Will any country close its borders to non-citizens citing hantavirus by July 1?
On 31 Jan 2020 the US barred non-citizens who had recently been in China — the first major COVID border action. Tracks any country imposing entry bans citing hantavirus.
Resolves YES if any sovereign government publishes an official entry ban or quarantine-on-arrival policy specifically naming hantavirus before 2026-07-01.
On settlement the oracle attaches a signed snapshot of each source URL plus a SHA-256 hash of the page content captured at resolution time. Disputes have a 7-day arbitration window.
cited: Government immigration/MFA notices + IHR National Focal Point
Resolution sources · 4
Wire-grade source; resolves the NYT/major-media markets.
Cheap sentiment + earliest-mover for translated regional press. Run a dedup hash on titles + canonical URL.
Global news ingestion — geocoded, multilingual. Best signal for non-English regional outbreaks.
RSS at /rss-feeds/disease-outbreak-news.xml. Filter items containing 'hantavirus' or DON#599. Each item links to a permalink with structured 'Situation at a glance' / 'Epidemiology' / 'WHO risk assessment' sections — scrape with cheerio.
ETL workers poll these feeds and merge into the resolution oracle.full registry