EPIDEMICS - INTERN DAILY

An app a day: China embraces tele-medicine to keep the doctor away

Mar 09, 2020 (AFP)

The physician says she probably has the common cold and prescribes rest, in a cyber-consultation that embodies the huge push the coronavirus epidemic has given ...

China closes makeshift hospitals as virus cases plunge

Mar 09, 2020 (AFP)

There were 40 new cases nationwide, the National Health Commission said Monday, the lowest number of fresh cases since it started reporting the data in January....

China reports 27 new virus deaths, lowest rise in cases since January

Mar 08, 2020 (AFP)

There were 27 new deaths from the virus, all in Wuhan and the lowest in more than a month, bringing the nationwide toll to 3,097, according to the National Heal...

Quarter of Italians on lockdown as virus sweeps globe

Mar 08, 2020 (AFP)

Italy's COVID-19 death count is now 233, more than any other country outside China. The outbreak has now killed more than 3,500 people and infected over 105,000...

People at centre of China's virus outbreak say time to end lockdown

Mar 08, 2020 (AFP)

Tang lives in central Hubei province, whose nearly 60 million residents have been under lockdown since late January as the government rushed to put a lid on a v...

Pompeo speaks of 'Wuhan virus' despite China's protests

Mar 06, 2020 (AFP)

For the second day in a row, Pompeo on Friday publicly referred to COVID-19 as the "Wuhan virus" or "Wuhan coronavirus," a reference to the central Chinese metr...

Wuhan doctor recounts fears and hope at virus frontline; Toll surpasses 3,000

Mar 05, 2020 (AFP)

When 43-year-old Ma was first summoned to a sports stadium converted into a medical facility on February 4, it was a virtual construction site with electrical w...

290 million students out of school as global virus battle intensifies

Mar 05, 2020 (AFP)

More than 95,000 people have been infected and over 3,200 have died worldwide from the virus, which by Thursday had reached some 80 countries and territories. I...

Japan to quarantine visitors from China, South Korea over virus

Mar 05, 2020 (AFP)

"We will strengthen immigration quarantines on people from the two countries," Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told a cabinet-level taskforce meeting on the virus. "W...

Pet dog infected with COVID-19, Hong Kong authorities confirm

Mar 04, 2020 (AFP)

The canine, which belongs to a 60-year-old woman patient, had repeatedly tested "weak positive" for the new coronavirus since Friday, when it was quarantined at...

Iraq announces two coronavirus deaths

Mar 04, 2020 (AFP)

A 70-year-old Muslim cleric died on Wednesday from the virus, the first death from the outbreak in a country where 31 people have been infected. The Iraqi preac...

China reports fall in new virus cases for third day, 38 more deaths

Mar 04, 2020 (AFP)

The death toll nationwide is now 2,981, the National Health Commission said, with more than 80,200 people infected in total. There were 115 new cases in central...

IMF chief calls for all-out offensive to counteract epidemic

Mar 04, 2020 (AFP)

"At a time of uncertainty... it is better to do more than to do not enough," she said, warning that the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak will slow growth in the ...

China censored virus news for weeks, say researchers

Mar 03, 2020 (AFP)

Although Chinese authorities did not publicly acknowledge the severity of the virus until January 20, censorship began as early as December 31, said researchers...

US coronavirus death toll rises as Chinese cases fall

Mar 03, 2020 (AFP)

Worldwide, close to 3,100 people have succumbed to the illness even as a clear shift in the crisis was emerging, with nine times as many cases recorded outside ...

WHO says world in uncharted territory as US virus toll rises

Mar 03, 2020 (AFP)

Globally, the virus has killed more than 3,100 people and infected over 90,000 even as a clear shift in the crisis emerges, with nine times as many new cases re...

Google cancels developers gathering due to coronavirus

Mar 03, 2020 (AFP)

The internet giant said it nixed the festival-like event Google I/O event scheduled for May a short distance from the "Googleplex" in the Silicon Valley city of...

China reports rise in imported virus cases

Mar 03, 2020 (AFP)

In total there have been 13 confirmed cases of the virus being imported to the mainland -- all in Chinese nationals returning from overseas. More than 3,100 peo...

World failed to learn SARS lessons for coronavirus fight

Mar 03, 2020 (AFP)

The last outbreak of worldwide signficance was the SARS virus scare of the early 2000s, which killed 774 people. More recently the Mers virus killed more than 8...

Swiss soldiers confined to base after virus case

Mar 03, 2020 (AFP)

A man tested positive for COVID-19 Monday as he was preparing to carry out a required military refresher course, the Swiss armed forces said in a statement. In ...