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BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP ) — Thai health authorities on Friday said they would not order the compulsory quarantine of visitors from four countries hit hard by a coronavirus, as the kingdom struggles to balance health fears with the needs of its flatlining economy. The holidays of possibly tens of thousands of people were cast into doubt on Tuesday when the health minister insisted a quarantine of all entrants from nine countries including China — its […]
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AFP) — Cameroon has confirmed its first case of the novel coronavirus, a French national who arrived in the capital Yaounde in February, the government said on Friday. The man, 58, has been placed in isolation in a hospital, the health ministry said in a statement. In sub-Saharan Africa, Senegal has registered four cases, all foreign nationals, and South Africa and Nigeria have one case each since the outbreak emerged in December in […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — The Netherlands has recorded its first death in the novel coronavirus outbreak, health officials said on Friday. “An 86-year-old man with COVID-19 who was admitted to the Ikazia hospital in Rotterdam has died,” the National Institute for Public Health (RIVM) said, referring to the disease caused by the virus. “This is the first patient in the Netherlands to die of the coronavirus,” the RIVM said, adding that the source of […]
VATICAN (AFP) — The Vatican on Friday reported its first coronavirus case, saying it had suspended outpatient services at its health clinic after a patient tested positive for COVID-19. The clinic inside the tiny city-state — which has some 1,000 residents — will be deep cleaned, while the emergency room will remain open, spokesman Matteo Bruni told AFP. The patient tested positive on Thursday. The clinic is used by priests, residents and employees — including […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — An adviser to Iran’s foreign minister who took part in the 1979 US embassy hostage crisis has died from coronavirus, the official IRNA news agency reported. Hossein Sheikholeslam, “a veteran and revolutionary diplomat” died late Thursday, IRNA said. Iran has been scrambling to contain the rapid spread of coronavirus which so far has infected 3,513 people and killed at least 107 people in the Islamic republic. Six of those who died […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Health (DOH) on Friday, March 6, formed five separate teams to do extensive contact tracing for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) after it has confirmed two more positive cases, including a Filipino who has no travel history outside the country. Aside from the contact tracing for the two Filipinos with COVID-19, the DOH teams will also trace the persons who may have had contact with three foreign nationals – a […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Reusable cups are in vogue for reducing waste but are no longer welcome at Starbucks cafes over fears of the coronavirus, the coffee chain announced. “We are pausing the use of personal cups and ‘for here’ ware in our stores,” executive vice president Rossann Williams said in a statement Wednesday, adding that Starbucks would honor their 10-cent discounts for customers who arrive with their own cup even if they won’t […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China reported 30 more deaths from the new coronavirus outbreak on Friday, with fresh infections rising for a second straight day and 16 new cases imported from overseas. In total 3,042 people have died from the disease in China, the National Health Commission said, with another 143 cases, up from 139 in the previous day. Over 80,500 people have now been infected in mainland China, which has imposed a series of […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Seoul threatened to retaliate Friday over what it called Tokyo’s “irrational” plan to quarantine arrivals from South Korea over the coronavirus outbreak, turning the scientific issue into a diplomatic row. The two countries have close economic ties and are both major US allies, democracies and market economies faced with a rising China and nuclear-armed North Korea. But their relationship continues to be heavily affected by Japan’s colonial rule of the […]
SARAVEJO, Bosnia (AFP) — Bosnia reported on Thursday its first confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, in a man who recently traveled to Italy and his child. “It is a middle-aged man who worked in Italy from where he returned in late February,” Alen Seranic, the health minister of Bosnia’s Serb-run half, told reporters. The patient lives in the northwestern region of Banja Luka where he was hospitalized and is held in isolation, the minister […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent a personal letter to “comfort” South Koreans fighting the novel coronavirus epidemic just a day after his sister condemned Seoul as a “frightened dog barking”, the South’s presidential office said Thursday. Pyongyang has imposed strict restrictions and closed its borders to try to prevent an outbreak and insists it has not had a single case of the novel coronavirus which emerged in the […]
THIMPHU, Bhutan (AFP) — The isolated Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has reported its first case of the coronavirus after a US tourist tested positive, the prime minister said Friday. The tiny, land-locked country, famous for measuring Gross National Happiness has emerged as a popular tourist destination in recent years. But the government immediately shut borders to foreign visitors for two weeks in an effort to limit the impact of a disease that has wreaked havoc […]
