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BEIJING, China (AFP) — Police in China’s virus epicenter Wuhan acted “inappropriately” by punishing a doctor who blew the whistle on the outbreak that has now killed more than 9,000 worldwide, a Chinese government investigation found Thursday. Li Wenliang, one of a group of doctors in Wuhan who shared posts on social media warning of a SARS-like virus spreading in the city in December, was reprimanded by police for sharing the information and made to […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — A 103-year-old woman in Iran has recovered after being infected with the new coronavirus, state media reported, despite overwhelming evidence the elderly are most at risk from the disease. The unnamed woman had been hospitalised in the central city of Semnan for about a week, IRNA news agency said. But she was “discharged after making a complete recovery”, Semnan University of Medical Sciences head Navid Danayi was quoted as saying by […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — Iranian authorities on Thursday announced 149 new deaths from the novel coronavirus, raising the toll to 1,284 in a country that is one of the worst-hit by the pandemic. While Thursday’s death toll surpassed that of the previous day’s — 147 were reported on Wednesday — the number of new cases has fallen, according to figures provided by Deputy Health Minister Alireza Raisi. A total of 18,407 people have contracted the […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Thursday lifted a state of emergency declared last month over the new coronavirus, saying it sees signs of the outbreak tapering off. The governor of Hokkaido prefecture announced the emergency measure on February 28, as infections in the region grew. The call urged residents to avoid unnecessary outings, though it did not come with aggressive enforcement measures of the sort being implemented now in […]
WUHAN, China (AFP) — A network of makeshift barriers has kept residents walled in their neighborhoods for weeks in Wuhan, the Chinese city at the heart of the coronavirus pandemic. The city of 11 million, where the virus first erupted, became a ghost town after authorities prevented people from leaving on January 23. With thousands of patients swarming hospitals every week, authorities tightened the restrictions in early February, confining people to their homes. Closing off […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russia registered the first death of a patient infected with the coronavirus on Thursday, an elderly woman who had been hospitalized in Moscow, health officials said. The 79-year-old, who had tested positive, was hospitalized on March 13 and had several other conditions including diabetes and heart problems, Moscow’s coronavirus response headquarters said on social media. © Agence France-Presse
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China on Thursday reported no new domestic cases of the coronavirus for the first time since it started recording them in January but recorded a spike in infections from abroad. The lack of domestic infections marks a major milestone in China’s containment efforts, but the rise in imported cases threatens to unravel its progress. There were 34 cases that were brought in from abroad, the biggest daily increase in two weeks, […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday defended the response to the new coronavirus outbreak by his administration, which has yet to impose a lockdown to stop the disease spreading. The COVID-19 outbreak in sanctions-hit Iran is one of the deadliest outside China, where the disease originated. Rouhani’s government says the virus has killed 1,135 people and infected 17,161 others in the month since it first emerged in the Islamic republic. “Some […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan’s prime minister said Wednesday the country will expand quarantine measures and a ban on entry from parts of countries including Italy and Spain affected by the coronavirus outbreak. The announcement by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe adds parts of Italy, Spain and Switzerland and all of Iceland to existing rules banning the entry of foreign travelers coming from hard-hit parts of China, South Korea and elsewhere. The new measures also expand […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — Iran said Wednesday that the novel coronavirus has killed 147 more people, a new single-day record in the virus-stricken country that raised the overall toll to 1,135. “Now everyone knows about this disease, and what is very strange is that some don’t take it seriously,” Deputy Health Minister Alireza Raisi said in a televised news conference. “If people help, we can control it, and if not, then expect it to last […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — The World Health Organization called for “aggressive” action in Southeast Asia to combat the fast-spreading coronavirus, warning Tuesday that some countries were heading towards community transmission of the deadly disease. Infections have soared across the region in recent weeks, forcing several countries to introduce drastic measures ranging from closing their borders to foreign arrivals and imposing nighttime curfews to closing schools and cancelling sports events. There are concerns that weaker […]
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — Turkey confirmed its first novel coronavirus-related death on Tuesday as the number of cases in the country rose to 98. “Today, I lost my first patient in our fight against coronavirus,” Health Minister Fahrettin Koca told a televised press conference, adding that the victim was an 89-year-old man who contracted the virus from an employee with connections to China. The minister also said the number of cases had risen from 47 […]
