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| Coronavirus: Plague Inc. game banned in China - BBC News Posted: 28 Feb 2020 12:00 AM PST  Image copyright Plague Inc A game which challenges players to spread a deadly virus around the world has been banned in China, its makers have said. Plague Inc. has been pulled from the Chinese app store for including "illegal content", British-based developer Ndemic Creations said. It added that it is working "very hard" to find a way to reverse the ban. The bans comes as China continues to battle the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. In a statement, Ndemic Creations said: "We have some very sad news to share with our China-based players. We've just been informed that Plague Inc. 'includes content that is illegal in China as determined by the Cyberspace Administration of China' and has been removed from the China App Store. This situation is completely out of our control. "It's not clear to us if this removal is linked to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak that China is facing. However, Plague Inc.'s educational importance has been repeatedly recognised by organisations like the CDC [Centre for Disease Control and Prevention] and we are currently working with major global health organisations to determine how we can best support their efforts to contain and control Covid-19." It said that it was "devastated" for its Chinese players, adding that the game "encourages players to think and learn more about serious public health issues". Plague Inc. has become a huge hit since it was launched eight years ago. It now has 130 million players worldwide and soared in popularity in China amid the coronavirus outbreak, becoming the bestselling app in the country in January. Some players suggested they were downloading the game as a way to cope with fears surrounding the virus.  |
| Don’t use ‘Plague Inc.’ smartphone game to predict coronavirus, developer says - Global News Posted: 28 Jan 2020 01:14 PM PST Developers behind the popular smartphone game Plague Inc. are trying to put a damper on their own viral success, amid a surge in interest related to the coronavirus outbreak spreading from China in recent weeks. The game challenges users to infect — and ultimately wipe out — all human life on Earth, using the realistic transmission and mutation mechanics of various diseases. Each game starts with an infection in one country, and users spread that infection by mutating the disease to add transmission vectors and symptoms. The game urges players to think about how diseases might spread in real life. "Plague Inc. is a hyper-realistic model of the world," the game tells its users. "Plan your strategy and evolve your disease accordingly." The game has been a top performer on the App Store and Google Play for years, but its popularity has spiked amid fears of the coronavirus that was first reported in Wuhan, China.  "We specifically designed the game to be realistic and informative, while not sensationalizing serious real-world issues," developer Ndemic Creations wrote in a statement. [ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ] "However, please remember that Plague Inc. is a game, not a scientific model and that the current coronavirus outbreak is a very real situation which is impacting a huge number of people." The developer says its site crashed last week amid the viral popularity of its game. Plague Inc. has been applauded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, Ndemic says people shouldn't take that to mean it's a substitute for the World Health Organization and other public health organizations. Coronavirus-Plague Inc. memes have spread widely online since the outbreak, and some users have claimed to use the game as a simulator. Anxiety has been high around the world amid a viral outbreak that has spread from a suspected origin point in Wuhan, China. The disease spreads through the droplets a person releases when coughing or sneezing, and has an incubation period of 1-14 days. It is being commonly referred to as coronavirus, although that term actually applies to a whole family of viruses, including the ones behind Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). The World Health Organization simply calls it a "novel coronavirus" with the temporary name 2019-nCoV. Face masks have been flying off the shelves, racism has crept into the picture and people around the world are closely watching for new cases outside of China's borders. Health officials have identified the first Canadian cases of the virus in Toronto and the Vancouver area. View link »© 2020 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.  |
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