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BEIJING, China (AFP) — Coronavirus patients arrived Tuesday at a Chinese field hospital built from scratch in under two weeks at the frontline of the outbreak, state media said, following a round-the-clock construction marathon that became a national social media sensation. The 1,000-bed facility was built to relieve hospitals swamped with patients in Wuhan, the city in Hubei province at the epicentre of the national health emergency that has killed more in China […]
by Jing Xuan Teng and Beiyi Seow Agence France-Presse BEIJING, China (AFP) — China’s top leadership has admitted “shortcomings and difficulties” in its response to the coronavirus outbreak, as state media said a new hospital built at breakneck pace began receiving patients in the epicenter of the crisis. Sixty-four new deaths were confirmed on Tuesday — surpassing Monday’s record to post the new biggest daily increase since the virus was detected late last year […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte stressed that there is no local transmission so far of the novel coronavirus in the country as the two positive cases so far were Chinese citizens who came from Wuhan City, the virus epicenter. “Isa lang ang namatay sa coronavirus. Imported naman. Hindi galing dito,” he said in a press briefing at past 9 p.m. Monday, Feb. 3, 2020. The President noted that the two deaths so far […]
by Dan Martin / LAN Lianchao Agence France Presse Chinese stocks collapsed Monday with Shanghai’s index posting its biggest single-day drop since 2015 — and hundreds of firms plunging the maximum 10 percent — as panic set in over China’s coronavirus epidemic. Monday was the first time in more than a week that Chinese investors were able to react to a viral outbreak that has now killed more people than the 2002-03 SARS outbreak, […]
(Eagle News) – The 74 persons who have been traced to have had contact with the Chinese couple from Wuhan City who have travelled to Dumaguete City and Cebu have been advised to undergo “self-quarantine” for 14 days, and not to make contacts even with their family members as a precaution. The Department of Health revealed that the 74 have also been advised to isolate themselves even from family members. “As of today, mayroon na […]
AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France (AFP) — Thirty six people aboard an evacuation flight from China that landed in France on Sunday showed symptoms of the coronavirus, which has killed more than 360 people, Health Minister Agnes Buzyn said. In all, 254 people arrived in France from the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the deadly virus was first detected, on the second such flight. “About 20 people who presented symptoms have stayed on the tarmac” at Istres […]
by Jing Xuan Teng and Beiyi Seow Agence France Presse BEIJING, China (AFP) — China’s death toll from a new coronavirus jumped above 360 on Monday to surpass the number of fatalities of its SARS crisis two decades ago, with dozens of people dying in the epicentre’s quarantined ground-zero. The 57 confirmed new deaths was the single-biggest increase since the virus was detected late last year in the central city of Wuhan, where it […]
(Eagle News) – Persons under investigation (PUIs) for the 2019 novel coronavirus in the country have reached 80, with 30 of them having negative test results for the virus, according to the Department of Health. In its regular press briefing on Monday, Feb. 3, the DOH said that of the remaining 50 PUIs, only two so far have tested positive for the virus. They are the 38-year old Chinese woman from Wuhan who was […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The Philippines has reported the first death outside China in the virus epidemic that has killed more than 300 people and spread to 24 nations. The 44-year-old Chinese man who died in the Philippines was from Wuhan, the city that has been ground-zero for the epidemic. Here is what we know — and don’t know — about him: Where he visited The man and a 38-year-old Chinese woman also from Wuhan, […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States military will provide accommodation for 1,000 people if they need to be quarantined because of the deadly novel coronavirus, the Department of Defense said. Several facilities each capable of housing at least 250 people in individual rooms will be made available until February 29, the department said in a statement. The US is one of a number of countries isolating citizens returning from the center of […]
(Eagle News) — The number of confirmed deaths from the novel coronavirus rose to 305 on Sunday, Feb. 2 — 304 from China, and one in the Philippines, the first outside China where it originated. Total confirmed cases meanwhile rose to 14,599 — most of which are in China at 14,422. Additional confirmed cases were also reported in various countries, with Britain, Russia and Sweden confirming their first nCoV-2019 infections this weekend. With the […]
by Issam AHMED Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US said Friday it was declaring a public health emergency and temporarily banning the entry of foreign nationals who had traveled to China over the past two weeks to contain the spread of a deadly new virus. Sweeping new restrictions will also be imposed on American citizens, with those returning from the province at the disease’s epicenter placed in facilities for mandatory […]
