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UN Security Council halts meetings due to coronavirus epidemic
Mar 17, 2020 (AFP)
After the earlier cancellation of the meeting planned for Tuesday, the Security Council was planning to discuss the situation in Sudan's Darfur region and hold ...
US and China trade barbs over coronavirus
Mar 17, 2020 (AFP)
"It did come from China, so I think it's very accurate," Trump told a news conference, defending tweets in which he used the label for the COVID-19 pandemic. Tr...
Italy virus toll leaps as global deaths pass 6,000
Mar 16, 2020 (AFP)
The number of fatalities in Italy shot up by 368 to 1,809 -- more than half of all the cases recorded outside China. The Vatican took the drastic step of cancel...
Defender-Europe 20 exercise curtailed; US Navy reports first case on ship
Mar 16, 2020 (UPI)
About 20,000 U.S. soldiers, including those of the Army Reserves, Active Duty, and National Guard were expected to join personnel from 10 European countries in ...
Polish environment minister has coronavirus
Mar 16, 2020 (AFP)
The EU nation of 38 million people has 156 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including three deaths. It has shut its borders to foreign travellers and closed schools...
US Navy reports first suspected virus case on ship
Mar 16, 2020 (AFP)
It came a week after another US Navy sailor stationed in southern Italy contracted COVID-19, which has killed more than 3,700 people worldwide including nearly ...
Coronavirus drugs: Who's doing what, and when they might come
Mar 16, 2020 (AFP)
According to Benjamin Neuman, a virologist at Texas A and M University-Texarkana, immunizing against the pathogen is a long shot: There has never been a very su...
US, Germany battle for virus vaccine surpremacy
Mar 16, 2020 (AFP)
According to the paper, US President Donald Trump is trying to poach German scientists working on an experimental vaccine against a global health threat that ha...
US begins first human trial of coronavirus vaccine
Mar 16, 2020 (AFP)
But it may be another year to 18 months before it becomes available, once it has passed more trial phases to prove it works and is safe. The vaccine is called m...
China hits out at Nobel laureate Vargas Llosa over virus article
Mar 16, 2020 (AFP)
The writer penned an article for Spain's El Pais newspaper and La Republica in Peru in which he said the coronavirus outbreak would have played out differently ...
Staying safe, and sane, as Silicon Valley locks down for virus
Mar 15, 2020 (AFP)
His wife Mitra Ahani is taking no chances as the coronavirus pandemic spreads in the United States -- even though she knows her husband may have no more than a ...
Beijing to send all international arrivals to quarantine facilities
Mar 15, 2020 (AFP)
People arriving from abroad had previously been allowed to undergo the mandatory two-week quarantine at home, but now only those in "special circumstances" will...
Swiss region shuts down as army prepares to deploy over virus
Mar 14, 2020 (AFP)
Authorities in Ticino, which borders hard-hit Italy, announced during a news conference that all restaurants, bars and shops with the exception of food stores a...
Former NATO chief Javier Solana has coronavirus
Mar 14, 2020 (AFP)
"He tested positive and is evolving favourably," the source told AFP, confirming a report in conservative newspaper ABC which said he had been hospitalised for ...
Coronavirus curfew shuts down cities in Iraq's Kurdish region
Mar 14, 2020 (AFP)
Overnight Friday to Saturday, Arbil and the city of Sulaimaniyah, both in Iraq's autonomous northern Kurdish region, began a 48-hour curfew to combat the spread...
US declares emergency as new virus epicenter Europe locks down
Mar 14, 2020 (AFP)
Wall Street stocks rallied Friday as financial markets endured a rollercoaster ride after a week of spectacular losses triggered by fears that the deadly outbre...
China sends experts, aid to Italy to help virus fight
Mar 13, 2020 (AFP)
China, the epicentre of the outbreak that first emerged in December, has said the peak of the epidemic has passed in the country after a steady decline in the n...
Last of Apple's 42 stores in China reopen
Mar 13, 2020 (AFP)
The firm announced on February 1 that it would shut all its stores, corporate offices and contact centres across the mainland as the epidemic rapidly spread. Mo...
China reports fewest new virus cases on record
Mar 13, 2020 (AFP)
The National Health Commission said there were five more people infected in Hubei's capital Wuhan, where the virus first emerged in December. The numbers are th...
China shuts down Everest over coronavirus
Mar 13, 2020 (AFP)
Last year's traffic-clogged spring window saw a record 885 people summit Everest, 644 of them from Nepal and 241 from the northern flank in Tibet. The Nepal sid...
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