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China quarantines 94 people on Seoul flight after 3 show fever
Feb 26, 2020 (AFP)
The three passengers, all Chinese, arrived in the city of Nanjing on Tuesday morning and were discovered after customs personnel boarded the aircraft on landing...
Virus hits more countries as health official warns world 'not ready'
Feb 26, 2020 (AFP)
The virus has rapidly spread in parts of Asia, Europe and the Middle East, even as the number of fresh cases and deaths decline at the disease epicentre in Chin...
China reports 52 more virus deaths, lowest in 3 weeks
Feb 26, 2020 (AFP)
All the new deaths were in the outbreak epicentre Hubei province, which accounted for 401 of the 406 new infections reported Wednesday, the National Health Comm...
More virus deaths outside China raise pandemic fears
Feb 25, 2020 (AFP)
The rapid spread abroad came as the World Health Organization announced that the epidemic had peaked at its epicentre in China, where it has killed more than 2,...
Iraq confirms four more cases; Schools, shrines shut in Najaf
Feb 25, 2020 (AFP)
The health ministry said the four were quarantined in Kirkuk, an oil-rich region north of Baghdad, where the governor said authorities were implementing emergen...
Virus-hit China set to postpone parliament for first time in decades
Feb 24, 2020 (AFP)
Top Communist Party leaders including President Xi Jinping attend each year's gathering of the National People's Congress, which rubber-stamps bills, budgets an...
Virus 'peaked' in China but could trigger global pandemic: WHO
Feb 24, 2020 (AFP)
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the peak in China occurred between January 23 and February 2 and the number of new cases there "has been declining ste...
Hong Kong to bar non-resident arrivals from S.Korea over virus
Feb 24, 2020 (AFP)
"Considering the development of the epidemic in South Korea, the Security Bureau will issue a red travel alert," John Lee told reporters Monday. The notice mean...
Two more Japan officials aboard ship contract coronavirus
Feb 24, 2020 (AFP)
The announcement came as experts warned the next one to three weeks would be "crucial" to preventing widespread infections and as fears deepen that the isolatio...
Italy announces three deaths linked to coronavirus
Feb 24, 2020 (AFP)
The death of the woman in a hospital in the small city of Crema in Lombardy, the centre of Italy's coronavirus scare, followed that of a 77-year-old woman on Sa...
Iran denies virus coverup after claim of 50 deaths
Feb 24, 2020 (AFP)
The authorities in Iran have come under mounting public pressure since it took days for them to admit to "accidentally" shooting down a Ukrainian airliner last ...
China slightly eases Wuhan's virus quarantine measures
Feb 24, 2020 (AFP)
The city of 11 million has been under lockdown since January 23 after authorities shut down transport links into and out of the city in an effort to contain the...
'No one cares': Locked-in Wuhan residents adapt to find food
Feb 24, 2020 (AFP)
Unable to go out, the 29-year-old is now sealed inside her compound where she has to depend on online group-buying services to get food. "Living for at least an...
South Korea on frontline as coronavirus spreads
Feb 24, 2020 (AFP)
The number of fatalities in China also continued to soar, with 150 more confirmed deaths taking the official death toll to nearly 2,600. Chinese authorities ins...
Paris braces for tourism hit as virus keeps Chinese at home
Feb 24, 2020 (AFP)
"For now, airline forecasts suggest a 60 percent drop in Chinese visitors for February, March and April compared with the same period last year," said Valerie P...
China reports 150 more virus deaths
Feb 24, 2020 (AFP)
Monday's death toll was a jump on the 97 deaths reported Sunday. The commission also confirmed a total of 409 new cases in China, with all but 11 in Hubei. Mult...
Iran neighbours impose travel bans as coronavirus toll rises
Feb 23, 2020 (AFP)
Four immediate neighbours of the Islamic republic -- Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Armenia -- said on Sunday they would close land borders, while three impo...
Spread of coronavirus confirms WHO fears, say experts
Feb 23, 2020 (AFP)
"There has been a profound shift in the direction that COVID-19 (new coronavirus) is taking over the past 48 hours," said Professor Devi Sridhar, Director of th...
Floating Petri dishes? Coronavirus puts cruise industry in the dock
Feb 23, 2020 (AFP)
Cruise-goers have fallen sick en masse in the past, their predicament on the high seas coming into sharp focus because the holidays can cost thousands of dollar...
China calls coronavirus 'largest public health emergency' since founding
Feb 23, 2020 (AFP)
Italy reported a spike in cases Sunday as it closed its famed Venice carnival early, while Iran said eight people had died from the virus there, prompting trave...
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