Monthly Archives: June 2020

As the last month of the first half of 2020 draws to a close and summer looms, new and old rumors abound, most of which are being spun in the wake of coVID-19.

Today, WeChat has compiled an official list of the top 10 most widely circulated rumours among friends in June, seven of which were related to covid-19.

How many have you seen in your circle of friends?
How many times have you been hit?

1. Spread of Covid of imported seafood

Typical rumor sample

A source said, “The imported seafood infected with novel Coronavirus and then spread to the crowd in the farmers’ market”.

The truth:

According to Li Fengqin, director of the microbiology laboratory of the National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, any food, including seafood, will not get infected with avirus, but there is the possibility of contamination from a novel Coronavirus.
The customs now tests every batch of imported food.

If you are not sure, you can cook the food thoroughly and thoroughly, and thoroughly heat it to kill all the microorganisms.
In addition, processing and storage of food should be raw and cooked separately to prevent cross contamination.

Novel coronavirus can live for 20 years

Typical rumor sample

Recently, a report entitled “Novel Coronavirus will live for 20 years at minus 20℃” was widely forwarded. It said, “Novel Coronavirus will live for 20 years at minus 20℃”.

The truth:

In fact, Prof. Li did not specifically refer to novel Coronavirus in terms of the viral life time, but to “common situation” and “known virus”. Some media misinterpreted the virus and thus caused misinterpretation.

3. Mount Wutai does not receive tourists from Beijing and Hebei

Typical rumor sample

On June 19, many netizens forwarded the message that “Due to the impact of the epidemic, Mount Wutai currently does not receive tourists from medium and high-risk areas (Beijing, Northeast, Hubei and Hebei)”. The message also published the office phone number of the company and signed the name of The Mount Wutai Visitor Center.

The truth:

According to the Tourist Service Center of Wutai Mountain scenic Area, there is no such thing as not receiving tourists from Beijing, northeast China, Hubei and Hebei.

4. Drinking white wine can fight cancer

Typical rumor sample

Online articles claiming that “baijiu is a cancer killer” have been forwarded by a large number of netizens every year.
Transmission has been rising again recently.

The truth:

As early as 1988, the World Health Organization’s Cancer Research Department concluded that alcohol is a carcinogen and a major cause of human cancer.

5. There are coVID-19 contaminants in foreign parcels

Typical rumor sample

“Do not accept express parcels from unknown sources, especially those abroad, which may be contaminated by patients with COVID-19,” and “such cases have occurred in China.”

The truth:

There have been no reports of coVID-19 infections from receiving deliveries.
Foreign parcels entering China are rigorously screened and heavily disinfected by customs.

6, AIDS blood drops into the food caused many people to become infected

Typical rumor sample

Recently, a so-called “emergency notice” went viral: “Someone has dropped the blood of an HIV infected person into food, and many people have become infected.”

The truth:

The situation in which rumors spread without any occurrence of rumors.
Experts have repeatedly made it clear that food does not transmit HIV.

In fact, since 2012, this kind of rumor has come out from time to time to “slander” a kind of food, such as chicken, barbecue, salad, cherry, watermelon and so on have been lying on the gun, and can make people enjoy a good meal.

7. Novel coronavirus is transmitted by mosquitoes

Typical rumor sample

Recently, there was a rumor on the Internet that “Novel Coronavirus is spreading through mosquitoes”.

The truth:

According to the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, no novel coronavirus infection has been found in humans worldwide.

8, hot water can be forced to go deep into the bone marrow of the cold

Typical rumor sample

After summer began, people often forwarded messages on Wechat moments saying, “Drinking hot water in the summer can force the cold air deep into the bone marrow, so as not to get too cold in winter.”

The truth:

It is an exaggeration to say that drinking hot water can drive out the chill that has been building up in the bone marrow for years.

9. Express delivery to Beijing is suspended

Typical rumor sample

Recently, a news that some express delivery companies have suspended shipments to Beijing due to the epidemic has circulated on the Internet.

The truth:

It has been verified that the postal service, SF Express and other logistics companies have never issued a similar notice. At present, express delivery flowing from Beijing can still be accepted as normal.
However, some parcels may be affected due to the upgrading of control measures in some regions in Beijing.

Tens of thousands of people in Beijing’s Xinfadi were transported to Tangshan in Hebei province for quarantine

Typical rumor sample

“Hundreds of buses are pulling tens of thousands of people from the Xinfadi market to Tangshan for quarantine.”

The truth:

According to the official weibo account, from June 14, nearly 10,000 operators, purchasers and workers in the Wholesale market in Xinfai will collect throat swabs and then be transported by bus to observation points in Fengtai, Changping, Fangshan, Tongzhou, Daxing and the Economic development Zone for observation.

Chinese researchers used techniques such as single particle force tracing to reveal the dynamic process and dynamic mechanism of a single Ebola virus invading cells in real time.
The relevant findings are of great significance for the in-depth understanding of the mechanism of Ebola virus infection, and also provide an important reference for the development of antiviral pathways.

