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Global virus death toll tops 3,000 as second man dies in US
Mar 02, 2020 (AFP)
The virus has now infected more than 89,000 people and spread to over 60 countries after first emerging in China late last year. A second person died in the nor...
Indonesia confirms first coronavirus cases
Mar 02, 2020 (AFP)
A 64-year-old woman and her daughter, 31, tested positive for the virus at a Jakarta hospital, said health minister Terawan Agus Putranto. "This morning I recei...
What is the real size of the coronavirus epidemic in Iran?
Mar 01, 2020 (AFP)
While Iran has acknowledged 54 deaths among 978 confirmed infections nationwide -- with a vice-president and deputy health minister among those testing positive...
Trump moves to calm virus fears after first death on US soil
Mar 01, 2020 (AFP)
The virus has now hit 62 countries across the globe, prompting the World Health Organization to raise its risk assessment to its highest level. Worldwide, nearl...
Kenya court blocks flights from China over virus fears
Feb 28, 2020 (AFP)
On Wednesday, Kenya allowed 239 passengers to alight from a China Southern flight from Guangzhou, with the health ministry merely advising those on board to sel...
Hong Kong pets face coronavirus quarantine after dog tests positive
Feb 28, 2020 (AFP)
The move is the first reported case anywhere in the world of a government quarantining pets over the outbreak and was prompted by a positive test in the pet of ...
China reports 44 new virus deaths, lowest rise in new cases in over a month
Feb 28, 2020 (AFP)
The death toll now stands at 2,788 in mainland China, according to the National Health Commission. The number of fatalities -- which is up from the 29 reported ...
Japan at 'crossroads' on virus outbreak, expert warns
Feb 27, 2020 (AFP)
Norio Ohmagari, an infectious disease specialist, told AFP in an interview that he believes measures being taken by the government can still prevent the virus f...
Japanese woman tests positive for virus after 'recovery'; Nation at 'crossroads' expert warns
Feb 27, 2020 (AFP)
The case is the first time a patient apparently cleared of the virus has subsequently tested positive for it, a local official in Osaka said. The woman in her 4...
China reports 29 more virus deaths, lowest since January
Feb 27, 2020 (AFP)
The death toll now stands at 2,744 in mainland China, according to the National Health Commission. The daily tally of fatalities has fallen for three straight d...
Iraq closes public spaces as first coronavirus case hits capital
Feb 27, 2020 (AFP)
The government announced sweeping measures late Wednesday to try to contain the spread of the virus, ordering the closure of schools and universities, cafes, ci...
Trump mulls travel bans on Italy, S. Korea over coronavirus
Feb 27, 2020 (AFP)
But a short while after an upbeat press conference by the US president, health authorities said they had detected the first case of unknown origin in the countr...
Trump downplays epidemic fears as virus spreads around world
Feb 27, 2020 (AFP)
China is no longer the only breeding ground for the deadly virus as countries fret over possible contagion coming from other hotbeds of infection, including Ira...
Japan PM calls for nationwide closure of schools over virus
Feb 27, 2020 (AFP)
The move comes as crew members from the Diamond Princess, a coronavirus-stricken cruise ship quarantined off Japan, began leaving the vessel where more than 700...
IMF, World Bank funds ready to fight virus outbreak: spokesman
Feb 27, 2020 (AFP)
While they have yet to receive a request for aid, the institutions "have now developed contingency plans. We have various financial instruments that could be us...
Global virus epidemic at 'decisive point': WHO chief
Feb 27, 2020 (AFP)
Some 2,760 people have died around the world and more than 80,000 have been infected in the outbreak, which was first detected in China in December and has spre...
Coronavirus cases emerging faster outside China: WHO
Feb 26, 2020 (AFP)
"Yesterday, the number of new cases reported outside China exceeded the number of new cases in China for the first time," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus t...
Russia warns against travel to Italy, Iran, SKorea over virus
Feb 26, 2020 (AFP)
Noting the spike in cases in the three countries, consumer safety regulator Rospotrebnadzor urged Russians to avoid travel there "until the epidemiological situ...
Hong Kong to give big cash handouts as economy reels from virus
Feb 26, 2020 (AFP)
Financial Secretary Paul Chan unveiled the cash gift in an annual budget, committing a colossal HK$120 billion to help alleviate the worst economic downtown the...
Dozens allowed off Japan virus-hit ship have 'symptoms': minister
Feb 26, 2020 (AFP)
The news came as another death linked to the virus in Japan was reported and the government urged organisers of major events in the next fortnight to consider c...
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