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HONG KONG, China (AFP) — All pets of people in Hong Kong infected with the coronavirus will be quarantined, with one dog already in isolation, the city’s authorities said Friday. The move is the first reported case anywhere in the world of a government quarantining pets over the outbreak and was prompted by a positive test in the pet of an infected patient. The canine has been placed in quarantine for 14 days as […]
(Eagle News) – A Panama-flagged cargo vessel that came from China and misrepresented its date of departure there is now being investigated by the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) for the possible filing of criminal charges. Coast Guard Commandant, Admiral Joel S Garcia has ordered the probe of Panama-flagged cargo vessel “MV Harmony 6” after its captain allegedly declared false information of its port clearance details amid intensified maritime security measures against 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). […]
US health officials on Friday reported a third case of the new coronavirus transmitted to a person who did not travel overseas or come in contact with anyone known to be ill, indicating the disease was spreading in the country. Authorities said the new case concerned a person living in the western state of Oregon. The adult patient, who has been hospitalized, was known to have had contact with people at an elementary school. Oregon […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — A growing number of countries affected; a black week for the world’s stock exchanges; numerous events cancelled. Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis, whose risk assessment was on Friday classed by the World Health Organization (WHO) at the highest level. – First in sub-Saharan Africa – The new coronavirus has infected 84,117 people and killed 2,870 around the world, according to an AFP toll based on official sources […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea confirmed 594 more coronavirus cases on Saturday, the biggest increase to date for the country and taking the national total to 2,931 infections with three additional deaths. More than 90 percent of the new cases were in Daegu, the centre of the country’s outbreak, and its neighbouring North Gyeongsang province, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said in a statement. Three women in the Daegu […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — Iran on Friday reported eight new deaths from coronavirus, taking its overall toll to 34, as the number of infections jumped again in the Islamic republic, among the worst-hit countries. An additional 143 cases have been detected over the past 24 hours, raising the total number of confirmed infections to 388, health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said. It is the highest number of new cases for a single day since […]
(Eagle News) — At least 11 South Korean tourists from Daegu City who came to Boracay island are now being monitored by local health officials. The tourists arrived at the Kalibo International Airport on Feb. 25, a day before the Philippine government announced the travel restrictions on certain parts of South Korea due to the rising number of virus infections there. Aside from them, there are 26 Korean tourists from Daegu City who are […]
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) — Two South Africans were contaminated by the new coronavirus while serving as crew members aboard a cruise ship that was quarantined for three weeks in Japan, officials said Friday. The pair, the first South Africans confirmed to have the virus, are being cared for in Japan but they do not show symptoms of the illness linked to COVID-19, South Africa’s health ministry said. The government was informed by Tokyo […]
VATICAN CITY (AFP) — Catholic Church’s Pope Francis postponed his official appointments Friday and was working from home, the Vatican said, a day after cancelling a scheduled appearance at mass because of “a mild ailment”. Francis, 83, had appeared earlier in the week to be suffering from a cold. He was seen blowing his nose and coughing during the Ash Wednesday service, and his voice sounded hoarse. He celebrated morning mass as usual and […]
by Celia Lebur and Emmanuel Akinwotu, with Emmanuel Anule in Abuja Agence France Presse LAGOS, Nigeria (AFP) — Residents of Nigeria’s economic hub Lagos scrambled for hygiene products Friday, after the chaotic megacity of 20 million announced the first confirmed case of new coronavirus in sub-Saharan Africa. Health Minister Osagie Ehanire said in a statement overnight that the infected person was an Italian citizen who flew in from Milan, at the heart of Europe’s […]
(Eagle News) – Cases of the highly infectious coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in South Korea have now reached more than 2,300, with the increase of more than 570 cases reported on Friday, Feb. 28, 2020 – the highest jump so far in a single day outside of China. According to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC), the confirmed COVID-19 cases in South Korea has now hit a total of 2,337. There were […]
(Eagle News) – Five Filipino repatriates from the MV Diamond Princess have so far exhibited symptoms of the coronavirus disease (COVID-2019) and have been brought to a referral hospital for isolation and appropriate medical management, according to the Department of Health (DOH). Of the three who had been earlier brought to the hospital, two have so far tested negative, while the other one still has to await his test results from the Research Institute […]