Ebola is one of the most deadly pathogens to humans, causing severe hemorrhagic fever with a fatality rate of up to 90%.
Cui Zongqiang, a researcher from Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, collaborated with Shan Yoping, a professor from Changchun University of Technology, and Shi Xinghua, a researcher from the National Center for Nanoscience and Biotechnology, to conduct a study on a single Ebola virus invading cells.

The researchers first constructed and fluorescently labeled filamentous Ebola-like particles.
The filamentous Ebola-like particle has the same ability to invade as the wild Ebola-like virus, but it has no viral nucleic acid inside and cannot replicate.
Using techniques such as single-particle force tracer, dynamic simulation and single-particle fluorescence tracer, the researchers traced the dynamic process of a single Ebola-like particle entering cells and analyzed its dynamic mechanism.

This study revealed that the filamentous Ebola-like particles entered the cells in horizontal or vertical modes, as well as the corresponding fine mechanisms such as space-time, energy, interaction mode with the receptor and invasion pathway, and visually confirmed that the filamentous Ebola-like particles entered the cells in the giant pinocytosis pathway.

At present, the related research results have been published online in the international academic journal “American Chemical Society nano”.

China biological covid inactivated international clinical phase iii launching ceremony held in the form of video conference, the three sides: Beijing, China, wuhan, the united Arab emirates, ABU dhabi, in the meeting, China the united Arab emirates (uae) signed a cooperation agreement, the united Arab emirates (uae) health minister presented China with a clinical trial license file, marking the world’s first covid inactivated international launched the third phase of clinical trial.

Just a few days ago, WHO chief scientist Sumiya Swaminathan told reporters that nearly 200 coVID-19 vaccines were under development, 10 were in the final stages of phase II testing and four were on the way to phase III clinical trials.
Swaminathan explained that the third stage is the last stage before mass production.

It will take a long time for vaccines to be developed, tested and mass-produced, swaminathan said, but because of the severity of the global epidemic, research institutions will have to speed up the process, and because of scientists’ efforts, one or two vaccines could be ready by the end of the year.
If the vaccine is successfully developed and proves effective, mass production could begin, with nearly 2 billion doses expected by 2021.
The rapid production of the vaccine is not guaranteed to be safe, but because the vaccine will be tested on thousands of patients during development to ensure it has no side effects in humans, trials of this scale are sufficient, but “risk free” is unlikely.

Zhong said at the end of May that China’s vaccine research progress is in the first tier in the world, and we will not lag behind other countries.
In early June, zhong said in a live television, natural immune is 60-70% of the population is infected with a country, killing tens of millions of people, the price is too big, so the best way to solve the problem still have to rely on a large-scale vaccination, the vaccine is the main way to solve the herd immunity, the covid vaccine can be used at the end of this fall or emergency at the earliest.

Famous NBA reporter Woj revealed that Jokic was diagnosed

On June 24, ACCORDING to the media in the United States, Nikolai Jokic, a Serbian basketball star and NBA Denver nuggets player, had tested positive for avirus and was undergoing treatment in isolation in Serbia.

On the same day, tennis star Djokovic, also from Serbia, was diagnosed with avirus from novel Coronavirus.
Both had recently attended a charity tennis match in Belgrade, The Serbian capital, and had been in close contact, without wearing masks.
However, it is not clear that there is a direct correlation between almost simultaneous diagnosis.
Novel Coronavirus infected with the virus that infected a number of participating tennis stars and sports stars in a charity tennis show held by Djokovic is reported to have caused a public apology by Djokovic after his diagnosis.

According to the NBA rematch plan, foreign players currently abroad must report back to their teams and be tested by Coronavirus on June 15.
Jokic has taken a leave of absence from the team to postpone his return to the United States.
According to the Alliance, Jokic must return from Serbia to the United States after two novel Coronavirus tests were negative 24 hours apart.
When he arrived in Denver, he had to be tested again for the virus.

In the regular season, Jokic averaged 20.2 points, 10.2 rebounds, 6.9 assists, 1.2 steals and 0.7 blocks in 32.3 minutes.
The Nuggets are 43-22, third in the Western Conference behind the Lakers and clippers.
Jokic lost 40 pounds during NBA suspension and appeared ready to play again, but was diagnosed with avirus that could affect the Nuggets’ encore plans.
In addition to Jokic, Nuggets coach Michael Malone previously revealed that he was infected with avirus from novel Coronavirus.

