Shares Shoot to Limit as Wuhan Infrared Firm Sets Thermal Scanners to Spot Pneumonia
Dou Shicong
DATE:  Jan 21 2020
/ SOURCE:  yicai
Shares Shoot to Limit as Wuhan Infrared Firm Sets Thermal Scanners to Spot Pneumonia Shares Shoot to Limit as Wuhan Infrared Firm Sets Thermal Scanners to Spot Pneumonia

(Yicai Global) Jan. 21 -- Wuhan Guide Infrared stock has risen to the stop-trade mark after it deployed 53 of its latest-generation thermal detectors at Wuhan's international airport, three of the city's major railway stations and other densely-traveled areas to curb the spread of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Securities Times reported today.

Guide Infrared's shares [SHE:002414] went through the roof in the afternoon to CNY32.10 (USD4.68), stopping trading at the bourse-mandated 10 percent price ceiling at 2.36 p.m.

The imaging devices scan large public places, immediately pinpointing and tracking people with higher body temperatures, Guide Infrared said today. The company was also active in the security work during the 2003-2004 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, it added.

Coronaviruses are common viruses that cause infections of the nose, sinuses or throat. Most are not dangerous, but some are deadly. The name corona ('crown') describes their circular structure with its radiating filaments. A novel coronavirus is a new strain not previously seen in humans.

SARS was a viral respiratory disease of zoonotic origin caused by the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV). Between November 2002 and July 2003, an outbreak of the disease in South China yielded an eventual 8,098 cases, resulting in 774 deaths in 37 countries. Most cases cropped up in China and Hong Kong. The virus had an almost one-in-10 fatality rate, according to the World Health Organization. No new cases have been reported worldwide since 2004. Chinese scientists traced the virus through the vector of civet cats sold for meat in a Guangzhou market to cave-dwelling bats in Yunnan province in late 2017.

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Keywords:   Wuhan Guide Infrared,Wuhan Pneumonia