EPIDEMICS - INTERN DAILY

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...

DoD restricts travel for military personnel, families over COVID-19

Mar 12, 2020 (UPI)

The travel restrictions take effect Thursday and were announced within hours of President's Donald Trump's announcement that he would suspend travel to the Unit...

Italy shuts stores across country to fight virus

Mar 12, 2020 (AFP)

Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced the latest wave of restrictions in a dramatic appeal to the nation that came with the country of 60 million battling its...

China virus epicentre eases travel curbs as cases fall

Mar 12, 2020 (AFP)

Another 11 people died nationwide, the lowest daily increase since late January, bringing the toll in China to 3,169 deaths, according to the National Health Co...

Shock Trump ban on travel from Europe as China says virus has peaked

Mar 12, 2020 (AFP)

The announcement came as China, where the outbreak that first emerged in December, showed a dramatic drop in new cases and claimed "the peak" of the epidemic ha...

Indonesia busts Malaysians for virus-mask smuggling

Mar 12, 2020 (AFP)

Officials at the international airport in Sumatra's Medan city became suspicious and searched the pair's bags as they were about to board a flight to Kuala Lump...

China allows some firms to resume work at virus epicentre

Mar 11, 2020 (AFP)

The decision came a day after President Xi Jinping paid his first visit to the capital of Hubei province since it was placed under lockdown in late January afte...

China reports 22 new virus deaths as imported cases rise

Mar 11, 2020 (AFP)

There were 22 more deaths and 24 new cases nationwide, according to the National Health Commission. China has made massive progress in its battle against the vi...

Mass deprivation for Italy's Catholics during epidemic

Mar 11, 2020 (AFP)

In an effort to show compassion at one of the most trying times for Italians in generations, Pope Francis has asked priests to "have the courage to go out and v...

Coronavirus can live in air for 3 hours, on surfaces for 2-3 days

Mar 11, 2020 (UPI)

The research, which was carried out by scientists from the National Institutes of Health, Princeton University and UCLA, suggests it's possible for the virus to...

Pentagon cuts US participation in Europe war games; Norway does same

Mar 11, 2020 (AFP)

"After careful review of the ongoing Defender-Europe 20 exercise activities and in light of the current Coronavirus outbreak, we will modify the exercise by red...

Beijing orders quarantine for all international arrivals

Mar 11, 2020 (AFP)

China has made major strides in its battle against the virus, prompting President Xi Jinping to visit Wuhan, the central city at the heart of the global epidemi...

China to allow some firms to return to work in Wuhan

Mar 11, 2020 (AFP)

Businesses involved in providing daily necessities can resume work and production immediately, as can those that are key to "global industrial chains" after get...

Italy locks down as China signals major progress in virus fight

Mar 10, 2020 (AFP)

The outbreak, combined with a crash in oil prices, caused carnage on financial markets on Monday, sparking the biggest losses in more than a decade -- although ...

Macron on virus: 'We're just at beginning of this epidemic'

Mar 10, 2020 (AFP)

"We're just at the beginning of this epidemic," Macron said after a visit to the ambulance service in Paris, urging the French not to panic and saying the autho...

Japan readies 'state of emergency' coronavirus measures

Mar 10, 2020 (AFP)

If approved by parliament, the draft bill would give Prime Minister Shinzo Abe the power to declare a state of emergency and impose drastic measures but Tokyo s...

Italy locks down as China signals major progress in own virus fight

Mar 10, 2020 (AFP)

The outbreak, combined with a crash in oil prices, has caused carnage on financial markets, erasing billions of dollars globally. The World Health Organization ...

China's Xi says Wuhan has 'turned the tide' againt virus epidemic

Mar 10, 2020 (AFP)

Xi's visit came as unprecedented quarantine measures that have sealed off Wuhan and the rest of central Hubei province since late January appear to have paid of...

Global virus toll tops 4,000: AFP tally

Mar 10, 2020 (AFP)

The toll reached 4,011 in the outbreak that has spread to over 100 countries with more than 110,000 cases of infection. The epidemic has disrupted global travel...

China's Xi pays first visit to virus epicentre Wuhan

Mar 10, 2020 (AFP)

Xi's visit came as unprecedented quarantine measures that have sealed off Wuhan and the rest of central Hubei province since late January appear to have paid of...