The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday reported that at least 35 people in the United States are infected with the virus. Of those, 14 were travelers who fell ill after returning from a trip abroad, while 21 were were people “repatriated” by the State Department. Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC’s National Center for […]
Monthly Archives: February 2020
Schools, businesses and restaurant were closed in a dozen northern Italian towns Saturday following reports of two deaths tied to an outbreak of the coronavirus in the region. A female resident in the Lombardy region died only hours after a 77-year-old man succumbed near Padua, in the Veneto region, the ANSA news agency reported, citing health care […]
With new countries coming forward confirming cases of infected and experts casting doubt on China’s claims about the virus, it looks like we have yet to see how bad this outbreak really is. As health officials ask thousands to quarantine across the United States, a respected statistician is going public with dire claims […]
The first European death from the coronavirus has been confirmed. The 80-year-old Chinese tourist from the province of Hubei arrived in France on Jan. 16 and was later isolated and hospitalized on Jan. 25, Fox News reported. Officials say the man’s condition quickly deteriorated and he died on Friday. His daughter was hospitalized as well but she is expected […]
BEIJING (AP) — China’s leader on Saturday called the accelerating spread of a new virus a grave situation, as cities from the outbreak’s epicenter in central China to Hong Kong scrambled to contain an illness that has infected more than 1,200 people and killed 41. President Xi Jinping’s remarks, reported by state broadcaster CCTV, came […]
Asia’s coronavirus epidemic hit the Lunar New Year exodus of Hong Kong families to ancestral villages in Guangdong across the border. The epicenter of the outbreak, in Wuhan, the sprawling capital of China’s Hubei Province, is locked down along with surrounding cities by military deployment, affecting 50 million residents. So far 106 deaths have been […]
Health officials in Virginia investigating three suspected cases of the deadly coronavirus that’s killed more than 80 people in China and sickened thousands of others around the world have since confirmed that two of the cases are negative. Previously, the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) on its website announced that two suspected cases in central Virginia and one case in […]
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How is it different to the flu? Dr Senanayake said many people diagnosed with the coronavirus would feel like they had influenza. From Wuhan to Australia The deadly coronavirus is spreading across the globe, with no end in sight — here is a timeline of key events so far and what to expect next. “Some […]
As the number of people dying from coronavirus rockets well ahead of those killed by SARS, experts say the disease’s spread is now at a critical stage. Key points: Coronavirus experts said there were still many unknowns, with China “swamped” with coronavirus cases The virus is understood to be more contagious than SARS, with about 20-25 […]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the new strain of coronavirus, named COVID-19, a global public health emergency. The number of confirmed cases of the flu-like infection as of Wednesday had passed 75,000, and more than 2,000 people had died, surpassing the death toll from the 2003-2003 SARS outbreak. Here’s a rundown of everything […]
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