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TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Ten more people on a cruise ship off Japan have tested positive for the new coronavirus, local media said Thursday, raising the number of infections detected on the boat to 20. Japanese authorities have tested 273 people among the approximately 3,700 passengers and crew on the ship after a man who got off the boat last month in Hong Kong tested positive for the new strain. The new cases were reported […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — China’s ambassador to France on Wednesday slammed as “shameful” the decision by Hong Kong medical workers to strike, accusing them of putting lives at risk in the midst of a deadly coronavirus outbreak. Hundreds of medical staff in Hong Kong walked off the job on Monday, demanding that the semi-autonomous territory completely seal its border with mainland China to stop the spread of the virus, which has claimed nearly 500 lives […]
by Dan Martin BEIJING, China (AFP) — Authorities in China warned Wednesday they faced a severe shortage of hospital beds and equipment needed to treat a growing number of patients stricken by the new coronavirus, as cities far from the epicenter tightened their defenses. Central Hubei province reported 3,156 new infections, its biggest single-day jump in the outbreak that has spiraled into a global health emergency with cases reported in over 20 countries. Among those […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — The new coronavirus that emerged in a Chinese market at the end of last year has killed at least 490 people and spread around the world. The latest figures from China show there are more than 24,300 people infected in the country. Outside mainland China, there have been more than 240 infections reported in around two dozen places. There have also been two deaths, one in the Philippines and the other […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — The number of confirmed fatalities from China’s coronavirus outbreak rose to at least 560, after authorities in hardest-hit Hubei province reported 70 new deaths on Thursday. In its daily update, the health commission in Hubei also confirmed another 2,987 new cases. That puts the national total at more than 27,300, based on numbers previously issued by the central government. The epidemic, which has spiraled into a global health emergency, is believed […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Hong Kong’s flagship carrier Cathay Pacific is asking its entire workforce to take up to three weeks of unpaid leave, its CEO announced Wednesday, as the airline faces a crisis in the wake of the new coronavirus outbreak. The request lays bare desperate times at Cathay, which was hammered last year by months of political chaos and protests in Hong Kong and is now being further hurt by the […]
(Eagle News) – A 60-year old Chinese woman who had travelled to Cebu and Bohol is the country’s third positive 2019-novel coronavirus case, the Department of Health announced on Wednesday, Feb. 5. Health Undersecretary Eric Domingo said the patient tested negative for samples taken on Jan. 24 and was thus allowed to go back to China, but that they recently tested a sample taken on Jan. 23 from the patient which tested positive. By […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States evacuated more than 300 more people on two new flights out of Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the fast-spreading new coronavirus, the State Department said Tuesday. The two flights left Wuhan on Tuesday US time after the passengers were screened, a State Department official said. The official said that the United States has now brought home more than 500 passengers on three fights. A first flight, with […]
BALIKPAPAN, Indonesia (AFP) — Two Indonesian women who allegedly posted misinformation online about the deadly coronavirus have been arrested, police said, as they warned dozens of hoaxes were being rapidly shared by the country’s millions of internet users. The pair were taken into custody in Balikpapan, a city on Borneo island, in the past few days after separately posting rumors on their social media accounts that a local resident was infected and undergoing treatment. Indonesia […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — At least 10 people on a cruise ship quarantined off the coast of Japan have tested positive for the new coronavirus, Japan’s health minister said on Wednesday. Japan quarantined the vessel carrying 3,711 people and was testing those onboard for the virus after a former passenger was diagnosed with the illness after disembarking in Hong Kong. Health Minister Katsunobu Kato told reporters that specimens were collected from more than 200 people […]
by Laurent THOMET BEIJING, China (AFP) –The number of people infected in China by the coronavirus outbreak jumped on Wednesday to nearly 500, after Hong Kong reported its first death from the disease and millions more in China were ordered to stay indoors. The confirmed toll in mainland China rose to 490 after hardest-hit Hubei province reported 65 more people had died — the biggest single-day tally since the first fatalities emerged last month. More […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States is working with a pharmaceutical company to develop a treatment for the 2019 Novel Coronavirus, using a class of drugs that has boosted survival rates among Ebola patients, officials said Tuesday. The partnership between the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Regeneron will develop monoclonal antibodies to fight the infection, a different line of treatment to the antiretrovirals and flu drugs that have also emerged […]
