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BEIJING, China (AFP) — The death toll from China’s new coronavirus outbreak has risen to 259 and the tally of confirmed infections has surged to nearly 12,000, the government said on Saturday. The National Health Commission said in its daily update that 46 more people had succumbed to the respiratory disease. All but one of the new deaths came in hardest-hit Hubei province, the epicentre of an outbreak that has spread around the […]
(Eagle News) — The travel ban announced by President Rodrigo Duterte following the confirmation of the Philippines’ first novel coronavirus case also covers other places in China where there is “a spread of the disease, as officially confirmed by the Chinese government.” In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said the temporary ban on travelers coming from those areas was upon the recommendation of Health Secretary Francisco Duque III. Earlier, Duterte, Senator Bong Go said, […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — A total of 18 South Korean evacuees who arrived from the Chinese city of Wuhan have been hospitalised after showing symptoms, Seoul’s health authorities said Friday, as concerns mount about a wider outbreak of the SARS-like virus. A chartered plane carrying a total of 368 South Korean citizens arrived in the South from Wuhan, where the virus is believed to have emerged from an animal and seafood market, on […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China sent two planes to Malaysia and Thailand on Friday to bring “stranded” Hubei province residents back to the virus-stricken city of Wuhan, authorities said. The Xiamen Airlines flights will pick up the Chinese nationals from Kota Kinabalu in Malaysia and the Thai capital Bangkok, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). There are 117 nationals from Hubei province in Bangkok and 100 in Kota Kinabalu who are “willing […]
by Sébastien RICCI WUHAN, China (AFP) — France is preparing to airlift hundreds of its citizens from the Chinese city at the center of a deadly coronavirus outbreak, but one Frenchman is staying put. Philippe Klein is head of the International SOS Hospital in Wuhan, the first city to be locked down by Chinese authorities as they battle the spread of the virus. “It’s not an act of heroism. It’s been well thought out, it’s […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Health will recommend the expansion of the temporary ban for travelers from Hubei, China to the Philippines to travelers from other Chinese provinces. Health spokesperson Eric Domingo, who read from a statement on Friday, Jan. 31, did not specifically say what these other provinces were but said the recommendation was as “new information on the increasing number of cases per region rises.” So far, Domingo said the number of […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — Prominent figures in Chinese communities in Italy warned Thursday of episodes of “latent racism” against their compatriots by Italians fearful of catching a deadly viral outbreak. Tensions increased after some 7,000 people were held on a cruise ship in an Italian port following the isolation of two Chinese passengers over fears they could be carrying the coronavirus, despite preliminary tests coming up negative. Italian newspapers have reported cases of bullying or […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — The Chinese government is to send charter planes to bring citizens from virus-hit Hubei province who are overseas back “as soon as possible”, the foreign ministry said Friday. This is in view of “practical difficulties that Hubei citizens, especially those from Wuhan, have faced overseas”, said the ministry of foreign affairs spokeswoman Hua Chunying. The ministry’s comments come as a number of airlines announced they were halting or reducing flights to […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Markets rose in Asia on Friday after the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency over the deadly new virus sweeping China. After saying last week they needed more information, the WHO invoked the rarely used designation that experts hope will lead to better international co-ordination to combat a disease that has already killed 200 people, and sickened thousands more. But the Geneva-based body stopped short of recommending trade […]
by Sonia Logre with Ella Ide in Rome CIVITAVECCHIA, Italy (AFP) — Thousands of stranded tourists were free to disembark from a cruise ship at an Italian port after authorities said two Chinese passengers feared to have the coronavirus tested negative Thursday. Italy’s Institute for infectious diseases examined samples taken from a Chinese woman ill with a fever, as well as her traveling companion, and both were negative for coronavirus, the health ministry said. Italian […]
by Sébastien RICCI Agence France Presse WUHAN, China (AFP) — The World Health Organization declared a global emergency over the new coronavirus, as China reported Friday the death toll had climbed to 213 with nearly 10,000 infections. The UN health agency based in Geneva had initially downplayed the threat posed by the disease, but revised its risk assessment after crisis talks. “Our greatest concern is the potential for the virus to spread to countries […]
WUHAN, China (AFP) — A jet carrying around 200 French citizens flew out of the virus-hit Chinese city of Wuhan on Friday, according to AFP journalists on board the flight. The French military aircraft is bound for southern France, where the passengers will undergo a 14-day quarantine, in case they are carrying the new coronavirus. The United States and Japan have already carried out airlifts from Wuhan for their citizens. A second US flight is […]
