EPIDEMICS - INTERN DAILY

Asia virus latest: Modi apologises, Australia limits gatherings

Mar 29, 2020 (AFP)

- Modi asks Indians for forgiveness - India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi apologised to citizens for the sweeping 21-day lockdown that has brought the country ...

China's virus epicentre pivots to stem imported cases

Mar 29, 2020 (AFP)

Travel restrictions have been loosened, with Wuhan's busy train station officially resuming inbound services on Saturday and highways reopened as the unpreceden...

Spain toughens lockdown as toll nears 5,700, and UK surges past 1,000

Mar 28, 2020 (AFP)

Spain has the world's second-highest coronavirus death toll after Italy, losing another 832 people over the last 24 hours as the number of cases soared to 72,24...

Asia virus latest: China epicentre starts to reopen, security talks off

Mar 28, 2020 (AFP)

- Wuhan eases travel rules - Wuhan, the central Chinese city where the coronavirus first emerged last year, partly reopened on Saturday after more than two mont...

Epidemic infects Europe with 'germ of division'

Mar 28, 2020 (AFP)

A debt crisis in Mediterranean countries, a series of refugee influxes and the ongoing saga on Brexit all rattled the European project but did not sink it. They...

Italy, Spain suffer record virus deaths as infection rate surges

Mar 27, 2020 (SPX)

With more than 300,000 people infected in Europe alone, the disease shows few signs of slowing, and has already cast the world into a recession, economists say....

US tops world in virus cases and logs record unemployment

Mar 27, 2020 (AFP)

Healthcare systems in even the most developed nations are being stretched to breaking point with grim warnings they could soon be overwhelmed -- and a predictio...

China bans foreigners, markets up on stimulus

Mar 27, 2020 (AFP)

- China bars foreigners to halt second wave - Foreigners are banned from entering China, while non-nationals with valid visas and resident permits will be block...

Northern Ireland sportswear factory scrubs up in virus fight

Mar 27, 2020 (AFP)

"You always feel proud of your product," business development manager Orla Ward told AFP. "But this is just on another level because you really are getting it t...

Coronavirus transmission during pregnancy rare but possible: study

Mar 26, 2020 (AFP)

The team followed 33 pregnant women from Wuhan, the city where the disease behind a deadly pandemic was first identified -- and found that three babies were inf...

Spain overtakes China with 3,434 virus deaths

Mar 25, 2020 (AFP)

The spike in fatalities means that across the globe, only Italy -- with 7,503 deaths -- now has a higher death toll than Spain. In China, where the virus emerge...

20 NATO troops in Lithuania have coronavirus: spokesman

Mar 25, 2020 (AFP)

Dutch captain Evert-Jan Daniels confirmed that two infected Dutch soldiers were flown to the Netherlands for treatment but declined to disclose the nationalitie...

China's imported virus cases spike as fears grow of second wave

Mar 24, 2020 (AFP)

The first new case in nearly a week was also reported in Wuhan -- the epicentre where the virus emerged last year -- along with three other local infections els...

Pentagon sees coronavirus crisis lasting several months

Mar 24, 2020 (AFP)

"I think we need to plan for this to be a few months long at least," US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said, judging from the experience of countries like China, ...

Divisions among Hong Kong expats over virus response

Mar 23, 2020 (AFP)

Despite its proximity to the Chinese mainland, the financial hub has managed to stave off a runaway outbreak of the deadly virus partly thanks to the public ove...

Hong Kong bars non-residents, limits alcohol over virus

Mar 23, 2020 (AFP)

Despite its proximity to the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong has managed to stave off a runaway outbreak of the deadly virus partly thanks to the public overwhelmin...

How a virus forms its symmetric shells

Mar 23, 2020 (SPX)

A research team led by physicist Roya Zandi at the University of California, Riverside, has made progress is solving this mystery. The team reports in a paper p...

Russia sends virus experts, medics to Italy

Mar 22, 2020 (AFP)

The Russian defence ministry said the aid mission was agreed by President Vladimir Putin and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. They spoke on the phone Satu...

China's virus strategy: a model for the world?

Mar 22, 2020 (AFP)

China has reported only one new local infection over the past four days, a seemingly remarkable turnaround given the chaos that surrounded the initial outbreak ...

China reports Sunday first new local virus case in four days

Mar 22, 2020 (AFP)

While the number of virus cases has been falling over the past few weeks in China, there has been growing concern around imported cases as countries around the ...