Just as pharmaceutical companies in the United States, Europe, China and other regions are racing to develop vaccines around the world, and the new vaccine is about to be mass produced, there is a shortage of small glass bottles for vaccines.
Schott, one of the world’s largest medical glass producers, recently said it had received orders for 1 billion vials this year, double its annual production capacity.
In order to mass produce the covid vaccine, Johnson & Johnson alone purchased 250 million vials; a global NGO even purchased its own glass production line to ensure vaccine reserves.
According to the CEO of Tarant, a drug development solution and supplier of drugs, biological agents and health care products, the global covid vaccine R & D company has entered vaccine R & D, making medical glass vials in short supply.
According to foreign media reports, the shortage of medical bottles is mainly due to the limited reserve of special materials for production. In general, the glass used to hold the vials contains certain chemicals that are resistant to extreme temperature changes and keep the vaccine stable. It takes days or weeks to process special glass into glass vials. The raw materials need to be melted first, then shaped into slender tubes, and finally the small tubes become small glass tubes.
In the process of blowing, the hottest part is easy to escape sodium borate. After cooling, boron will coagulate irregularly at the bottom and neck of the inner wall of the glass bottle. If the vaccine liquid is added, boron may dissolve into the liquid. The inner part of the glass bottle will also be corroded, and the metal will be dissolved, forming a corrosion layer on the glass surface.
If the tablet is injected into the human body, it may cause adverse reactions, so special personnel are required to check the tablet in the bottle.
(drawing pipe process, source: official account of all things)
As a result, glass vials take a long time to make, but when demand suddenly increases, there will be a short-term imbalance between supply and demand – just like masks and upstream melt blown cloths at the beginning of the year.
List of a shares
At present, the mainstream injection packaging material in the world is borosilicate glass, with the use ratio of more than 70%. But in China, it’s less than 10%. Since 2017, the State Food and drug administration has recommended the use of borosilicate glass as the injection packaging material. In 2019, the drug regulatory bureau issued another document to stipulate that the packaging materials used for domestic generic drugs shall not be lower than the packaging materials standards of European and American countries.
This year, Chinese pharmaceutical companies are competing to develop covid vaccines, which is expected to speed up the replacement of borosilicate glass bottles in China.
At present, there are more than 1500 companies engaged in pharmaceutical glass bottle packaging in China. However, there are not many companies with corresponding businesses in A-share market, mainly Shandong Pharmaceutical glass and Zhengchuan shares.
(picture source: enterprise inspection)
Shandong Pharmaceutical glass is the leading manufacturer of medical glass in China, mainly engaged in the research, development, production and sales of various pharmaceutical glass packaging products, including six series of molded bottles, brown bottles, ampoule bottles, control bottles, butyl rubber plugs, aluminum plastic caps, etc. The market share of the company’s molding bottles is more than 80%, and it is also one of the two domestic manufacturers with approval documents for neutral borosilicate molding bottle packaging materials.
Shandong Pharmaceutical glass has a capacity of about 200 million borosilicate moulded bottles, and a capacity of 687 million borosilicate controlled series bottles. According to last year’s annual report, the company’s model bottle series contributed 52% of its revenue. The proportion of export revenue is 31.5%.
(source: tonghuashun)
In the first quarter of this year, the company recorded revenue of 761 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.98%; net profit of 136 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 22.63%. The decline of the company’s revenue / net profit growth was mainly affected by the epidemic.
(source: tonghuashun Ifind)
But in terms of share price performance, the company has maintained stable growth since 2018. From 2018 to now, the company’s share price has increased by 341%. Despite the possible shortage of vaccine glass bottles, the company’s growth space and fundamentals are also favored by the market.
As of the latest, the market value of the company is 28.7 billion yuan, with a rolling P / E ratio of 59x.
(source: tonghuashun Ifind)
Zhengchuan Co., Ltd. is also mainly engaged in the research, development, production and sales of pharmaceutical packaging materials such as pharmaceutical glass control bottles. Its main products include borosilicate glass control bottles of different types and specifications, sodium calcium glass control bottles, etc.
In the first quarter of this year, the company achieved a total operating revenue of 145 million yuan, down 13.32% year-on-year; its net profit was 18.99 million yuan, down 18.67% year-on-year. In 2019, the company’s revenue and net profit also recorded a significant decline.
(source: tonghuashun Ifind)
In addition to the above two companies, Qibin group also announced the investment and construction of neutral borosilicate medical glass project at the end of last year. The project is planned to be constructed in stages, with a total investment of about 600 million yuan. The first phase of the project is planned to last 12 months and is under preparation.
There is a mask concept in front of the car. At present, the “scarce” medical glass bottle label in the A-share market is expected to take off if it meets the air outlet.
Warning of melt blown cloth
There is no doubt that the mask industry chain is the first industry benefiting from the “covid market”.
However, after the whole industry entered the Bureau, there was overcapacity in the mask industry chain.
Recently, the head of the manufacturer of Guangdong mask factory revealed that the price of 95 grade meltblown cloth has dropped to 20000-30000 yuan per ton at present, while the price per ton in peak period once reached 700000 yuan. At the peak, the unit price per ton of materials once reached 700000 yuan. The related production equipment also decreased by the same extent, and the downstream demand for masks continued to shrink.
At the same time, Evonik technology, a listed company, has stopped orders for interface masks. Mask production, once seen as a “money printing business”, has finally faded out of sight.
In the stock market, the “mask concept stock”, which must have skyrocketed from February to March, has also experienced stock price correction in some stocks in the past month.
(source: tonghuashun Ifind)
Therefore, for the concept of medical glass, mask