semi-autonomous territory's border with mainland China, where the <a href="http://en.nhc.gov.cn/2020-02/05/c_76219.htm">National Health Commission</a> has reported 24,300-plus cases of coronavirus and nearly 500 deaths.So far, Hong Kong has seen 17 cases - seven of them among mainland China residents - and the death of one man.The 39-year-old visited Wuhan the day before it was put on lockdown and effectively cut off from the rest of China, <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/hong-kong-sees-coronavirus-death-hospital-workers-strike-200204132236871.html">Al Jazeera</a> reported. The man then boarded a high-speed train from Changsha to Hong Kong.Local officials told Al Jazeera that the man, who was diabetic, declined rapidly overnight on Monday. An autopsy has been ordered so they can pinpoint what caused his death.The man's mother, 72, contracted the coronavirus from him and is hospitalized in stable condition. This case also marks Hong Kong's first human-to-human transmission of the deadly virus, the Post reported. Other family members have been quarantined.News of the man's death has shaken the close-knit community where he lived. Several relatives lived only three floors below his apartment, Al Jazeera found.<h2>'Putting politics above public health'</h2>On Monday night, authorities in Hong Kong blocked all but three border crossing points with mainland China and restricted ferry services from Macau. Hong Kong International Airport, the Shenzhen Bay joint checkpoint, and the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge are currently the only ways in and out of Hong Kong, according to the <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3048738/coronavirus-hong-kong-leader-carrie-lam-declares">South China Morning Post</a>.But the public is keen on a total closure.Seventy-eight percent of 20,000 people surveyed by the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute support a full border closure, while 75% said they were unhappy with how the government had handled the coronavirus outbreak and 61% offered their support to the striking public health workers, viewing it a way to put pressure on the government, according to poll results.At a media conference on Tuesday, Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced the suspension of high-speed rail and ferry services between Hong Kong and China, the <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/01/hong-kong-protests-coronavirus-outbreak/605662/">Atlantic</a> reported. The number of flights to mainland China has also been slashed in half and the government is no longer issuing personal travel permits to mainland residents who want to enter Hong Kong.Lam told reporters, however, that she "certainly would not agree with the allegation that we are not addressing this public health concern adequately. Certainly, I do not agree with the allegation that we are putting politics above public health," Al Jazeera said.The Post reported that Lam has also doubled down on the claim that many people from Hong Kong need to cross the border and that it would be unfair to entirely block access from the mainland."When it comes to infection control, when it comes to a virus, there is no boundary, so you cannot differentiate that people of a certain race, of a certain nationality ... are more prone to infection than other people, we have to treat them equally," she said.Sixty percent of the 11, 715 visitors who came to Hong Kong from mainland China on Sunday entered through the three border points that are currently open, according to <a href="https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1506394-20200203.htm">RTHK</a>, a local media group that cited data from Hong Kong's Immigration Department.<h2>Protecting Hong Kong from becoming 'another Wuhan'</h2>But Winnie Yu, chairperson of the Hospital Authority Employees' Alliance, a newly-minted labor union that represents an estimated 9,000 employees out of Hong Kong's Hospital Authority's 67,000 staff members, disagrees with Lam."There is still a chance to save Hong Kong from the destiny of turning into another Wuhan, being cut off from the world, patients turned away from fully occupied hospitals, and healthcare staff crumbling under the severe pressure," she said, according to medical journal <a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m454">BMJ.</a>Around 2,700 people missed work on Monday. The fact that almost 1,200 doctors and nurses were on strike forced cancer treatments and angioplasty surgeries to be postponed, the Post said. That number ballooned to over 7,000 on Tuesday, Al Jazeera reported. "The measure provided by the Hong Kong government won't work because it is not a complete shutdown of the border," Yu said at a media conference, <a href="https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1506873-20200205.htm">RTHK reported</a>. "The Wuhan pneumonia carrier may still be able to come into Hong Kong with these measures."On Tuesday, the Hospital Authority said that the strike had made a severe dent in the available emergency services, and asked people with mild illnesses to use private hospitals or clinics rather than public hospitals, according to the BMJ. Despite the knowledge that Hong Kong's medical care will be affected by the healthcare workers' strike and some hospitals might need to shut down entire wards, Yu said the group is receiving "tremendous" support from patients.<h2>'The use of extreme means'</h2>Ivan Law, the Alliance's vice chairman, said that he is worried by Lam's plan to quarantine everyone who comes to Hong Kong from mainland China - even local residents - from Saturday. He expressed fears that an influx of people ahead of the deadline could overwhelm medical staff and further spread the virus, RTHK said.Meanwhile, Lam made an attempt to assuage strikers' concerns, the Post reported."I completely understand that medical professionals have been on the forefront, I respect them, and we will do our utmost to supply them with protective gear," she said. "We agree with them on the need to reduce the cross-border flow … but at this critical juncture, I could not agree with the use of extreme means."Many feel Hong Kong hasn't fully been able to put its experience with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) behind it, which may be lending itself to the territory's reaction to the coronavirus.The SARS outbreak originated in China in November 2002, and by August 2003, had affected 8,422 people and killed 916, across 29 countries and three regions, according to a <a href="https://hub.hku.hk/bitstream/10722/88855/1/content.pdf">study</a> by the Earth Institute at Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."Because the world was kept in the dark about the seriousness of the outbreak in Guangdong, Hong Kong was caught unprepared when SARS first appeared in the territory via an elderly medical doctor from Guangzhou who had been treating 'atypical pneumonia' patients," the study said. All told, the disease killed 299 people in Hong Kong and triggered an economic slowdown.Read more:<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-virus-everything-we-know-deadly-2019-ncov-wuhan-spread-2020-1">The Wuhan coronavirus has killed nearly 500 people and infected more than 24,000. Here's everything we know about the outbreak.</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wuhan-coronavirus-first-death-outside-china-phillipines-2020-2">A man in the Philippines has become the first person to die of the Wuhan coronavirus outside of China</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wuhan-coronavirus-research-studies-published-2020-1">Scientists have published over 50 studies on Wuhan coronavirus in the last 3 weeks. They learned that 75,800 people in Wuhan could be infected.</a>

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