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Europe worried about medicine stocks as coronavirus spreads
Feb 13, 2020 (AFP)
There haves so far been only around 35 detected cases of the COVID-19 strain in the EU, and no-one has died, but the scale of the outbreak in China has raised c...
Japan cruise ship virus cases jump to 218 as elderly offered escape; US cruise ship to dock in Cambodia
Feb 13, 2020 (AFP)
Thousands of passengers and crew on the Diamond Princess -- the single largest cluster of infected people outside China -- face several days more of quarantine,...
Foreigners stranded in Wuhan by virus tell of fear and rations
Feb 13, 2020 (AFP)
A coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 1,300 people and locked down the central Chinese city has left thousands of foreigners trapped as authorities i...
Japan woman with coronavirus dies as cruise ship cases soar
Feb 13, 2020 (AFP)
The woman in her 80s was tested for the virus after being hospitalised, and was confirmed positive after her death, Health Minister Katsunobu Kato told a news b...
WHO says 'way too early' to predict end of novel coronavirus
Feb 12, 2020 (AFP)
"I think it's way too early to try to predict the beginning, the middle or the end of this epidemic right now," Michael Ryan, head of WHO's health emergencies p...
'Exhausted': Doctors at China's virus epicentre overworked and unprotected
Feb 12, 2020 (AFP)
Tired and understaffed, medical workers have had to deal with thousands of new cases per week in Wuhan, the city at the epicentre of the outbreak that first eme...
China retreats online to weather coronavirus storm
Feb 12, 2020 (AFP)
China remains in crisis mode weeks after the epidemic exploded, with much of the country shut down and the government pushing work-from-home policies to prevent...
Japan cruise ship coronavirus cases climb to 174
Feb 12, 2020 (AFP)
The ship that originally had over 3,700 passengers and crew on board has become the largest single cluster of the newly named COVID-19 disease outside its origi...
Indonesia criticises US study concerns over no coronavirus cases
Feb 12, 2020 (AFP)
The virus has killed more than 1,100 people in China and spread to dozens of countries around the world -- but the Southeast Asian nation of more than 260 milli...
WHO chief sees chance to stop virus, warns of 'grave' threat
Feb 11, 2020 (AFP)
The WHO is holding a conference in Geneva on combating the virus, which has killed more than 1,100 people in China and spread to dozens of countries around the ...
UK team tests China virus vaccine on mice; As 'super-spreader' recovers
Feb 11, 2020 (AFP)
Researchers at Imperial College London said their ultimate goal was to have an effective and safe way of halting the SARS-like strain's spread by the end of the...
UK team tests China virus vaccine on mice
Feb 11, 2020 (AFP)
Researchers at Imperial College London said their ultimate goal was to have an effective and safe way of halting the SARS-like strain's spread by the end of the...
Eight days in Wuhan, cut off from the world
Feb 11, 2020 (AFP)
The city of 11 million was placed under an unprecedented quarantine to try and stop the spread of a deadly new coronavirus. The virus, which has since gone on t...
WHO names deadly virus from China as 'COVID-19'
Feb 11, 2020 (AFP)
"We now have a name for the disease and it's COVID-19," World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in Geneva. Tedros said that "c...
China stutters back to work as virus deaths rise
Feb 10, 2020 (AFP)
At least 40,000 others have been infected by 2019-nCoV, which is believed to have emerged late last year in a market in Wuhan. And although the World Health Org...
Small businesses suffer as China virus shuts communities
Feb 10, 2020 (AFP)
The 35-year-old woman now spends her days disinfecting Yingfangyuan Farmhouse and its empty restaurant near Beijing, as millions of people across the country st...
WHO warns overseas virus spread may be 'tip of the iceberg'
Feb 10, 2020 (AFP)
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus' remarks come as members of a WHO-led "international expert mission" flew to China on Monday to help coordinate a response to the out...
Virus transforms daily life on Hong Kong's fearful streets
Feb 10, 2020 (AFP)
Many in the Asian financial hub of seven million -- where the 2002-03 SARS outbreak killed 299 people -- are weighing up their options against an unseen danger....
Scientists race to develop vaccine for new coronavirus
Feb 09, 2020 (AFP)
The new virus has spread rapidly since emerging late last year in China, killing more than 800 people in the mainland and infecting over 37,000. Cases have been...
China virus deaths rise past 800, overtaking SARS toll
Feb 09, 2020 (AFP)
With 89 more people dying -- most in Hubei, the province at the centre of the outbreak -- the toll is now higher than the 774 killed worldwide by Severe Acute R...
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